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[CLICK TITLES TO READ THE ENTIRE POSTS] An eagle flew by just offshore. Both my husband and I noted that she was flying lower than we had ever seen one of our eagles fly. Gary thought she would hit the water, but she was working hard and stayed in the air. I watched her skim around…
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Just now I have only two ads on the side of my Facebook feed. One is for organic cotton sheets and the other offers to sell me the “best reviewed” mattress. I am seeing these two ads because yesterday I was shopping for organic sheets and a new mattress. You see the connection, right? Facebook…
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Skim milk and new snow, American’s teeth, the inside of most apples, stratus clouds, locker room towels, fleet trucks, bathtubs, coconut flesh, porcelain, chalk, sugar, bleached flour, drawing paper, Jockey shorts, daisy petals—loves me or loves me not?—, picket fences, the whites of their eyes, the fog line beside the highway, and the sign that…
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Check straight news services such as Rueters and the AP, check Pew surveys, check NPR, The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Hill. Check the left and the right. Look for government statistics. Verify. Wikipedia does a decent job. I might not place each news source exactly as shown below, but it’s a pretty…
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Eight hours, then six hours the next afternoon, then a day off, then another seven hours revising my 2016 novel after working my paying job. I have queried it more times than I am willing to admit and under four different titles. (The husband of a friend suggested the title last week that I think…
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“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving. and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.” —Gautama Buddah
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I have been reading and writing since I was at least five years old. A science teacher complained some years ago that English was offered to students every year in school. “You would think kids would know how to read and write by now.” I could see his point. Two years of high school science…
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When I set up my essay on the little black dress (LBD) to run on Tuesday, it was because I have a series of essays about color that I planned to post on successive Tuesdays. I am releasing them in order, and it was that essay’s turn. It was posted automatically this morning with me…
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Black skin and black eyes, black noses and black fur, black hair, and the darkness inside tunnels. Darkness playing against light, the strength of contrast, of deepest intensity. The little black dress is all about reliability, the safe but shapely and dependable dress that will always looks right for an occasion. When I was young and weighed considerably…
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I napped, walked, read, cooked, revised older words, wrote new words, traveled, drank coffee, took a ferry twice, queried, submitted, and received good news. We went to the march in Astoria last Sunday. We both support sane “well regulated” gun safety. I set up blog posts to go live in the middle of the night. Life…
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