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It’s a FISH!!

Those of you who know me online know I tend to use marine animals as weapons. If you know me offline–well, it’s a long story. Just accept that I tend to use marine animals as weapons. In particular, I use fish-thwacks to threaten encourage my writer friends to accomplish. So you’ll understand my joy that

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For Which I Am Grateful

My little girl is taller than I am. She’s strong and healthy and bright and compassionate and kind, even if she is often hard of hearing. I have a good, stable job with benefits that is fulfilling in many ways, and gives me lots of time to pursue my writing career. Within me there is

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Yes. That.

“More and more as I am here and see what life really is, I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.” Dr. Jerri Nielson Fitzgerald I want to travel. I want to see the world. Eat Japanese food with Japanese people, see the

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Susan Boyle Still Makes Me Cry

If, somehow, you don’t know who Susan Boyle is, go here. I’ll wait. So. Why she makes me cry. Still, when I know what’s coming when she opens her mouth. Still, when she “lost” Britain’s Got Talent. (I put “lost” in quotes because it isn’t Highlander–there can be more than one winner, and coming out

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I Can See Clearly Now…

…the rain is gone. Or at least, the old monitor. The new monitor…oh lord, is it gorgeous! It’s a nineteen-inch widescreen. Nothing huge, but I don’t need huge. I just wanted to be able to view more than one window at a time without feeling cramped. I have that now. I love it. Also, I

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