It’s all about me
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Back in February, I posted a blog called Change is Good. It was literally about change… …being good. This time around, I’m tackling change, the verb, as in, to become different. WE’RE MOVING! My home is becoming a different home and it’s GOOD! I never thought I’d move again. I…
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I can check a couple more things off my Cup List! Thanks to the support and encouragement of some great friends, after driving past it twenty times a week, I finally had lunch at Noodles & Company. And now I’m okay with simply driving by. The company was fabulous! The noodles? Meh. But I wanted to go and…
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After watching a movie called Ex Machina, Dave and I were discussing our earliest memories. It’s funny the things you remember. When I was like four or five, one night my mom and I came home from a picnic and interrupted a break-in at our apartment. They set the end of the sofa on fire…
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Writing is hard. Editing is hard. Publishing is harder. Why is publishing harder? Because you thought you were done. Done writing. Done editing. You thought you were ready to publish. You were wrong. Okay, I. I was wrong. There is SO MUCH that goes into the publishing process. I had no idea. I honestly thought…
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Bah da bah bah da da So good to me. Or is it? (This is probably not going where you think it is…) So, I’m working on the FINAL draft of the 50k word novel I am going to self-publish any minute now and I have lyrics in my story. YOU CAN’T DO THAT. I…
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We recently saw the movie Ride Along 2 (don’t judge me), and although it was pretty much what you’d expect, a B- comedy, there was one line that resonated with me. In defense of his irritating, obnoxious, try-too-hard, needy brother-in-law to be as played by Kevin Hart, trust nobody detective Ice Cube says something to the…
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In Print, the professional writers’ organization that I helped create, turns five in March. That is pretty impressive. Not just to me, but to the hundreds of writers that we’ve served in a variety of ways over the last five years. Five years! Condensing five years of highlights into a manageable blog has been quite…
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When we first moved to DeKalb, the toll was forty cents. That was eighty cents a day for Dave to get to and from work in Aurora. Eighty cents, as in cash money. Change. Coins. There was no I-Pass. We used to give him jars, boxes, and tins of change for gifts. Happy Father’s Day! Here’s…
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Good morning… Yes, it’s still morning. Man, that came fast. My mind is all over the place, making it difficult to focus on any one topic for a blog. All over the place and yet nowhere, I might add. Wow, my bed is mighty comfy this morning. How’d it get to be 10 o’clock already?!…
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Remember having to wait beside a very attached telephone in anticipation of BIG NEWS? No, you probably don’t. Good things used to come to those who waited. Ain’t nobody got time for that now. Immediate gratification. Is that too much to ask for? Obviously…
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