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Of Mugs and Men

Greetings from the place where winter does not end! I guess we are still in Lion-mode. I am really ready for the Lamb-mode that March always promises. Until then, I’ll just cozy up and keep writing. How do you get through the long winter days? Coffee is high on my list. I think a lot […]

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Blogging from A to Z Challenge

The Blogging Gods must be crazy – I’m attempting the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge once again! Why, you ask? Or, as one of my friends reacted, “Noooooooooooooooo!” Writers, when you ask them why they write, say they cannot NOT write. I think author Sara Gruen recently said it the best: “The only […]

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C-O-F-F-E-E

  As part of L’Aussie Writer’s APPRECIATING THE ZEALOTRY Challenge, I am re-posting one of my favorites from the April A-Z Challenge. Pour yourself a cup, sit back and enjoy! 38 seconds. That’s the time it takes from pushing the button on my Keurig to taking my first morning sip. I know this because I […]

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Noodles (inspired by Nate)

I’m thinking my earlier N post was a bit of a cop-out. It was a loong weekend, folks. Preceded by an even looonger week of “spring vacation” with various children not belonging to me running through my house. Easing back into work mode this morning, I got an email from one of the road crew […]

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Ni! And Neee-wom (and other sacred words)

Wow. N had me flummoxed. Not sure why. I reached out to my friends on Facebook for some prompts, and received many varied and certainly very worthy N words. Here are just a few (read: numerous) suggestions: natural, nagging, nimbus clouds, Noticias! naughty, night time, noogie, Nick Tahou, Nickelback (worst band ever), novels, NY, numbers, […]

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MEAT

Yeah, feel free to click on the link and listen to 1/3 of moe.’s 40+ minute monster instrumental ode to MEAT as you read my M post. (Their guitarist was a vegan for many years at the point when they recorded this song, btw.) This is a born-again meat-eater’s story. Or a recovering vegetarian’s story. […]

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Library Lions

It’s National Library Week, April 8th – April 14th! So perfectly fitting to give my “L” love to those lovable literary lions that flank the regal steps of the New York Public Library. Have you ever seen one of these signs on the Thruway? Ever wonder what spot in New York City determines this mileage? […]

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What Writers KNOW

In writing, there is that oft-uttered phrase “Write what you know”.  Many fiction writers start out in the cozy comfort zone of doing just that; looking within themselves and their body of experience to create compelling, realistic material. I think back to my teen years, banging out stories on my parents’ old Underwood typewriter. I […]

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Idiopathic

Idiopathic: an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause. From Greek ἴδιος, idios (one’s own) + πάθος, pathos (suffering), it means approximately “a disease of its own kind”. “A high-flown term to conceal ignorance” – Isaac Asimov “From the Latin, meaning: ‘We’re idiots ’cause we can’t figure […]

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Helium (or the beginning of my lifelong affair with books)

I had a handful of other ideas for H and then out of the blue…floated Helium. Here is my helium story, and how it helped me fall in love with books and reading. I grew up in the 1970s, back before helium balloons got their bad rap of having an ecological footprint the size of […]

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