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Jan.14.2013 Specks January 14 Specks Spectacles are for specks; tiny things that must be watched. Commotion is nothing but a congregation of minutia with an audience. How many small things do I strain my eyes to see; then seek help to pursue further? Some of these...	Sep.08.2012 Talk About a Steep Decline My new glasses keep sliding down my nose.
Jun.16.2012 Sorry Weird Al Weird Al Yankovic is known for his song paradies. I especially like the send up of Greg Kihn's song, Our Love's In Jeopardy. Weird Al sings, "I lost on Jeopardy, baby." Sitting here writing and typing, I took a break, stretched, swigged some water and prepared to continue. Where the hell were...	Dec.06.2010 Taking Characters to a Reading. There's something paradoxical about the process that happens after a book comes out. Writing is a private, isolated, often lonely profession. No one knows that a passage was punctuated by two trips to the refrigerator, that one section flowed, that another was rewritten five times and resulted in...
Sep.07.2010 Do You See What I See? I called my sister not too long ago and when she answered with her strawberry sweet, “Hi-eeeee,” I wasted no time and said, “Quick! Look on the back of your leg in the crease area, like kinda behind your knee.” “Yeah, I’m there–what?” “Do you see big poking out squiggly veins?,” I panted. “Oh yeah...	Sep.25.2009 Optical Illusions September 25 OPTICAL ILLUSIONS “Like my new frames?” I ask my sponsor. “Who wrote your prescription?” “Oh, the lenses aren’t new, just the frames,” I reply. “You want to be seen differently but you want to see things the same old way. My question still stands. Who wrote you the script for...
Nov.02.2008 The Novel Idea of Writing a Novel in a Month There are no accidents as they say. So it is no accident that I got an e-mail from Red Room about NaNoWriMo after a friend and I discussed how we need to make our writing a priority. We are both two rather busy people who live in two different and rather busy cities. As we had this discussion via...