Tag: ponder
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The Word for 2026
This past year has been. . . challenging. Not impossible, not crashing out, just challenging. I did not accomplish as much as I wanted for 2025, but that’s par for the course. 2025’s word was “Try.” I feel I did that. I tried and failed and tried again, learned something, tried again, actually succeeded; tried…
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Brain Not Braining
Why is everything so hard!?!?!?!? I’ll be the first one to say that my subconscious brain will turn every single mouse-turd task that’s out of the ordinary chores list into a free-climb up K2 with no equipment, but now I’m getting pissed about it. And getting pissed about it doesn’t make it any easier to…
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Unloading the Psychological Hoard
My father passed on almost 2 years ago. I’m a bit of a hoarder–tools, boxes, books, string, projects that I just need some time to play with, cool doo-dads; all sorts of things. After my father passed, and my mom had time to grieve, she began to engage in Swedish Death Cleaning. Yes, it’s a…
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This is Bullshit….
So, there’s this totally accurate statistic I read somewhere on the internet a few years back, about the average publishing age of women vs. men. Women publish fictional novels at a later point in life, typically. Not all of them, obviously; just a notable amount. Almost as though the majority of women are taking care…
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In Defense of Whimsy
I’ve always been a little odd. The square peg that almost fits in the round hole, but not quite. When I was a child my oddness marked me out a bit. I wasn’t quite the most unpopular kid in school, but I was definitely on the lower end of the pecking order. This may be…
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IWSG July 2023
Where do your ideas come from? Sometimes, they come from half-remembered dreams. Lately they’ve been coming from documentaries. A short documentary about the history of mythical plants that hunt people and animals is interesting, and then inspires an idea about a story for gathering said plants, and then and thenandthen… Once I was driving home…
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