Category: People
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Pain and Stress, Vol. 1
I’d had it. I’d lost my damn mind. My children each have their own rooms. My husband has a 12×20 cave that barely holds all of his stuff. He also has a 2×6 table and associated space in the front room for his small medical things because there’s no room in his Superfund site to…
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I’m Going To Kill Him….
I love him. No, really. I do. Sometimes. Just not when he’s irritating me. Like today. He has a day off and I’m trying to work on something. I’m trying to work on a writing something. It’s a fight scene. This isn’t something you can just rough out and heavily edit later to make it…
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Starting 2019
There’s actual snow on the ground. I live in Colorado, and, sad to say, snow is a rarity anymore. But even an inch of snow on New Year’s Day is lends hope for the coming year. Misplaced hope, perhaps, but hope none the less. 2018 has been an eventful year. Some of it good, some…
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Doubts
Doubts are hard. I mean they are useful, they serve an evolutionary purpose. Doubt makes one give a second, more careful look at something. Doubt gives you reason to move cautiously, maybe take in a few extra details about the situation or your plans. Doubt may have saved an ancestor or two from becoming some…
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Directions?
Have you ever decided to take a long, hard look at your life and *think* about what it is your doing and why and what you are expecting to get out of it? Have you ever noticed that in most movies, the hero doing this manages to sort his/her shit out in a single night…
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My Failure of Words
Most of those of us who write insist that words have the most power. People need words. People can feel through your words. People can live and breathe and love and even have sex using nothing but words. It’s something us writers can get a little smug about. Lately, my world has been turned upside…
