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Feb.02.2009
It's...........FEBRUARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE February, mostly because it means the end of January. January has always been a long, dark, boring month to me, despite all my tries to spice it up, find the good in each day, you name it. I still breathe a huge sigh of relief when February rolls around...
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Jan.30.2009
I can't believe another week has gone rushing by. Blimey. (Can you tell I'm still in 19th century New Zealand?)
After last Friday's post, I came up with all kinds of...well, let's say "quirky" things we writers do. Here is another of my favorites:
You might be a writer if...you try out...
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Jan.26.2009
It's official. We're in a recession. Ugh. After watching all the lists and lists of big corporations laying off thousands and thousands of workers today, my mood hit the dumps, somewhere near where our economy is wallowing. But it wasn't because Home Depot or Target is going to have a flat year. I...
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Jan.23.2009
I've spent too many hours revising. I admit it. I'm in "the zone". I am for all intents and purposes presently on hiatus in 19th century New Zealand.
That part's not so bad. Temporary breaks with reality can be a good thing, so long as you don't get too carried away. Right?
Anyway,...
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Jan.21.2009
In 1997, I braved the winter cold on January 20 to attend my first ever - and probably only - presidential inauguration. At the time, I'd just moved back from Germany, was in grad school at the University of Virginia working on my PhD in poli sci, and lucked into a couple of tickets. My parents...
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Jan.19.2009
It's Martin Luther King, Jr Day. When I was back in college, ages ago, I took a class on movements of peace. It was Notre Dame, a catholic university, after all. We studied Buber, Freire and Gandhi. We got into Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement as well.
Movements of peace can...
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Jan.13.2009
I was soooooooo happy just two short months ago when my middle grade novel, Dragon Wishes, launched. I'd worked so hard, but here it was, out there! Nothing stood in the way of literary success anymore. More book could be read.
Fast forward to February 10, 2009, when the Consumer Product Safety...
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Jan.09.2009
"Something good happens each day. You just have to find it." - my wise mom
When I was working on my PhD (and rarely saw the light of day), these words became my mantra. Now, long past that grueling period, I still use the idea when life gets little overwhelming. It's the glass is half...
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Jan.07.2009
January is a dark month, dark even here in the almost south of Oklahoma. It's not just the lack of sunlight that eats away at my soul this month, it's the downer that follows the holidays. I did a lot of celebrating this Christmas season, and coming down off of that is like coming down off of a...
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Jan.05.2009
Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It's been (gulp) two weeks since my last blog post.
Well, if I'm really confessing, it's even worse. It's been two weeks since I did a lick of writing. (Double gulp)
I could say it was the holiday madness, the baking, the cooking, the wrapping, the sending. And...
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Dec.17.2008
Did I do it, you ask?
The Demonator had other plans. The sled was in rare form on Monday. Kids went rocketing down with glee, running into flagpoles, sidewalks, up driveways, you name it. I was dying for my turn, but that old sled had its own plan. The second to last run, I was waiting at the...
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Dec.15.2008
It happens about twice a year. And when it does, Katie bar the door. SNOW. Just watch how loudly you utter that devilish word here in Oklahoma. I've heard many a Sooner decry it as a four letter word. Okay, it does have four letters, but you get the point.
I don't share the agony many down here...
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Dec.12.2008
I promised a story on Wednesday about Christmas trees. Here it is in all it's dysfunctionality and puzzlement. Reader beware. It's really is the Chevy Chase, Christmas Vacation, craziness in your tree kind of story.
It all has to do with perception of course. Perception of straightness. I wasn't...
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Dec.10.2008
I was all set to blog this morning about another 5 hour "tree watch" I sweated through yesterday. Don't worry, for those who love the occasional whacked out Christmas tree story, it's coming. But today, it's a shout out to readers.
I didn't know I was going to write this blog until I...
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Dec.08.2008
I'm getting old. I didn't believe it - or I was in a great denial place - until Friday, when fashion reruns finally caught up with me.
Truth be told, I supposed, I've been building to this for eight months. It all started when I went to another salon for a day of beauty and came out with what was...
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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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