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What? November 22nd?

Where has November gone? Some of you remember today as the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Some of you know November as NaNoWriMo – 50,000 words, 30 days, 0 excuses. While I do remember the death of JFK, I … Continue reading

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Day Twenty-one, NaPoWriMo

There on the floor, the unexpected. Finding a cat’s whisker is a rare event despite the multiple cats and their multitudinous whiskers. They seem unusually shed but it must happen like any hair, certainly more often than say the kitten’s … Continue reading

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Day Three NaPoWriMo 2018

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The slatted sky shows bars of light and gray this … Continue reading

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Day 19 of NaNoWriMo

So tonight I watched the counter tip over thirty thousand words and felt really good about it. And I get to blame the DayQuil for all the typos, right? Continue reading

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Tuesday, the 14th of NaNoWriMo

Anyway the mission was to get them there and back and then to find some way to get some words written. And that happened too. Continue reading

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