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Aug.19.2009
As a writer there are many things I don't do very well. The foremost of which is my typing. I'm dreadful. I can't even classify it as a hunt and peck situation. It's more of a hunt, get up, grab a beer, run to the back yard and turn on the sprinklers, take a leak, saunter back and peck. Hunt, run...
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Aug.17.2009
When she handed me the envelope she was vibrating. She gets that way sometimes. In it was my birthday card and she knew it was a classic. She found one that summed it up and would fill in the blanks. Most of all, she knew it would make me laugh.
Her eyes danced between my...
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Aug.15.2009
I am a notoriously poor finisher. Most every thing I do I do well for ninety percent of the job and then find the remainder too tedious or boring. Whether it is a kitchen remodel, motorcycle repair, writing project, or a walk around the block, I bail at the end. Kitty used to kid me (only half...
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Aug.08.2009
I’m a lousy fisherman.
I don’t know what rod to use for my situation. I pull out a deep-sea rig when I fish in a Georgian lake and would use a fly pole off a head boat out of Redondo Beach harbor. The tip action doesn’t matter to me and I can’t imagine a fish on the other...
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Aug.03.2009
Pending – preposition
while awaiting; until.
in the period before the decision or conclusion of.
remaining undecided; awaiting decision or settlement; unfinished.
About to take place; impending.
Moderation – noun
the...
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Jul.19.2009
My doctor told me that to stand a chance, I needed to make some changes.
A chance for what? A modeling career? Olympic athlete? How about an ironman competitor. Not a winner, I’d just like to be one of the guys that limps in just as the light in the sky is taking on that hazy purple hue and...
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Jul.12.2009
The other night I was driving steadily on a south Atlanta highway returning from a long day on the set. The day just seemed to drag on as the director chose to increase our frustration as he asked for take after take. The heat of the day paled in comparison to the interior of the sound stage. The...
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Jun.27.2009
When I see these guys up on the stage with their Martin D-42s and their Breedlove A-25s just picking away and coaxing that rich tonal melody out of that acoustical sound hole into the microphone and onto the waiting audience, my eyes start to water from the I don’t know… the anticipation, the...
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Jun.26.2009
I have always wanted to be a writer. And a photographer, a CEO, a bartender at a refined New York City steakhouse. But since this is a writer’s forum and today the gravitational pull is toward writing, then I stick with the program.
The main reason I never kick started my...
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