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Academy Awards Movie Madness- Dallas Buyers Club
It’s that time of year again– awards season! Each year I try to see each of the Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees. Last year I managed to see six out of nine of the nominees and blogged about them. Feel free to check out last year’s posts if you are procrastinating or bored. They are Continue reading
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If you write it . . .
One of my all-time favorite movies is Field of Dreams (1989; Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee 1990). Baseball, Iowa, James Earl Jones, Shoeless Joe, dreams, hopes, tears . . . sigh. I first watched Field of Dreams in a lecture hall my freshman year of college on dollar movie night. I remember hiding my face as I Continue reading
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NaNo Update and The Daily Prompt
Hi Everyone! Well, I’m still chugging along with my word count for National Novel Writing Month but wanted to take some time out to post an update. My problem now seems to be that my NaNo story is going in a totally different direction than I’d planned. If “characters drive plot” then my characters are Continue reading
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Daily Prompt- Trick or Treat, and Halloween “Hi”
Today’s Daily Prompt from The Daily Post reads: If bloggers had their own Halloween and could go from blog to blog collecting “treats,” what would your blog hand out? You can see the prompt and other answers here. After some careful thought, I decided that I would hand out coffee. You’d totally come visit if Continue reading
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Pearl Jam: Hartford, Connecticut
I wanted to tell you all about my AWESOME weekend but I have to disclose that it’s 10:42 p.m. exactly as I type this first sentence– which is late for an old lady like me, so we’ll see how it goes. You may run into typos and terrible grammar, but I’m just going to barf Continue reading
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“Passed” vs. “Past”
Today a co-worker asked me whether you ran something “past” someone, or ran it “passed” someone. After a google search and a minor debate, we decided that we “ran something by” someone. Avoidance of grammar rules is always the easiest route. Tonight I thought I’d delve into that question a little. To all of you Continue reading
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Breaking Bad Withdrawal- “Jesse Pinkman Lives” Fan Fiction
I’m not sure about all of you out there in Blogtropolis, but I’m missing Breaking Bad. Yeah, The Walking Dead premiered Sunday night and it was good (not great, in my opinion), but despite TWD, Scandal and my other favorite shows premiering, as well as Knicks preseason, the NFL (including the Jets being better than the Giants so Continue reading
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Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge Fail
Tonight I thought I’d try a new writing challenge. Chuck Wendig, author, screenwriter, game designer, and blogger extraordinaire, hosts a weekly writing challenge. You can find his post and his blog, “terribleminds: chuck wendig” here. This week, he provides two columns of words. The challenge is to pick a word from column one, then pick Continue reading
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Apologies, Random Comments, and a Shout Out to Sweetness
Hello, WordPress World! Just a quick post with some random thoughts to share. First, apologies for writing that dreadful (yet FICTIONAL people!) parenting post and then dropping you all like a hot potato! You may have been Waiting on a Word, but we’re Waiting on a Baby (my sister-in-law was due last Saturday and still we Continue reading
Waiting on a Word 
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