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When I started feeling a bit under the weather on Saturday, it didn’t seem like much of a cold. My…
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I guess the “Visualize Turn Signals” bumper sticker was a reaction to the “Visualize World Peace” bumper stickers, indicating, perhaps,…
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On Tuesday, before my Writing Creative Nonfiction class, I overheard a classmate talking about the writing that they’d done this…
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If the right thing were always the easy thing, then no one would ever choose to do wrong. But it’s…
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I keep up with reading the blog of Dean Wesley Smith. He writes about writing, and about the business of…
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You should probably do it yourself. That’s what I decided after my disastrous hunt for strawberry sorbet last week. I’ve…
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I remember the flavor of Haagen-Dazs strawberry sorbet with the kind of fondness that can only be attached to a…
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One of the expenses that my husband and I occasionally argue about is bird seed. He, at times, buys more…
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On September 29th, I received a promotional email from the Idaho Steelheads hockey team. I guess when you buy tickets…
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