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Political outburst
An idea for health care: If we’re going to go into economic crippling debt for this, maybe can we just bypass insurance companies and have the gov directly build clinics, pay for the education of docs who go into primary care, and pass tort reform? Then at least we’d have something more useful than profit…
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The Killers Concert
I’d said right after the concert was done that I would blog about it, so my oldest daughter has been waiting for this post. So I guess I must. It isn’t that I don’t want to write about it. It is just that I have had second thoughts about how much I want to say.…
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Downsizing my email collection
So, I got a new computer. It’s a tablet PC with hours and hours of battery power. Joy! As I was contemplating my email, I thought of just starting over. Then I realized, that there is just too much I’d lose. But there is also more than I want, with over 4000 emails. I decided…
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Who gets to define bad science?
If you know me, you know I’m religious. A faithful Mormon to be exact. And you know that I’m skeptical. There is a church in the area I live that has a sign with sayings posted on it. This week, the quote is “The real opium of the masses is bad science.” Hmmmm. That could…
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Vladimir has a blog!
My husband isn’t much of a writer, though he is a great story teller. As many know, he is also an artist and is responsible for most of the artwork in our book, Vue 7 From the Ground Up. So his blog is mostly pictures he has created, though he’ll write a few things too.…
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Upgrade and makeover
No news that everyone needed to upgrade wordpress if they hadn’t recently to 2.8.4. So I did and of course it was harder than it should have been. Once I was doing that, it was time to change things around and get a few widgets installed and finally get that bibliography and story pages I’ve…
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50 K Words, 20 Stories in Nov
So, the last few years I have considered myself unable to do Nanowrimo. Good reasons: Last year I actually was writing a book in November, and got 70K words done in about 2 months. Non-fiction doesn’t count, though, and I took the contract with a 2 month deadling. Novels don’t fit in there. Also, there…
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First impressions of a really new school
So after some inspiration from my sister, Tonya, I enrolled my eleven year old daughter into a charter school. Her friend situation at the other school wasn’t the best, and I felt lukewarm about both the teachers and the principal who seemed less supportive of the accelerated program my daughter was in. Since I’d come…
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Acrylic nails
So just days before I left on my trip, the worst of all disasters occurred: I broke a nail. I don’t usually care about all that. Writing involves typing, and short nails are typically good. But I was going to present, and I like to use my hands a lot, so they had to look…
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Writing goals and changes
I’ve been starting to come to a realization lately. My work at Geekatplay will simply not let up enough for me to concentrate on my writing career as much as I’d like. I’ve decided to not focus on getting a novel done this year, but instead to write short stories for a few more years.…