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Connection
At the cabin, after the barbeque. Kids want to chill and Handsome One (my husband) and I are up for a walk.
It's dark out. Pine trees disappear into the night. Yellow squares of light peek out of houses tucked away from the road. We walk down the slope, around the curves, keeping to the left like good pedestrians.
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Confessions of an anal-retentive exerciser
The first in an on-going series . . .
The fact that I even exercise is amazing. This feat is accomplished only because I joined a women's circuit fitness club which has set up the workout for me so that I have to do zero thinking. All the effort I have to put into it is to drive there and get my sorry saggy butt in the door (which is a ( Read more... ) -
The Awkward Years
Junior High sucked.
That's what I remember about seventh and eighth grades. Kids from several different elementary schools converging to be educated in six separate periods a day, with dress down P.E., combination locks and no outdoor recess to speak of, was way too overwhelming for me. Just the concepts of a before and after school snack stand ( Read more... ) -
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GAH! Wee One is away for the week, boss is on vacation, rest of the fam won't be back for a few days . . . perfect time to write, right?
Wrong!
How am I going to get anything done with WriteOnCon?
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The view from here.
Besides writing, I occasionally play with collage art for a creative outlet. This scene is actually a composition of six different pictures. One of the things I'm drawn to in doing this kind of art is making an entirely new landscape out of images from several different sources and playing with perspective.
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heartbreak all around
My Mac Air crashed. Again. It happened in May and I had to have it wiped. They are clearing it again as I write.
GAH!
I still don't know what all I lost the first time. Luckily no writing. But there were pictures that are gone forever now. This time I hadn't saved much on the hard drive, except for a very productive day's worth of revising which has ( Read more... )
