Monthly Archives: June 2013

New Words for the Week #3!

Never fear, dear readers – new words are here!  I know that last time, I promised you all a “Battle Plan” for my book, but this week has been all sorts of unexpectedly crazy. At first, I thought I was … Continue reading

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New Words for the Week #2!

I’ve got a “Battle Plan” post coming up (concerning the writing of my book), but considering my procrastinational proclivities are pushing that post’s importance into “tomorrow” (Which, honestly, could be any time in the upcoming week.), I figured I’d at … Continue reading

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It’s Like Dowsing for Accountability!

(In other words, I expect this to have as good of a chance for success.) As a writer, both my biggest motivator (and potentially biggest fear) is accountability.  (I suppose that should just say “As me…”, but this is about … Continue reading

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It Helps to Remind Myself…

It helps to occasionally remind myself why I am not actually an artist (you know, as pertains to drawing).  I used to have the patience for sketching way back in high school, but this monstrosity that I attempted here took … Continue reading

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The Introduction of a Stranger

Rarely do I get put in odd situations by complete strangers (not since leaving Facebook, anyway), but a recent would-be comment-poster put me in one today.  Considering there was no way left to me by this person to respond back … Continue reading

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New words for the week!

As I’ve increased my online reading (a decent measure of my offline boredom) about tenfold over the past few months, I’ve happened upon writers with vocabularies just as extensive as mine… much to my utter bewilderment.  There have even been … Continue reading

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How Much would you Kill for?

My online viewing habits tend to be of the “Wiki Walk” variety, so allow me to map out the circuitous path that led me to today’s hypothetical question.  I started by checking the hourly weather on Weather.com for my area … Continue reading

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How the Universe Works… 95% of the Time.

Well, I promised you all an update on the Swamp-Ass/birthday/R.B.B.C. issue, and here it is – My legs no longer stick together. Yes; you heard that correctly.  I now have my very own personal A/C unit in my room here … Continue reading

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Women? READ THIS!!

It’s not often that I read another blogger’s post that strikes such a personal note with me, but this one was it!  I’m not going to overshadow its message with a laborious narrative here, and would even strongly suggest that … Continue reading

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Frontiersman-type Things I’d Like to Do before I’m Unable to Do Them

This just occurred to me (as apparently someone in NYC thinks around sunset [7:15 PM] is the perfect time to be using a circular saw), but there are several frontiersman-type things I would like to do before I’m physically unable … Continue reading

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