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Another hiccup

Just to keep you updated on the web issues, the site fell off search again a few days ago, so although the scans are showing all the files as uncorrupted, the company I’ve got fixing the issue recommended wiping the server clean again and restoring from an older backup to make sure we restore the […]

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15 Reasons Trump won’t debate Hillary

I can’t take credit for this one. One of the best satirical writers I know (spoiler alert, he’s related to me) wrote one of the fall-down funniest satirical listicles on why Trump won’t debate Hillary. Possibly my favorite: “Taking Poly Sci class at NYU.” Click here for the whole list. And prepare for a giggle. […]

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Happy National Girlfriend’s Day!

I tend to roll my eyes at manufactured “days,” but something about learning that today is National Girlfriend’s Day made me smile. I have been blessed in the female friend department. Some of my dear friends of today I’ve known since childhood. Others I’ve just met. Moving into the writing community, in particular, I’ve met […]

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Proxemics

This morning I was reminded of one of my favorite tidbits of information from college: the concept of proxemics. I was standing in the store after CrossFit, waiting to pay for my protein drink, and an older gentleman was standing uncomfortably close behind me. If I shifted, he shifted closer too. When it was my […]

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Random Monday musings on this election

In no particular order: Why has no one tipped off Donald Trump that he’s consistently being lit for interviews and public appearances like a Bond villain? Even I know you should not be lit from above like that. What if the hacked emails WikiLeaks is threatening to release actually show that Donald Trump is a […]

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A very important new relationship

I know, I know, it’s crazy to love a thermostat, but, people, I am there. I am seriously there. A month ago, when I installed a new central air unit, I said to myself, “Hey, why not a new thermostat, too?” I went all out, for the pretty, WiFi-enabled one, the third-generation Nest. And fell […]

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Craft books for writers

If you’ve ever done a job you really, really love, at a certain point you begin to ask yourself how it works, why it’s important, and how those who have come before you have done it. I remember once hearing a writing teacher tell me that you should read all the craft books when you’re […]

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Reading the Constitution

Perhaps the most impactful moment of either of the political conventions was the one in which a Muslim father of a fallen U.S. soldier reclaimed dignity and patriotism with a six-minute speech. (If you haven’t seen it, you owe it to yourself. I’ve inserted a link to it below). It helped to underscore several key […]

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Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

One of my CONSERVATIVE-leaning Facebook friends posted on the day of Hillary’s acceptance speech something along the lines that regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, it bears noting that it’s historic that a woman has finally been nominated by one of our two parties for an office that has existed for 240 […]

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Paranoia

The other day a friend actually said to me, “I left my house the other day and two of my neighbors were talking to each other. And I just got the feeling they were talking about me.” We laughed about it, eventually. Obviously they weren’t really talking about her. But we’ve all had paranoid tendencies […]

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