Save of the Day

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon
  1. Go to Stewarts.
  2. Get a quart of eggnog.
  3. Tell the nice person behind the counter you’d like a shake made with some of this eggnog and vanilla ice cream.
  4. Pay for the eggnog and the shake.
  5. Let them put the eggnog in a plastic bag so you don’t slosh everything on the way home.
  6. Thank them profusely.
  7. Enjoy the wonderful eggnog shake and forget all the nonsense that happened during the day.

Good to the last drop

If that doesn’t totally fix everything:

  1. Pour a short glass full of remaining eggnog.
  2. Pour a liberal amount of rum or brandy into glass.
  3. Stir.
  4. Repeat until fixed.
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Warez MB? Late October version

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

I made a decision as to where part one of my story ends. So the end needs a little work to make it fully the end but that’s ok. The End. Sort of anti-climatic since I sort of felt it was the end when I got there but it felt like there was more to tell so I kept going.

Having decided that it was THE END at that point means I have a mild start to tell the next part of the story but it had gotten muddled because I was busy looking for the end. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Not the real story but my story about writing down the story. In any case, having a chance to start the next part of the story means that I get to NOT write for a bit while waiting for NaNoWriMo to start on November first.

See? That’s just perfect? I can do research or rewrite or absolutely nothing at all and be doing what I’m supposed to be doing which is NOT start writing the next part. Perfect.

What else… Today I received or shared six – that’s right – six hugs. That might be an all time record number of hugs at work. Just that kind of day. Plus my cousin Bill and his wife Chris and Chris’s friend came to visit me at work and so there was a bit of family time at work too.

At lunch time, since I didn’t have to ponder deep writerly thoughts I did some research and decided it was possible that I saw a bobcat the other day in my driveway. I definitely had a big owl swoop across the hood of my car the other night. That gave me quite the scare. Oh and I found a good sized field mouse in the hall downstairs. A gift from the cat gods. Yes the mouse was an ex-mouse.

I’m sure there’s more but I forget.

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The collision of time and place

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

and TEDxAlbany


This is where TEDxAlbany 2013 is being held and for those who have been around my family for awhile you’ll recognize it as being where my parents were married in 1951…

**brain implodes**

You can click on the small circles under the main image for views of what they’ve done on the inside.

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The Apples Have Arrived!

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Meet the Arkansas Black!

Arkansas Black

Kristy’s Barn had called to say they’d started picking my favorite apple, the Arkansas Black. Hard, tart, great for caramelizing as in Apple Tarte Tatin (declared a traditional dessert a couple years ago in the Frezon family).

After picking up a supply of Arkansas Blacks, I spent a good bunch o’time trying to make an angry moment via words and adding about 1500 words altogether to the NaNoWriMo story. All in all a good day.

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The Everything of it All

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Mary Beth Frezon

Solveig, 2010 Detail

Blog post Number 500 for the year, so I’m good with spreading a little Quote Box love around:

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? – Ludwig van Beethoven

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King

I can’t always reach the image in my mind… almost never, in fact… so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it. — Chuck Close

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. — Johannes Brahms

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all. — Rita Mae Brown

People who are not artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don’t have time to be inspired. — John Cage

Going upstairs now to see if I can figure out what the heck my main character needs to do to finish this tale before November first.

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