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It’s that time of year again!

Time for delicious holiday foodstuffs? Nope. Time for incessantly repeating carols on retail PA systems? Nope. Time to panic? Maybe.

My friend Lori Luza just posted her Annual Holiday Pre-Rant. This is not the kind of thing people look forward to, is ( Read more... )

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I thought I might make another effort with my blog, so I decided to review a restaurant. I love restaurants. Mostly, I


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I used to pride myself on my “internet solidarity.” Having been “on the internet” since before there was a word for it, I always thought I was just kickin’ it old school or something. I resisted LiveJournal, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. At one point, I used LiveJournal and ( Read more... )

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On a blog I write for called “Get Off My Lawn,” I’m pretty grumpy about Valentine’s Day. But hey, that’s the point of GOML.


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I’m sure I’m opting in for a whole world of pain (and trolling) here. But I can’t help myself. Because this article  came onto my radar today, I read a couple of articles today about Virginia’s ban on gun sales to the mentally ill. That link is to a 2007 Washington Post article. In ( Read more... )

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A writing exercise, that is. Thought I’d take myself for a walk down memory lane. I’d love to hear your thoughts about when/where you were when you decided to do something you love to do, too!

My interest in writing stories began in the first grade, I think. We had to practice our ( Read more... )

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Part 1: They Meet

Ok, Not Really.

Identifying Unhealthy Patterns of Anger and Self Pity

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.    - D.H. Lawrence

I found some of my notes from my posts ( Read more... )