Just like you wouldn’t open the hood of a car with a vegetable peeler in your hand and expect to change the spark plugs, there are certain tools that are essential to your writing career. Sure, you might be able to get the spark plugs out and changed, but it would take a lot longer [...]
I am not a fan of holidays, for many personal and painful reasons. This one is particularly difficult.
However, I can be thankful for many things. I live in a country that encourages free speech; I have a roof over my head and a bag of Peanut M&M’s. A new episode of Top Chef is on [...]
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One thing I’d like to emphasize is the need to document our lives for the next generation. Blogging has been ideal for this. In the olden days, before typewriters, computers and word processors, people actually kept written diaries. You know, like with paper and pen? Actual ink? I know, isn’t that wild?
Not only did people [...]
I thought she would always be here.
She was there in the beginning, teaching me to speak, eat, to potty. She was there through elementary school, through the angst of the teenage years and the rebellion of high school. She was there during the first attempts at self-sustentation; providing advice, support, and a new set of [...]
Everyone probably knows how pissed off the bailout of AIG and the 700 billion for Wall Street has made me. Now, the auto makers are begging for a taxpayer handout. I’m a woman on the edge.
I want my bailout.
That’s a good question, and I wish I had a good answer.
The truth of the matter is, as some of you might know, I lost my momma in August and the world has not been the same since. I’ve been trying very hard not to fall into the Abyss of Depression, but it’s been a [...]
I know I’ve posted about this video before, but it’s so appropriate to this day I have to post it again.
Letters Home from the Garden of Stone
This video and the comments left from people so affected by this war say it better than I ever could.
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My father was a Marine. My uncle was in the [...]
So, it’s the weekend after a quake in Netta Land registering oh, about a 6 out of 10 on the Netta Scale. Not horrendous, but still enough to cause fissures and some foundation-altering events. I’ve been trying to de-stressify and take it easy — you know, when you become older you don’t bounce back like [...]
If you didn’t know by now, I suck at posting awards and stuff. However, when a goddess like Lala at Coastal Commentaries takes the time out to honor me, I can do nothing less than bow before the goddess.
First, the meme:
The rules are as follows:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least [...]
These were the high points for me:
** The way Obama is so loving with his girls and his wife. How he gave Michelle credit for being the love of his life. The first thing she said to him was, “I love you,” and his to her was, “Are you okay?” Amazing.
The puppy. Heh.
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