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• Reading! But Not as Much as Usual

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  I was reading a lot there for a while but then I got busy with Easter, Passover, out of town guests which have still not stopped (two sets of friends coming this weekend!) and home construction. I've still been reading, but nothing that has blown the top of my head' [...]
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• How to be a Better Writer (Wide Lawns style)

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  A while back, someone asked the famous blogger Miss Britt for advice on how to be a better writer and she replied and I was jealous, for I wanted someone to ask ME how to be a better writer. This is not because I am a better writer per [...]
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• Oops

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  Oops. I didn't get my Indie Ink Challenge in on time this week! I was going to try to slip in at the last minute right now, but I can't get into the spreadsheet that tells you your challenge and challenger.
  
  It's been a rough week for me, I [...]
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• From Purple Hair to Plates in the Lips

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  Sometimes when I look at my innocent, little six month old baby, I imagine all of the utter bullshit and nonsense this child is going to put me through when she's a teenager. I won't resent her for it, for such is the way of adolescents and lord knows, I'll [...]
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• A Real Diamond and a Real Screw-Up

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  This past weekend I won a story contest in my local newspaper by writing about how my mother sold her long awaited diamond ring so that I could go to my dream college when I was seventeen. The stories had to be short and mine was, but what I [...]
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• It Should Have Been Simple

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  It should have been simple
  to explain
  that I am a creature of the depths,
  a fish that lives
  in the midnight zone,
  that I emit my own faint glow
  as I drift.
  
  
  It should have been simple
  to understand
  why I cannot live at the surface,
  that [...]
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• Happy Mother's Day

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  Hey everyone! Happy Mother's Day.  I'd planned to write you a nice, inspiring story today, but unfortunately I ate something bad last night and have spent the day in bed feeling under the weather. I've finally emerged and am going to limp over to my parents' house' [...]
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• A Hairy Situation

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  All week I've been despising my hair. Nothing about it looks attractive or how it ought. I look a sight and it seems like no matter what I do, my hair always looks like the hair of those somber, miserable looking, weather hardened women you see in old tin type' [...]
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• How Useless is My Cat?

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  My cat is so useless that now that she is an outside cat, she stands wailing at the front door to come in when she has to go to the bathroom. It hasn't occurred to her to go outside, not with all that loose topsoil in the flower bed. She' [...]
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• The Coincidence of Opal (??)

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  They never got me the rock polisher. I have no room to complain though because one year I got a microscope, which I used to look at my own scabs more often than the slides that came with it, and one year they got me a small organ. Not an [...]
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