• Fat Bodies, Thin Lives

    \”It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich live, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following you deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient, and thin. Katherine Hathaway. Funny, but Hathaway here shares the same last name of one of the great…

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  • and the hardest thing about getting up at 4:30 in the morning is not the actual getting up, but the going to bed at a reasonable hour. The whole world seems to be conspiring against it. There are meetings, soccer games, etc the rest of the week. Which in themselves are fine and dandy things,…

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  • I know where mine is…it\’s still in bed sleeping.But since my life has been declared a disaster area, the only time I can find for writing lately is either at four thirty or midnight. For some reason, I am actually more creative in the morning lately. Midnight, the only thing I want to to is…

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  • A quote I can relate to…

    The trouble with being punctual is that nobody\’s there to appreciate it. — Franklin P. Jones When I was about sixteen, my father gave me a watch for Christmas, although he was quite adamant that it wouldn\’t do any good. He said I didn\’t need a watch, I needed a calendar and a keeper. I…

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  • Today, while my third graders were taking a \”practice\” version of the standardized test that will decide their futures, I glanced up and saw where I want to spent the rest of my life. It was printed right there on the stack of maps hanging above the chalk board….Rand McNally\’s Simplified World. Doesn\’t it sound…

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  • If you read the article referenced above, you\’ll see it\’s a study by cardiologists. They were studying the effects of a low calorie diet on the heart and longevity. Not a temporary, weight loss low calorie diet, but a lifestyle of eating well balanced nutrient dense food, but less of it. Like 1400 to 2000…

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  • Quote of the Day

    You know it\’s really bad when the only reason you log onto your very own blog is that you want to read the quote of the day. As if the eight that get emailed straight to me each day aren\’t enought. I am a quote junkie. I started a word document a few years ago…

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  • Lesson learned. Sunday\’s aren\’t good nights to plan on blogging. If someone were paying me and it were a job, I suppose I could make it more of a priority. But it\’s the NFL playoffs. The final feast of football before the famine known as basketball and hockey season. And the Olympics. I am probably…

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  • No, I promise, this won\’t spur on another blog. I have my 4.8 blogs to keep up with. I don\’t write enough on the one\’s I have, don\’t need any more, thank you kindly. But I am experiencing a Restful Waters feeling of peace. I\’ve been rewriting a huge chunk of the WWII book and…

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  • Yep. I couldn\’t even keep my resolution to blog on Sunday\’s and Tuesday\’s but I found time to start another blog. Oh well. It\’s a place to store my funny spam stories. And put things out for one of my online groups. But if you want to look, feel free. I have finally figured out…

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