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September 19, 2009
- Every once in a while, I go on a diet. I particularly like to begin either in the month of February, or in October. Those are both good start months for things, because the weather during the month of October makes you feel alive and invigorated and purposeful, and the weather during February makes you feel dead and sluggish and aimless. So I started a diet a couple of weeks ago, but it's ...
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September 16, 2009
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One of my other websites quotes this poem from the Anthony Mingella film, Breaking and Entering."Forgive, Forget and Eat More Jam," the jar said on the lid.Dai ate some jam and thought a lot and, in the end, he didGo home and be a better boy (although, sometimes, it's tricky).There is a moral to this tale: "Jam makes fingers sticky."I loved this the first time I heard it ...
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September 15, 2009
- I love it when I get new art, especially really great-looking art. Debi Lewis over at Phaze has done it again. This time, she made the covers for my first two Bride Ball books (Bride Ball and Bride Ball II: Poison, Lies, and No-Win Choices).Now...how do you win books? It's really not difficult. Go to Long And Short Reviews and find out what today's question is. Then go to the Whipped Cream blog, ...
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September 13, 2009
- Many people have the gift of writing but lack the skills to fine-tune their work. That’s where professional copywriting, editing and proofreading come in. If your desire is to see your work published, but you don’t have the time or the ability to check the spelling, punctuation and grammar, you need help. Maybe you don’t have the time to network, market or blog your books or stories. ...
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September 13, 2009
- I've read a couple of interesting blogs this morning, both of which address the problems of morality in an athiest world, as opposed to a Christian world. The first, titled "Deconstructing the Purpose Driven Life - Chapter 23" is by The Athiest Missionary The athiest missionary poses the question what would Jesus do in two highly charged moral dilemmas: 1) Sophie's choice — choose ...
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September 11, 2009
September 4, 2009
- June 7, 2009 Let’s Talk About It My best friend Batman, and me were sitting on the back porch throwing down the buds, and talking. I told him what I thought was going on, about me daughter being on drugs. I told him, cankers have cretin things that they all do, one is talking so fast you can't understand what they are saying because they run their words together. They make dates with ...
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September 2, 2009
- Transplants and organs for sale has become a hot topic on TV these days.In an interview, one doctor shrugged when he was asked if he cared where the donor organs came from.Another man told the interviewer that his mother accepted an organ from a poor foreigner, rather than the one he had offered her. The donor, an 18-year-old girl from China, died shortly afterward. When asked if he and his ...
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September 2, 2009
- I've been so busy lately that it just struck me I haven't yet discussed the series of articles written about The Third Sign for Jane Smith's How Publishing Really Works website, in the Trios section. The idea is that three people connected to a book comment on his/her role in bringing the work to fruition--in the case of TTS, I, my editor John Helfers and my cover artist Joshua David ...
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August 30, 2009
- THE GREAT EXPLOITATION PROLIFERATION Chapter 3What has this world come to? People ask that question alot! The question is where has this world come from? Nobody asks that question and it seems to me to be the more logical question of the two. History is one of the most important subjects in grade school. Reading is of course the most important...writing...and Arithmetic. Your basic ...
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