connections | connections
Mar.28.2013
Since I tend to read several books at the same time, I often notice connections between my reads. It can be little things (the same words or phrases (often unfamiliar to me), similarities in themes, or the same settings, etc.), but because of the oddity of them, they stand out.
My latest...
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Feb.19.2013
We Are All Connected
By Bernadette A. Moyer
We are all connected, we are all more alike than not. In just two days I have heard from more than a dozen readers, readers that wrote to me and connected with me after reading me. They could relate. Some had an alcoholic in the family or strained...
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Jan.24.2013
(I know - you're right behind that preposition!)
If you recognize this little guy, I believe you have some familiarity with Twitter.
We're on most of the social media outlets, so feel free to reach out and touch us.
Here's where you can find me (Michelle Matthews-Calloway):
ASwirlGirl on...
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Jan.21.2013
Another Monday morning.
Can't connect to the company Intranet.
Or the company cloud.
Or the email server.
Chat server.
Called into the first meeting at 6:30.
Others were reporting similar problems.
Just another Monday.
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Jan.01.2013
What was your biggest personal disappointment of 2012?
Maybe not a good thing to dwell on, but for me 2012 was the year I realized that my efforts to reconnect with a childhood friend just weren't going to pay off.
We'd met in the third grade, were terrific pals through the fifth grade, then...
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Nov.25.2012
TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012Mystery Writer Charles Salzberg on Making Connections, Writing Hard Boiled, and Loving LiteratureCharles Salzberg was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel for his book Swann's Last Song. In October he will release the second in the series, called Swann...
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Aug.13.2012
I owe this blog to Cindy Kloosterman and her remembrance of a dot in her life, her Aunt Edna. Cindy was inspired to think about the dots after reading Bill Gates' book. Now I've been thinking about dots and will need to go read the book as well.
Thinking more about dots this morning as I sat in...
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Aug.12.2012
I've continued to think about dots and connections and about efforts to save money through austerity measures.
I remember once reading that the true mark of greatness is putting out the effort and making it look easy. We've all known or witnessed times and places where we witnessed someone do...
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Jul.16.2012
We celebrated my wife's birthday today. I treated her and a number of friends to dinner at a little Italian restaurant in downtown Ashland. We ordered a bottle of local Claret for the wine drinkers along with an appetizers from local sources - goat cheese, buffalo mozz, blue cheese, grapes, roasted...
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Jul.10.2012
It almost slipped by unnoticed. I realized yesterday that it's been one year since I joined the Red Room Community.
Red Room has given me so many gifts. It helped me to develop the discipline of writing everyday (with only few exceptions.) And I believe that I have become a better writer; learning...
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