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Get Off My Yard … or Be Good … or …

Yesterday, Max and I were in Ames, picking up sandwiches after doing busy stuff. The shop sits right on a small pond where Canada (edited – it’s NOT Canadian) Geese spend a great deal of time. Across the pond is a putt-putt course. It was packed

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Get Off My Yard … or Be Good … or …

Illustration by Bec Schrieber Yesterday, Max and I were in Ames, picking up sandwiches after doing busy stuff. The shop sits right on a small pond where Canada (edited – it’s NOT Canadian) Geese spend a great deal of time. Across the pond is a putt-putt

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Who Do You Admire?

I was looking through some old writings of mine and came upon this one from October of 2012. You know what? Nothing has changed.  Last week I worked through a creative exercise from Julia Cameron’s “The Complete Artist’s Way.” I was to list five people

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Reading – My Passion

I’m going to try to get through this post without complaining about the stupid snow that decided to fall on the Midwest today. Wish me luck. This has been a busy week. I’ve officially started writing Book 22. It always feels good to get the

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Spring is Springing

This afternoon I pulled down the cat tree that stood in the front window for the last few years. It’s been dying a slow and miserable death since the day I tripped and crashed into it, breaking the corner of a support. Stupid pressboard wood.

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