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Wednesday Writers Workshop: Using Music to Amp Your Creativity

02.29.2012

I mostly hone in on the emotional notes of what I’m working with. It’s how what I see or hear or smell or taste makes me–or a character I’m writing about–feel that I want to focus on.

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The Last Blind Date, by my new BFF

10.31.2011

And that ego drubbing was what made her realize “how dearly I needed a support system. And not just the kind made of spandex.”

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Happy Valentine’s Day

02.14.2011

Do you care that your card, flowers, gift are bought at the local supermarket?

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Dancing to the Beat of A Deeper Drum

11.29.2010

I’m dancing to my own drummer these days. I’m still not wearing any more makeup than I did years ago. I write with an obvious lack of restraint and share unmentionable stories, all of which surely won’t endear me to the right kind of man.

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Planning For The Rest of My Life

10.25.2010

Part of that personal plan is going to address my new status as a single woman. I’ve been here several times in recent years and one would think I’d have the whole without a man thing firmly in control by now. Alas.

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The Runaway Bride Syndrome: Accommodating Yourself Out Of Existence

09.23.2010

“Entitled,” he said, with disdain. And, you know what, I am entitled–to a life of comfort and satisfaction as defined by me. Of course, that wasn’t the way he meant it.

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