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Mar.09.2009
It's that time of year again. Daylight Saving Time. Spring forward time. Be tired time.
In case you hadn't noticed, I am a very reluctant daylight saving participant. We didn't even have daylight saving in Indiana when I was growing up. I wasn't "exposed" to the insanity until I left the...
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Mar.06.2009
I've been thinking about friends lately. My big 40th birthday bash is this Saturday, a whole 7 days premature. It was a tough choice, celebrating early, going over to the dark side of 40 before my time. But, when it came right down to it, I didn't hem and haw very long over choosing to do it. I'm...
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Mar.04.2009
I've never been much for climbing mountains. Don't get me wrong. I love the great outdoors. I love hiking. I just went about learning to climb mountains all wrong.
I was an undergrad doing an exchange year in Innsbruck, Austria. They warned us to bring hiking boots, but I was a poor undergrad. I...
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Mar.02.2009
A photo is worth a thousand words. What about a damning one, such as the ones to the left and right? Are there an extra few words that go along with self-incrimination???
Okay, okay...it's not as bad as it looks, although it very much looks 70s...I hope.
My husband and I were "in costume....
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Feb.27.2009
I have often heard it said that the mark of a true artist is his/her level of suffering. I scoffed. Artists...suffering for their work?...Come on. They paint. Or write. Or draw. Act. But suffer? Isn't that being a little melodramatic?
Oh, ye of little faith.
You might be a writer if...the act of...
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Feb.25.2009
My oldest daughter got to meet one of the girls I idolized growing up, Nadia Comaneci. She was the first gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect 10 at the Olympics. She even has a gymnastics move named after her, the Comaneci salto (on the uneven bars). And all this by the time she was fourteen. By...
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Feb.23.2009
Spring is in the air, or rather, it was on my front porch. It wasn't looking good either. We'd had a few mild days of 60 degree weather, and it brought out not only the song birds, but also, of course, the bees. Only the one on my front porch wasn't buzzing about. It was laying on its back, legs...
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Feb.20.2009
It's been a long week . So long, I said to my husband yesterday, "Oh, President's Day. Wasn't that two weeks ago?"
Not quite. It was Monday.
Which really brought home another of those odd habits we writers tend to pick up when we're in the thick of a story - forgetfulness.
You might...
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Feb.18.2009
It was a rough Monday at our house this week. We are dealing with the issue of "lying." Man, do I hate this one. It really makes my heart ache having to be the parent.
My father told me the same thing years ago when I went through my short stint as a hardened criminal. I never understood...
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Feb.16.2009
It's President's Day, and now that I am nearly 40, I started wondering why exactly we have a President's Day. What's it good for?
I got to thinking about our democracy, about the field that entranced me for fifteen years of my life while I studied courts, governments, and the will of the people. I...
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Feb.13.2009
A week of skiing has given me a whole new perspective on the idiosyncracies of writers, at least this one. It's amazing where stories show up, and, honestly, what a writer will do for a story.
You might be a writer if, in the face of imminent doom and personal destruction, you'll do anything to...
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Feb.11.2009
You can take the story away from the girl, but you can't take the girl away from the story.
But I have to admit, all this snow has changed the story. I am now hot on the trail of Keystone, Colorado's own very cool story, which I plan to post on Friday...if I live that long.
Let me say that this...
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Feb.09.2009
My family apparently decided an intervention was necessary. I think it all started when I told my husband I was chomping down radishes like they were going out of style and chocolate was next...Anyway, I've been kidnapped - in a nice way - and made to live in the real world this week. And what a...
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Feb.06.2009
Ooooh, it's my favorite day of the week, the day I get to talk about all of the strange habits that life as a writer has brought upon my lowly existence.
Since revising has not only taken over my life but pretty much defines it throughout wake and sleep, I've noticed lately that I've developed...
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Feb.04.2009
It’s my very first book review!! Kudos to Barrie Summy who organized this group of authors turned part-time reviewers. I’m honored to be a part of the group. We will each post a review the first Wednesday of the month. To read through them, just click on the neat icon to the right (The Book Review...
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About Stacy
Writing an author bio is perhaps the single hardest writing task for me. I’ve long pondered – in lotus pose – why this might be the case. After my knees threatened to come apart at the seam, I relinquished said pose and I decided my troubles with describing...
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ASPCA, Humane Society, Wildlife Federation