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Mar.28.2009
I look out my kitchen window just in time to watch a cactus wren fly toward a small saguaro cactus and then land on it, quite safely. It always amazes me to see this, and I wonder, every time, how does the bird know how to land without getting hurt?
Without thinking it, this line is in my...
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Mar.08.2009
I picked my son up from his baseball practice yesterday. I had sat there and watched his practice for a bit seething inside. My son had gotten the very short end of the stick this baseball season due to little league politics and fathers coaching sons to make sure they make a team. I read a...
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Feb.20.2009
I am working on a new novel which may be read on my member page entitled "Zoë..." It is a quirky fiction that uses a comedic narrator to infuse life lessons and morals into the story that follows the life of a girl born with perfect genetics. It is similar to Pobby and Dingan. Do you...
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Feb.18.2009
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” ~ Martin Fischer
Early morning is usually my best time of the day. It is in the first couple of hours after I wake up that interesting thoughts pierce through the fiber of my awareness as needles sharpened by the...
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Feb.11.2009
I am thirty nine today! Today is my birthday. I think birthdays are very special. This is the day you were introduced into the world. This is the day that your seed was planted firmly in the earth's ground. On this day, the watering of your seed needed to begin so your seed would grow and turn...
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Dec.20.2008
It´s late Saturday afternoon here in this corner of the world, and earlier today my husband and I were wondering what movie we could watch with the kids, that would make us think of Christmas-related issues. That´s when my husband suggested E.T.
I confess I tilted my head to the right, like my dog...
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Dec.08.2008
Whenever I'm around friends or family who complain about how tough things are, how nothing's what it used to be, how the quality of life has diminished and life itself seems almost futile, I'm at times jolted to a higher standard of life appreciation by some immediate life-threatening event....
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Nov.30.2008
This Thanksgiving we combined forces with my cousins Kim and Diane, as we always do. Some years we host and some years they host, but Bill always makes the meat (the turkey and ham) and I make pies, and Kim and Diane make all the many trimmings and more pies, and my parents bring salad and bread...
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Nov.30.2008
After deciding to participate in NaNoWriMo 2008, I picked up Chris Baty's book 'No plot? No Problem!' and read up at the NaNoWriMo web site. Chris said that the "someday" to write a novel was today and that you might as well just give yourself a goal and sit down and write. It didn't...
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Nov.21.2008
Joanne was talking about collecting on her blog, and I thought I’d dig out my collection of seaballs to share. Besides having a strong attachment to woods, i.e. being a huge collector of primitive wood ( note my 100 plus year dough bowl ) these nautical balls fascinate me---their...
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