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- Preparing for Rotator Cuff Surgery, Part 2
- Preparing for Rotator Cuff Surgery
- My New Succulent Garden – Part 1
- Titling
- Describe It or Sell It?
- Facebook Is Cooler than You Think
- Suicide
- When Backwards Is Forwards
- Helping Others Succeed
- It Takes All Kinds
- How Priorities Change
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- My Life Passed Before Me, But I Wasn’t Dead
- Suffering
- Chopping Wood
- Cleaning House – Dr’s Orders
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- Invisible Servant
- What Do You Do
- What Does Anyone Know
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- Timing: NOT Everything
- Picking Up Where You Left Off
- Look! Look!
- Why ‘Affordable Housing’ Fails
- Computer Backup Hell
- In Search of Nectar
- Fake Cowgirl
- One Things that Changed My Life
- Ghost Gifts
- Birthday Pain
- Missing Thereness
- Awaiting Profundity
- Smart Superstition
- Willing to Change Your Mind About Islam?
- Happy Birthday Mother
- Feckless
- The Parental “Conversation”
- A New Wrinkle I Can Live With
- Chasing the Dragon
- TSA – the Most Hated Part of Freedom to Travel
Category Archives: Blog
Crunching Leaves
What do you like to do on Thanksgiving – besides visit with family and friends, and eat? (Cooking is mandatory for some of us!) One of my favorite memories is the after-lunch/dinner hike. If you’re lucky, it takes you through … Continue reading
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Giving Thanks
Wouldn’t it be fun to see how long a list of things we’re thankful for we could make? Could you reach 10 without any effort? How about 100? If your life depended upon it, could you make a list that … Continue reading
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Does Your Cat Know You’re a Writer?
As I went outside around dawn, I heard a rustle in the brush, then deliberate footfalls moving away from me. Turning toward the sound, I quietly walked a few steps, listening. The crunches of leaves were close together…could be a … Continue reading
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Deep Words
There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith
Words as Skin
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. ~ ~ ~Oliver … Continue reading
Words Alive
The Dickinson children; Emily on the left. A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. ~ ~ ~Emily Dickinson
Washing Windows to See
The grapefruit is troubling me. The beautiful one the gentleman gave me Sunday for washing his windows. At first he held it toward me and gestured that I should come in and share it with him. “Peel it,” he said, … Continue reading
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Writing Mitzvah
A Mitzvah is the ultimate expression of how Judaism views religion. It’s not a specific time, place, or with a specific thing, when or where or with which one has a relationship with G-d. from Rabbi Dov Schochet Sunday was … Continue reading
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Sustains Your Soul
I haven’t earned huge money from my writing. The fact that I’ve earned more than all the local writers I know (and there are many), except those who’ve won multi-book deals, keeps me going, seeking to earn a living and … Continue reading
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I Oughta Write a Book
82% of Americans plan to write a book someday. –from a talk by Mark David Gerson on September 6, 2008.
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