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  • Tuesday Tool Time

    Today I celebrate the most important tool in my world right now. My Hamilton Beach drip coffee maker. It is what is saving me this week ( I know, it’s only Tuesday.) But someone in the house had a cold last week and I have seemed to have caught it. (Really, only a cold, his…

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  • A Sunday Story

    Happy weekend! My prompts this week were: A coat-check girl, gets jilted at the altar, and a novelty alarm clock. So here we go: Fact Check Girl Clara’s alarm clock had the most annoying bell she had ever heard. She may have noticed it before this morning, but today it was more obnoxious than usual.…

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  • Seven Superb Owls on a Saturday

    It’s the weekend we all gather around our screens and worship the Superb Owl. With snacks, right?  As a university employee, this personal essay was a gut punch. Also you should totally check out Roxanne Gay’s The Audacity. The Miami Herald takes aim at the idea that domestic violence increases on Super Bowl Sunday. “Quit…

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  • The Art of the Short Story – James Baldwin

    I did not plan to begin Black History Month with James Baldwin, but it is a fitting beginning, and I may skip around the book (The Art of the Short Story – Gioia/Gwynn) and cover the stories of Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison this month. This week belongs to James Baldwin, though,…

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  • Monthly Review

    So, the joke around the internet is, does 2021 have any months besides January? It was quite tumultuous, and let’s not even talk about Wednesdays. (Attack on our Capitol, Impeachment, Inauguration, and Revenge of the Redditors all were Wednesdays. I am seriously considering taking Wednesdays off for the rest of the year.) While January felt…

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  • Seven on a Saturday

    Happy weekend! I am finishing up my entry for the short story challenge, but will still have something for you here tomorrow. What I read this week:o Not everyone likes social media. And Cal Newport finds them. Why Everyone Should Adopt These 3 Minimalist Principles | Abundant Life with Less by Rachelle Crawford. I’m not a big one…

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  • Mini Book Review

    It’s Friday and that means that is it time to pull a writing  book off of my shelf for a mini book review. This week’s book is Ray Bradbury’s Zen and the Art of Writing. In a collection of essays with themes ranging from Buck Rogers to lists of nouns, Bradbury practically gushes his love…

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  • Wednesday Weekly Production Report

    “Fiction does not ‘make it new,’ it makes it felt.” — Matthew Salesses Here at the Story Factory, we value quantity over quality.  More words, more hours, more stories. The goal is 52 stories at the end of the year. So far, we are on target. Which, I know, isn’t much to say at this…

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  • Tuesday, Tool Time

    If it’s Tuesday, it must be Tool Time. Sadly, there is not the same alliteration en français, where it is Mardi de l’outil.  Nope, not the same. But it does sound pretty, as do most things French.  Today’s Tool: The World’s Best Pencil. How do I know it is the World’s Best Pencil? Glad you…

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  • Mini Book Review – BIG Purple Mommy

    Happy Friday. Or https://beachhouseair.blogspot.com/2018/11/three-kids-in-trench-coat.html Hard to believe we are halfway through the first month of 2021, and to quote someone on Twitter, I’m starting to believe 2021 is just 3 2020’s in a trench coat. But time is moving forward, as it is supposed to do, at least in the real world.  And in my…

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