Monthly Archives: November 2017

Day 21, NaNoWriMo — Green at Last!

That magic moment when the bar in the bar chart touches the goal line! Woot! Tonight at ten o’clock I crossed over to the green – caught up in NaNoWriMo. Par! I holed up today and wrote and wrote and … Continue reading

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Things Found By My Mother

If you are delayed after school โ€” or on a date โ€” be sure to call home to save the folks worrying. 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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Then and Now – Gettysburg and Beyond

Looking back,I first posted these words here in 2015 after an incident in Baltimore triggered violence and looting. I reposted them two years later, a month after this president took office and thinking about what it means to be American … 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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