Category: Blog
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The Deep End
I think by the time you reach a certain age, you’ve had a few close calls with death. The first time I brushed past the Grim Reaper was when I was about seven. It was summer time and my day care center had bused us all to the community pool. The kid to adult ratio…
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City Wildlife
We don’t use our front yard very much. We’re pretty private, unfriendly people and we prefer our fenced-in backyard where we can be outside and not have to see or talk to anyone. Consequently, the local wildlife prefer the front yard. Last month a robin built her nest under our gutters, and by standing on…
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Happenings
Sometimes weird stuff just happens to you, you know? Here’s some weird things I can think of off the top of my head: A couple years ago, I was sitting on a hill eating lunch with my family and we got to talking about four-leaf-clovers. I said, “You know, I have never found one.” Then I looked…
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Another Story about Student Teaching
When I started college, I knew exactly what I wanted to be: a teacher. I wanted to be a teacher for many years, all the way up until I actually did some teaching. Learning about how to teach did not prepare me at all for life on the other side of the overhead projector, and…
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On Writing: Lousy Finds from an LFL
In the last three weeks, I have read three books by three famous authors, and all three were very disappointing. The last one, in fact, disappointed me so much that after I read the last page, I stood up and chunked it across the room. Before the bibliophiles hunt me down, let me state my…
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Channeling Julie Andrews
With the foreseeable forecast being nothing but rain, rain, storms, and rain, I think I’ll take some time to reflect upon all the things in life that bring me joy. Things like: When my feet stick to the tub when I first get in the shower, and then I lift them up one by one…
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Is Writing Your Passion? Really?
On Writing: Questions to ask yourself. Wise & Shine Tell The Truth To Yourself, Not To Me (The image tells us that he’s a developer. But let’s assume he’s a writer.) I’m going to ask you this one question: Is writing authentically your passion? Understanding passion Long ago, I was in doubt. Is writing actually my…
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Just One More Thing…
It’s Friday night and I have had a very productive, very looong week. The last thing on my ToDo list was to write something for this blog, and then I’d be free to lounge on the couch while eating something I didn’t need to eat and watching something I’d seen 100 times before. But first…
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Neologisms for this day of fools
Irony, adj. Behaving like a heated, triangle-shaped hunk of metal. Ostracism, n – the worship of large, flightless birds Exposition, n. The precise location of a former lover. Flotilla, n – a naval unit of Mexican flat breads Protagonist, n. A person who supports the labeling of garments. Verb Tense, n. pl. What authors pack when they want to…
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Death of a Friendship
This week I shall tell you a tale of love…and woe. My story begins back in the 7th grade, when I met my best friend, Lisa. We were so close, one of us would spend the night at the other’s every weekend. We called each other’s mothers “Mom.” We shared a locker, clothes, even a…
Kate the Writer 