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A Little About Toastmasters
This week has been a busy one. I publish my blog on Sundays, usually around 11:00 a.m., but it’s normally written by Saturday night at the latest. Today is Sunday. It’s 9:46 a.m. and I’m just now writing. I’ve got a ton of stuff to do today, so I’m trying to get this finished and posted. I’ve been sitting here…
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Got Somethin’ Better to Do?
There’s a lot to writing a book and having it published. I always imagined authors sitting at their desks, madly pecking away on their big, clunky typewriters as they created a work of art that was sure to win the Pulitzer, or at least be in the running. They’d type, “The End,” and triumphantly rip the paper out of the…
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Cream & Sugar with that?
Rejection—don’t like it, don’t want it. Unfortunately, I have no choice, because it’s not like I’m at a restaurant and when the waiter asks if I want my coffee refilled I can reply, “Nah, I’ve had enough, thank you,”; rejection ain’t coffee, and it looks like my cup’s getting filled to the brim, regardless if I want it. As with certain brands…
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Miracle Baby
November 6, 2013. That was the day I got some new brothers. Sort of. You see, they’d always been my brothers, I just didn’t know that they were. In order for this to make sense, I need to take you back in time with me…we’re traveling to the late 1960’s, so put on your bell-bottoms and your tie-dyed t-shirts because…
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Change
2019 is two days away. Once again, gym memberships will soar and members will have to wait their turn to use the machines. That will last a couple of months until New Year’s Resolutionists (yes, I think I made that word up) revert back to their 2018 habit of sitting on the couch, watching Netflix. Diets will start and end.…
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Marshmallows & Jello Molds
During the last couple of days, the internet has been trying to give me a topic for this week. It handed me two gifts, both wrapped in the newspaper funnies section, having neither bows nor ribbons. Both times, I thought, “Oh, that’s nice,” and absentmindedly put them off to the side while I continued to search my brain for something…
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The More, the Merrier
Ask anyone who knows me…my memory sucks. When someone asks me a question about anything from more than a year or two ago, they’re probably not going to get an answer or I’m going to direct them to my sister because she remembers everything. It’s even worse if I try to recall something from my childhood. For some reason, my…
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Real Queens & Kings
I’ve said before that I get a lot of my ideas from things I see on Facebook; this week’s blog idea is a shining example of that. The other day, I saw a meme on Facebook that said, “Real queens fix each other’s crowns,” and it got me to thinkin’. The gist of the message is that women should build…
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Ghosts of Christmas Past
A Christmas Carol…what a wonderful story. I can’t speak for anyone else, but out of all of the Christmas specials and stories, that one makes me feel the Christmas-iest. Written by Charles Dickens and published in 1843, it is so Christmas-y, that it wasn’t until after its publication that people began to commonly celebrate Christmas as a festive holiday. We…
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