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\”The experts are always telling us to \’Listen to your body!\’ But if I listened to my body, I\’d live on toffee pops and port wine. Don\’t tell me to listen to my body-it\’s trying to turn me into a blob.\”-Roger Robinson, New Zealand masters runner and author Spring Break is drawing near in our…
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\”When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.\”– Isak Dinesen I love Isak Dinesen. In her short story, \”The Young Man with the Carnation,\” here is a conversation between the Lord and…
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10. No annoying phone calls from irate Republicans who want me to vote for their candidates in the primary Saturday. I can\’t vote in the primary anyway, I want to be able to sign the petition for my favorite independent candidate for governor. 9.The children are sleeping all snug in their beds. 8. Email is…
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There\’s a country song I heard once, \”If I had a nickel for everytime I wanted you back …. I\’d have a dime. One thin dime.\” Lately, if I had a dollar for every piece of spam that has offered me cash, I wouldn\’t need a job. Today\’s offerings, not including Christian Home mortgages (…
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. — Peter Drucker My first thought, a question really, was is this Mr. Drucker of the Green Acres Generl Store fame? I mean the quote is profound, but I could see Sam Drucker saying it. But then I realized that Sam and Peter…
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I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand. –Chinese Proverb The rule of the writer is not to say what we can all say but what we are unable to say. –Anais Nin I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write…
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I think sounds are the hardest thing to describe. I say this, because I\’m trying to describe someone\’s voice in my current book. I can hear this character\’s particular voice in my head, she sounds exactly like one of my dear friends in college. Funny, I haven\’t talked to her in almost twenty years, yet…
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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around…
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Otherwise known as what I will be pondering as I go run this afternoon…. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. — Erica Jong Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing…
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I am starting another full run through of edits of \”Practical Flying\”. My crit group, bless their little hearts, continue to say that my writing is fine, just utterly devoid of emotion. Yeppers. Story of my life there. So, I instigated a two step plan of action. The first step is to read books that…
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