Blogging Friends and Strangers

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Unexpected milestones. Gotta love ’em. You’re doing something you’ve never done, before, and suddenly, you realize… Hey, that was new. The moment your blog readers start talking to each other in the comments. The moment someone contacts you to ask if they can use one of your stories or posts or photos… The moment you

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A Subdued Thanksgiving

3 CommentsEvents, food, health, lifestyle, memoir, rants, real life, , , , ,

I had a Thanksgiving post scheduled to go, yesterday. I pulled it at the last minute because it didn’t really fit my current mood. I’m not sure that it would have fit anybody’s current mood. I had a pretty mellow Thanksgiving this year. Just two of us, and not at Waffle House, either. All said

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Smoke and Virus Patrol

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It is spring, and the farmers in Kansas are burning their fields. Air quality advisories for miles around, half way across all the neighboring states. Dry coughs all around. How do you tell an old lady she smells? It’s bad every year, and worse, now that every cough and tickle foreshadows a lingering painful death.

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IWSG: The Plague Rat Writing World

69 Commentshealth, Insecurities, lifestyle, writing, , , ,

April 1 question – The IWSG’s focus is on our writers. Each month, from all over the globe, we are a united group sharing our insecurities, our troubles, and our pain. So, in this time when our world is in crisis with the covid-19 pandemic, our optional question this month is: how are things in

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