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It Must Be Love
When Madness dropped the song from which the title of this post came, I quickly made my way to the nearest vinyl emporium (where are my Rio Mall nerds? I know you’re out there) and purchased the 45 RPM. I played it until I wore the grooves off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmezIIrFQmYYou’re welcome for that pleasurable little jaunt down […]
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Lunch Break: Why Horse Cousins are Creepy
Soooo … this post is the result of a (thus far) brief Facebook discussion with my sister blogger, Ra, on Ewoks. In case you can’t get to the post, she shared the news that people are now able to build an Ewok at Build-a-Bear, at which point I responded that Ewoks give me nightmares. Our […]
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One Week Until Camp Transformation
Many who know me may agree that, on certain things, I am already unstoppable. However, I’m about to add to the list.There are many great photos on The Camp TC (Redlands) site, but since I like Iron Man, this seemed most appropriate.So here’s the deal: next Monday, the Transformation begins. I will begin my first […]
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Becoming a Writer – DIY MFA Question of the Week 2
Ah, Gabriela and her compelling questions … this week, she asked us to rewind and reflect on how we became writers. Specifically: When did you realize that you wanted to write? What motivated you to get started?Leave us go back about a thousand years to when yours truly was in elementary school. The war with my […]
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The Hidden Realm
I was dreaming: I was in a park. Members of our church worship team were about to play, but the one young woman who was about to sing shouldn’t have been there. She just had a baby in the Visible Realm three days ago, yet there she was, looking like she did before she was […]
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The Sadness In His Eyes
The vacuum stopped working.I won’t go into detail but suffice it to say it wasn’t my fault. I wasn’t even using it and I’m not judging, but I did feel some type of way when I heard it shut off.After all, it’s a Dyson and the commercials show that Dyson’s never shut down, never break. Right? Or maybe […]
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What Validates a Writer? – DIY MFA Question of the Week 1
Western society in particular seems to focus on the letters behind our name as proof of our ability to do something. When visiting a doctor, our eyes might wander to the directory and peruse the list: DO, MD, PhN, PA, RN … If we take a class, there is something about seeing PhD, EdD, JD, […]
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VisDare 132: Unwilling Woman
Gidja and Mali washed the blood from their hands. ‘What will you do, Yalungur’? Mali’s lips were tight as he tried not to smirk.With a grunt, Yalungur finished the violation. ‘I told you both. I did not want this. But it was written in the stars that I would be the first woman. I must […]
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Let the Scent Not Fade
I once heard or saw or read a thing … for me, the three are often one and the same.The thing was that humans (and other animals as well) use pheromones for attraction. To bring it down to basics, a person might smell pleasant, smell unpleasant, or seem to have no noticable natural scent. If […]
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It Begins With One Step Beyond
I’m watching this very thought-provoking anime called Shigofumi.A Shigofumi is, as the English titling suggests, a letter from the dead. In the story (no spoilers!), the young woman pictured above is the person who delivers such post; when a person dies, he or she is given the opportunity to write a letter and this woman […]
A New Bloom
Where the Starving Activist Lives
A New Bloom 