Anywhere a Mouse Can Go

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The one about grammar and rodents… In our part of the country, middle school students are taught the trick for identifying prepositions: anywhere a mouse can go. For example:  a mouse can go inside your closet and induce your wrath by leaving his mousey mark on stacks of folded blankets and clothing a mouse can go around the live trap … Read More

Libras Do It With Balance

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Source: Cheri3380346 (among others) This ecard pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? But I still wanna write about it. So here goes. Sometimes I wish I were back in the 50s. No, not really, but I would be a lot less busy. Women today juggle full-time jobs outside or inside of the home, plus we tend to take on a majority … Read More

Publishing, Indie Style

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So there I was, sitting at an open-call meeting of a local writing group. The man beside me had a strangely large, square volume with him that he claimed was for sale from the trunk of his car, on Amazon, and perhaps Barnes and Noble’s website. Although he hadn’t bothered to check yet. He’s already sold about two dozen copies. Not … Read More

Momma loves you. Now go play.

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I remember being around eight, which means my sister was just past two. Our house was on the long edge of a racetrack-shaped subdivision: the loop. Man-O-War, to be exact, just like the racehorse. And every morning my mother would run this loop a dozen times or more. My sister and I would sit in the bay window seat overlooking … Read More