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Common Sense

If a novel’s called The Collapse of Camelot (or if that’s the working title, at least, and I hate it so much I really hope the editors will change it), and the basic plot of it is how one screwed up family’s screwed up choices effectively destroy Camelot, doesn’t it make sense for most of [...]

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Rice Redux

We had Macaroni and Cheese for supper tonight.  Not by choice.  By choice we were to have teriyaki chicken and long grain wild rice.  No, the Mac and Cheese was foisted upon us when we had no other alternative for sustenence.
As you recall, last week I burned the rice to a crisp in the microwave [...]

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Week In (End) Review

Has a week ever seemed long to you simply because you accomplished a lot during it?  Before I began my work-from-home author career, I didn’t fear boredom, but I did wonder if time would seem to drag by for me.  It never has in the fourteen months I’ve done it.  This week felt like it [...]

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Culinary Capers

That’s it.  I have tried to be a creative cook for the last time.  Well – I’m not sure if trying a new chicken seasoning packet counts as creative cooking.  I suppose I ought to say I have tried varying our menu for the last time.
McCormick Italian chicken seemed like such a good idea at [...]

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Bad news first, then the good

My neck hurts.  I’ve got a crick in it, which I can only assume means I slept in some strange angle.  Actually, the source of the pain is in my right shoulder, and seeing as I’ve got this tendency to sleep with my arms akimbo and slightly out-of-joint, I’d say it’s highly likely I woke [...]

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