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• One Hot Day On The Porch -A Tale of Chuckapaw County

  October 29, 2009

  • The blog is still on vacation this week, because I am re-grouping from the writer's conference I attended.  So here's a story.“She is just trailer trash in brand new shoes!”   My cousin Lyannie was incensed.  Outraged.  She stomped her foot on the porch, drew herself up to her considerable height of just under five feet and glared at my sisters and me.  I looked at Darlene, who looked ...
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• Absurdity and Insectoid Drones

  October 9, 2009

  • On the absurdity scale, with one being “slightly askew” and ten being “no really, tell me, where are the hidden cameras?” a recent happening in my life hit about an eight.  A few weeks ago I got an e-mail from the human resources department at my job, informing me that there was a “mismatch” on the information they had and what Social Security was telling them.  Or at least what a ...
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• Sometimes I Have To Wonder What The Thinking Is

  October 2, 2009

  • Every once in a while, I come across a book that is so mind-numbingly dull, so lackluster in execution, so obvious in plot, that it makes me want to heave it across the room in a fit of gall.  No, I’m not going to name names, though I could.  What boggles me is a question I have no answer to: how the bloody h-e-double hockey sticks do the things get published in the first place?   Yes, ...
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• Never Could Say Goodbye

  September 25, 2009

  • Some goodbyes are poignant.  Some are with relief.  Some can be with a hearty “good riddance” or “don’t let the door hit you on the way out”.  Some are reluctant, others welcomed, yet others engender a curious combination of emotions that can hit you like a pineapple anchovy pizza.  The goodbyes I think about the most are the ones never said; the times when circumstance or ...
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• Rude New World

  September 18, 2009

  • Is it just me, or does it seem like people have gotten really rude in the last few years?  Have civility and manners become outmoded fashion?  Does expecting people to behave themselves with at least a modicum of respect for others make me a relic?  Ok, I know that there have always been badly behaved people.  But seriously. Lately it seems to be epidemic. I’m not talking about Emily Post ...
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