Mary Lamphere
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According to the bartender at Murphy’s on the Marquette campus, Jeffrey Dahmer was quite the clever psychopath. I guess the last of his victims escaped, and went running naked down the street babbling incoherently. He had been injected with some kind of poison. The cops were called. Dahmer, in his psychotic brilliance, disrobed and ran outside naked,
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Well, I did it. I uploaded my manuscript for publication. And I’m scared sh*tless. (what an odd term that is) Odd, but applicable. Scared. Sh*tless. According to the post, 10 Things That Will Happen When You Start Pursuing Your Dreams, I’m right on track. That’s 10 Things, beginning with, 1. You are going to be
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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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As I prepare for my first indy-publishing experience, I’m reminded of the very first time I saw my words in print. I had just joined a writers’ group and one of the member benefits was guaranteed publication in one of their two annual journals. I was ecstatic! My words! In print! I was discussing these
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We celebrated our In Print five year anniversary this past Saturday at Cliffbreakers. As a founding member, I was asked (cough*required*cough) to speak. I struggled with my words, not because I don’t have a million awesome things to say about In Print, but because I worried that the five original founders might be sharing the
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