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Now it is December. I think I should write something encouraging in these darkening days, but come up empty. I don’t want to wear a mask here, so I speak of the barrenness and trust I’m not alone in the wilderness. I don’t have three steps to find happiness, five ideas to streamline this season, sev Read more of this blog post »

 

Did you hear about the Oregon Oncology nurse who posted a bragging video on TikTok about how she travels as she likes,  doesn’t wear a mask when she’s off work and lets her kids have unfettered play dates? You can get the story here. 

This on the heels of the earlier post I made about how exhaus

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Blog Audit Challenge 2020
Welcome back for the final month of challenges for the Blog Audit Challenge 2020!
I hope you did well with the November challenges. Remember to link up your progress reports in the Link Up on the 5th December. 

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One day, you’re out driving, and you miss your turn because you can’t read the street sign. The next, you find yourself squinting to decipher the words in your newspaper. Are the font sizes changing? Or are your eyes getting worse? As we age, we often notice signs of deteriorating vision. While Read more of this blog post »

         

   "My mother's peach cobbler was so good, it made God himself cheat on his wife"

A great first line in a terrific little collection of stories dealing with Black women, church-going, and life in a patriarchal world. God, in this case, is Pastor Troy Neely, who Olivia at first believes

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Writing Start: 10:29
Finish: 3:20
Total New Words (est.): 100
Edited (est.): 5700

Tasks

1. Book Three Melody: Off 2. Fractalverse VI: Off till 12/05
3. Dreamcatcher: Off
4. Cheapery St. Heroes Book Three: Edited what I've written in chapter one so far
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Have you been shopping earlier than usual this year? I have, partly because whatever I buy will have to be shipped to me before I ship to those I love. Yes, I could ship direct, but I want to see the items, and I like wrapping things. But if you’re still looking for the reader, or writer, in you Read more of this blog post »

«Сегодняшний пессимист принципиально живёт на всю катушку, потому что, когда переедем на Марс, из еды останутся только камни.
Оптимист закрывает маской вообще все отверстия и не покидает дом, чтобы однажды выпорхнуть прекрасной бабочкой, как только климат, экономика, политика и микробиологическая обс Read more of this blog post »

Came Out Today…

This is the third book published in twenty days. Great fun.

If I managed 2 books every twenty days, that will get me to about 56 books, if I average three books every twenty days, that will get me above 70. So on target so far!!

The book that came out today is Book #7 Year of the Cat: A

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I don’t know about you, but at the beginning of 2020, I had some big, ambitious plans. I’d hoped to: publish two full-length novels, complete my second full marathon, and begin transitioning out of a job that I no longer enjoyed. Those were my top goals for the year that would push me closer to livi

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Luke 8:22-25 ~ 22 One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out, 23 and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. 24 And they went  Read more of this blog post »

Just for Christmas

Could this be true love? Or is it just for Christmas?

Finding an abandoned dog beside the road isn’t the Christmas surprise interior designer, Molly Ford is hoping for. But when the local vet can’t find a space for the bedraggled dog, Molly makes a rash decision.

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Treat your writer self – and a friend – to these Buddy Bundles. This special holiday sale will make it easy to gift your writer what they need to be happily productive next year and beyond. Writing a book is much more fun when you do it with someone else – these bundles make it […]

The post Holiday g

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Seth Meyers shares this story of a man who actually pried open the jaws of an alligator to save his puppy. This story touched me even more so because the puppy is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, who looks just like Baxter the Wonder Dog.

On one of our Alaska cruises trips last season, we came across a large group of humpback whales. There were maybe around 30 or so. I don’t know what they were up to, but they seemed to be busy at the surface. The main group was maybe a 1/2 mile from where we were watching them when these two sur

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Counting down the days until Parker and Skylar can be yours. Are you in?

 

Her Marine Next Door

My next door neighbor Parker Jax is not my type. He’s covered in tats, rides a motorcycle, and his parties keep me up all night. The fact he’s sexy as sin doesn’t change the fact we are oil and water

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“Why don’t you drink?” This question has cropped up numerous times over the years in my work with teenagers as a youth minister, and to explain why I don’t drink has always struck me as odd. Alcohol is the only drug in my experience that I’ve had to explain why I don’t use it. And I was asked the q

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A wee while back I wrote a post about being fine in 2020.  It was an ode to how we're basically fine but not fine but sorta fine only not really.  You can read that here.

 

As a follow-up, I guess I should say a bit more about what life being kinda-fine is like for me personally.  This is not a gu Read more of this blog post »

Wondering is addiction curable is like asking if diabetes is curable. You may see many people not getting well and think recovery is not possible, but 23 million Americans are in some form of recovery. Do you know someone who is struggling, or in recovery? Addiction is both a physical dependency tha

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A batty, especially promising Christmas Lecture at the University of Bristol, is upcoming from Ig Nobel Prize winner Gareth Jones:

Echoes: reflections on science, sex and shootings

2 December 2020, 3.00 PM – 2 December 2020, 5.00 PM

Professor Gareth Jones

G13/14 or Zoom online

The u

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Sci-Fi Book Fair for Free books

A bundle of high-caliber authors for lovers of SF/F.

This special event showcases all subgenres of sci-fi and may include:

cyberpunk

dystopian

fantasy

hard scifi

military

post-apocalyptic

robots

soft scifi

space opera

technothrillers

time travel

and more.

Join us! SF Fr

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The Penguin Books anthology, Fire, Flood, Plague, edited by Sophie Cunningham, is out in the world today. It’s a fantastic collection of reflections on the year that has been, and I’m thrilled to be there among some of my favourite writers and thinkers. My essay, Trouble Breathing, was also publishe Read more of this blog post »

Great news for the audibook lovers among you–the full-cast recordings of my books are now available through Audible!

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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Vicki Batman will be awarding a handbag (US Only) to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.

Love blossoms in the small town of Sommervi

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 I'd like to welcome fellow Wild Rose Press author, Mike Torreano to my blog today. He writes Westerns, so you're in for something a little different. 

What inspired you to write? In fifth grade, back in Ohio, my teacher made us read a book a week, and write a report. You never knew who she was going

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In times of uncertainty, we look for voices of clarity. Over several coming episodes, we’re going to be speaking with individuals who have the ability to speak a bit of clarity into the present uncertainty, and who can offer strategies for navigating through the next several months of instability.

On

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On 1st December 1530, fifty-year-old Margaret of Austria, Princess of Asturias and Duchess of Savoy, died at her home at Mechelen. She was buried alongside her second husband, Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, in their mausoleum at Bourg-en-Bresse.

Margaret was an important woman. She was the daughter of

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Orice business online urmereste acelasi lucru: trafic pe site. Traficul pe site inseamna un numar mai mare de potentiali clienti, o imagine mai buna in fata motoarelor de cautare si o confirmare a faptului ca faci bine ceea ce faci.…

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Articolul 5 lucruri simple care te ajuta sa ai

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Yi Sang (1910–1937) was a painter, architect, poet, and writer in early-twentieth-century Korea, when the Korean peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule. Yi Sang wrote and published in both Korean and Japanese until his early death from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven, after imprisonment

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As always, I recommend sampling before you buy! I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking a bunch as I prepare these posts L OL).

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ALIEN DRAGON’S HUNT (DRAGONS OF KITALA BOOK 1) by Aline A

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After starting this journey back in 2014 with writer friend Amy Miles, we have tied a little bow on our journey together but putting all three books together into one beautiful digital boxed set. Once we can do signings again, we’ll get it up in paperback, but for now we offer up this beauty.

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In this post ‘Conversations with GPT-3‘ we get some interesting insight about the experience of conversing with an artificial intelligence, on the basis of the largest natural language AI around, which was released in July 2020.

GPT-3 is “Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an autoregress

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