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If at First You Don't Succeed, Avoid Sky Diving
The Woman Left Behind, Linda Howard's latest release, is out now, and the promo got me interested enough to pre-order. For anyone like me who has had actual military training, the story may make you...
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Sleep Strategies
Last night I slept for seven hours straight. This was deep sleep, too, with dreams that I vaguely remember (something about trying on clothes. I haven't bought anything new since I began my weight-loss...
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Off to Finale
The bird and I are locking ourselves in the office today to nail a deadline. See you on Friday.
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Most of us write every day, but we writers tend not to count things other than fiction as writing. Writing for us = story. I admit, I'm guilty of that mindset.I'm writing this blog post now. After it I...
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Serenity
As I might have mentioned, I bought a Zen wall calendar for my home office. Each month it gives me a word that is supposed to remind me to do things like breathe, slow down, relax and enjoy life. Yeah,...
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Pic Testing
Ignore me today. I'm playing again with Blogger's photo upload thing. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.Or not.I'm...
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Freeware caution: always scan free downloads of anything for bugs and other threats before dumping the programs into your hard drive.The Hemingway Editor is an app to help improve the quality and...
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More Freebies
I found these free pics and over 700K more at Freepik.com, which allows you to download any of them without strings. All you're asked to do is provide a photo credit line, which they provide already...
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Off to Write
I'm unplugging to catch up on some work. See you on Friday.Image credit: Designed by Freepik
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Stranger Than Fiction
Inspiration for stories come from innumerable sources, but I find most of mine in the real world. I especially love the unsolved mysteries of history, as they can be a wonderful focus for the...
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Work Time Ten
Ten Things to Help You Time Your Work SessionsThis aquarium timer from Onlineclock.net provides a nice fish tank backdrop. The alarm when the coundown ends is like a digital alarm clock.For a guided,...
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On Hiatus
The bird and I are going to take some time off and unplug to deal with that personal stuff, catch up on work and otherwise get things sorted. No worries now, I'll be fine. See you in a few weeks.
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Checking In
Just a note to let everyone know I'm fine. Now that it's over I can tell you that my laser surgery on both eyes also went very well, and restored the vision I had lost again in my left eye. After I got...
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Seeing Clearly
Every time I come back to blogging from a hiatus I always feel I must apologize for being absent -- and I am sorry to stay away. This time my excuses are fairly hair-raising, but before you read on...
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Epiphanies
Aside from getting through a couple of disastrous months, I've been working on refining my writing process. My primary motivation for messing with my methods was to boost my productivity, but I've also...
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One Thing
This pile of fabric looks harmless enough, right? Not when I look at it. It's the makings of a quilt I've wanted to create for about a year now, ever since I came across a pattern called Zen Garden....
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Whatcha Reading
I haven't had much time lately for pleasure reading, but I have knocked out a couple of books by two of my favorite authors this month. The first is Someone to Care by Mary Balogh, the newest novel in...
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Quilt Update
In my One Thing post I showed you a pile of fabric that scared me; here's the pieced quilt top I made out of it. I cut all of the pieces on an 18" cutting mat and sewed it freehand on my Singer. I...
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