January 2012
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Lets get older and be where we're going already.
Let’s be in a house of our own. Let’s be done with school and working hard. Let’s have a field of daffodills in the back of our yard. Let’s be alone sometimes, once in a while, or maybe even more often. Let’s have a sun room where you can knit and I can write. Let’s not be working nights and weekends anymore. Let’s be open to adventure and have the time...
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Preface to that last story I posted:
I wrote The Demise of Dearest Ned when Cj and I were in the airport coming back from North Carolina for thanksgiving. He was trying to read Game of Thrones, and I was musing on how the author made “fantasy names” by simply changing one letter in an average name (for example: Eddard instead of Edward, Rickard instead of Richard… you get the idea). Anyway this one character Eddard...
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The Demise of Dearest Ned
A short story:
Once upon the dark ages, in a country you may or may not have ever heard of, there was a traveling salesman known affectionately as Ned. He was an average man. Ned was of average height and average weight, he wore average clothes, he had brown hair and brown eyes and generic looking features. The only thing above average about him was a spectacular and meticulously styled...
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Some thoughts for 2012...
Everyone keeps saying “This is the year!” and “This year are going to be different!” but not me. Usually I am right on that bandwagon, the rush of something new, that feeling like you can do anything! That hope that maybe you’ll do all the things you keep saying you’re doing that you just haven’t had a reason to start yet…
But I don’t think...
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