The Year Coming to a Close

As the year comes to a close, I normally find myself dwelling on what I did wrong and what I hope to do better in the new year, but as this year closes I don’t have time for that.
I am in the process of cleaning up and prepping for our New Year’s Eve fondue party. [...]

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I Think Stephen King is Stalking Me

Yesterday I added the “Best American Short Stories 2007″ (edited by Stephen King) to my stack of books. I enjoyed the introduction he wrote and the forward penned by the new series editor. I wasn’t enthralled with the first short story I read, but I will have to say the story did have [...]

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Gift Card Burning a Hole in My Pocket

One of my Christmas gifts was a $25 gift card to Border’s. This is of course, AWESOME! I, however, have so many books that I haven’t read yet. I was trying to pare that down, even, and I took my pile of already read but not keeping books to the used bookstore. [...]

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Best American Poetry 2007

There seems to be a big controversy over the “Best American Poetry” series every year, but the debate was even more fervent this year. Or maybe I was just more involved with Poetry this year so I took more notice.
In either case I didn’t want to put my 2 cents out there until [...]

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Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone out there is having a good holiday .I decided to “work” today since I won’t be able to tomorrow or Wednesday.Then it’ll be a rush, rush, rush to get in a few more days of work before New Year’s holiday when we often have company.
So, time to get myself up from the [...]

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Goober’s Reality Check

Yesterday I surprised myself by finishing my writing quicker than I thought I would. I headed out early to pick up a sandwich for dinner (Quizno’s Honey Bourbon Chicken small is only 320 calories–woo hoo!). While I was drving it occurred to me that I had not worked on my short story! Oops! [...]

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New Plan Seems Good :)

My idea of working in reverse seems to be working pretty well. The only problem I get into is like this afternoon where I was going through the stack of email from the morning, not realizing how much time had passed. As I type this it is already after 2pm and my writing [...]

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