This morning I set off with Diamondqueen and the Hooligans on our annual vacation trip. This year we decided on Niagara Falls. It was just something different to see, with lots of side attractions for the kids. We are planning …
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Shrugging Off the Nudge
There’s the problem of writer’s block, where the spirit is willing but nothing seems to rise out of the creative void. I’ve rarely had writer’s block in the sense of not being able to write something. Words have poured out …
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One Small Star
In memory of Dunblane and Newtown… About 1 a.m. last Friday morning, I shut down the computer, went upstairs, and bundled myself from top to toe. I sneaked out the front door without rousing Rusty and made my way to …
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Darkness in the Season of Light
Like everyone else, I struggled all day Friday to come to terms with the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. There is no coming to terms with it. To think of those babies dying at the hands of that monster is too …
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Sciatica and Charlie Brown
Everything was fine when I left the house around 8:50 this morning. I was on my way to take a stress test at Bethesda North, and Mom had just finished cleaning up in the kitchen and was going to sit …
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My Sister Did It!
She whined, griped, cursed her lack of common sense and judgment, and swore (once more) that she’d never do it again: My sister, Diamondqueen, completed 50,000 words for the 2012 NaNoWriMo. Not only do I congratulate her, I chastise myself …
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