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prompt 3: Three Songs and Three Memories
Mozart, Bach, any classical or flamenco guitar, all make me smile; but there are three songs that have special meaning for me. When we were…
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Protected: Prompt 2 : Room With a View
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Writing 101 1st Prompt: Time in a Barrel
I’ve been thinking about investing in a rain barrel. We are currently in the fourth year of a drought and I’m concerned about irrigating my…
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Press Publish, LIVE! (Stream)
On March 28th, I attended the Press Publish conference in Portland. Actually, I viewed the conference on my computer. I must confess I had some…
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Mac Mini Mayhem
My almost year-old Mac Mini hard drive failed last week. It least it had the courtesy to fail before the manufacturer’s one year warranty expired.…
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Winter Rose
I’m not a very effective gardener. Last season both my carrot and lettuce crops failed to thrive, but a series of interesting and exotic weed…
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You can eat an elephant – just take one bite at a time.
Before my husband passed away, we had plans for his office – replace the old carpet with wood flooring, get a new, smaller desk, and…
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Quotes and Memorable Phrases
I’ve always admired authors who can sprinkle their prose with Latin, French, or German phrases without sounding snobbish. This is a skill I have not…
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Destructive, Dysfuntional, Dystopian — Distasteful!
I went to the movies this last weekend to see Paddington. I went, I tell myself, because I am doing research on children’s book characters…
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The Routine! The Routine!
Research tells us our brains deal with the overwhelming amount of information available to it by categorizing that information, often in terms of what is…
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Memorial to a Friend
My best friend and husband of forty-eight years passed away unexpectedly on September 2, 2014. He was a kind, gentle man with a sharp intellect. …
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Relax – It’s Not Real
I tell myself that I don’t watch “reality” television shows with their fake drama and concocted conflict. After all, I have avoided all episodes of…
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