Mary Lamphere
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They say that hindsight is 20/20, but I’d like to challenge that. I think hindsight is more like 20/15, better than average. The more I think about it, maybe even 20/08. As with every big event I participate in, (or even small programs for that matter), once it’s over, I’m rarin’ and ready to do…
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The best thing about public gatherings like Cornfest is the people watching. Yes, I love live music. And yes, I love fried fest food and (overpriced) beer. But mostly, I love to look at my fellow fest-goers. I’m inspired by the dance moves. I’m captivated by the fashions. I’m intrigued by the tattoos on display.…
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Stephen King says, “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” I believe this to be true. I can’t help but notice the voices in my head respond differently depending upon what I’m reading. A well-written book nourishes my mind, stimulates my ideas…
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So I cut my finger on Friday doing something I shouldn’t be doing, yard work. I had big plans for Saturday. Plans many years in the waiting. Previous scheduling conflicts seem like a better excuse than my two hours in the ER giving me three stitches, a splint, and explicit do not use, do not…
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“Time” has been a recurring theme of late. From the STEM event at NIU where guest author, Mike Mullins, said people always ask him when he has time to write, to which he replies- do you have a television? The average American, he says, watches approximately 35 hours of TV a week. Go home, he suggested,…
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Twenty-seven years ago August 2, I married the guy that knocked me up. I wasn’t going to. When I told him I was pregnant, while we sat on the picnic benches at Aldeen Park, a place we’d hung out many a time, he immediately dropped to one knee and proposed. I said no. I thought…
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I’m a little embarrassed to say that I don’t know what to blog about! I miss the ABC Blog Challenge. This Idea Lady seems to be having trouble thinking up blog ideas without the direction of the alphabet. C is for Conditioning! H is for Habit! (If only exercise was that easy for me! A…
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Well folks, it’s been 26 weeks since I A is for Accepted the In Print ABC Blog Challenge. Half a year has passed! Who believes? And here we are at the End of the Alphabet… the letter Z, which is, according to my phonetic logic, unnecessary but kind of cool. In the 6 months’ time…
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Even though I probably don’t say it often enough, you know I love you, right? I know we’re supposed to say it, out loud, let it be known verbally. Songs tell us, movies tell us, books tell us. They all convey how we should tell the people we love that we love them. But why…
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Eager to stay true to the In Print ABC Blog Challenge, I didn’t want to cheat and use a word like eXcitement or eXtreme or eXsanguination. I wanted to find a good, solid, and accurate X word. News flash—there aren’t any. Referring to the Ulojee blog, I resume my argument that X, although a fun letter,…
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