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This avenue lives in the town where I’ve set my latest novel.  What a great name for a street. If you lived there, things would seem ever-optimistic, wouldn’t they? Well you’ll have to read the book to find out!!!
But until then you can just revel in the following tidbits that (if you [...]

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Well, if finishing means you won, then I did! Fifty-thousand two-hundred thirty-seven words and I’m done.
Well, the first draft is, anyway. Now I have something to work with so I’m off to make the book actually be readable.
Hope you all had great Thanksgivings!

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November may be well known for turkey and stuffing and being stuffed and shopping for Christmas, but for many writers, November means hunkering down and writing a first draft of the novel that has been knocking around their head for six months.
I love this process–it’s the one I use whenever I [...]

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Sorry to do this to you folks. But, in the effort to blog more often I’ve decided to try out various products you’ve seen advertised on tv. So, here’s number 1. These Kinoki pads. I don’t know what they actually do, but I definately got the result the commercial suggested I [...]

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Well, looks like dinner anyway, right?
I think the turkeys who roam our neighborhood are interesting if nothing else. By Thanksgiving we’ll have twenty in our yard on a daily basis.
Our one neighbor doesn’t appreciate the site of any wildlife–she’ll bludgeon a snake to death and tear a mouse limb from limb [...]

 I forgot how different the city is.
 
In Oakmont the dress seems to stretch from every imaginable type of chino—pants to skirts to shorts—and sweat pants. There are chunks of people you might see in suits. Except for the suits, the chino and sweat crowd occupy pretty much the bulk of clothing.
 
Then in the city the dress [...]

This part has nothing to do with the intended post, but I can’t stop from saying that upon entering Bruegger’s this morning, I was struck by two very large-headed men. I’m not talking a little outsized, like the men had to wear men-sized caps since they were three but their bodies grew into their noggins, [...]

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Well, it’s Fat Sunday!
Hahaha.
Here’s a shot of what my feet were doing all summer long.
That’s right, it’s not pretty.
But it’s not the worst it could be, either.
I still have the 12 pounds I lost, off, but everything has shifted and let’s just say I don’t feel l [...]

Can things be this bad?
It’s so hard to imagine that the financial world is about to crumble.
It’s hard to figure out who is smart, dumb or greedy.
How do you know who is telling the truth who really knows the truth and who is just using the most sensational aspects of the truth for their own [...]

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Hey there everyone! I hope your summer was great. Mine was busy but wonderful and now, over…I should be skipping through the aisles of Office Depot singing “it’s the most wonderful time of the year…” and sometimes I feel like that, but there’s a cover of sadness that both my children [...]