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Camille Jay Snow, July 5, 1912 to March 17, 2014
I missed my Wednesday posting last week because, honestly, I had more important things to attend to. My grandmother, Camille Jay Snow, died the morning of March 17, 2014. She spent 101 years on this earth, and while I know she was ready to go, there are a lot of us who are going to…
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A post inspired by a misreading of a random blog post idea generator
So I was playing around with a blog post idea generator and misread the suggested topic as: “The best chainsaw gas stations.” Which confused me for a moment, because how is a chainsaw gas station different from your regular gas station? Then I went back and reread, and was a bit disappointed, because you have to…
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A shortcut response to jerkbag commenters on the web
In general, I avoid online comment threads and message boards, except for a few well-moderated spaces, because: rage, alternating with despair over the human race. But there are times when the reptilian part of my brain feels the urge to respond to these jerkbag commenters and their non-logic. Of late, this has been happening most…
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2/17
If I’d been better prepared, I would have posted this on Monday. If on Monday I hadn’t been busy doing fun stuff, including adding 2500 words to my WIP word count and ignoring taxes, I would have had time to write a more thought-provoking/entertaining/inspiring/whatever piece to post today. But instead, I give you 3 People…
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Stating the obvious
I missed my regular Wednesday posting. This is because I spent much time groaning, as approximately 80% of my inhalations caused a sharp pain on the right side of my chest. (I also binge-watched many episodes of Veronica Mars, which was somewhat masochistic, as I laughed at many of the jokes, which also caused pain.) But…
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Puss in Boots
One of my writing goals for this year is to practice more short fiction (at least one short story per quarter). So I figured I’d participate in Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: Fairy Tales Remixed. I chose “Puss in Boots.” For my subgenre, the random number generator chose “superhero.” The result follows. Puss in Boots…
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On hope
I’ve been thinking, off and on, about hope. It’s considered buoyant, uplifting. Hope raises us up out of the pit, the anticipation of a better tomorrow, if we can just make it through today. So it’s interesting that the related word aspire means, literally, “to breathe upon.” Not, say, “to breathe upward,” which I suppose…
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Can’t talk. Writing.
Or rather, can’t write here; writing elsewhere. In lieu of a real post, here is a picture of my dog.
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Get baked
So I’ve been following Miss Snark’s First Victim since, I think, close to her blog’s conception. She is one of those people who is made of awesome. And she’s got an awesome contest coming up: the 2013 Baker’s Dozen, which is detailed here. It is my goal to have my ms. done so that I…
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New host; site apparently not broken (anymore)…
OK, so I have a new hosting company and am (I think) successfully transferred after 48 hours-plus of kicking myself for not testing all this beforehand, and having various iterations of a 404 page come up on my site, or not at the home page but everywhere else. But let us not speak of the…