Archive for December, 2009
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Dec 31, 2009
Comments OffGoals not Resolutions.
Tomorrow brings a new year, a new decade. This past decade has not been the best for me with all the losses me and my family have endured. Fire, Hurricane, tornado, and death: losses that are all huge and hard to recover from, but as we begin this new year, this new decade, we are...
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Dec 27, 2009
Comments OffSome Observations about Christmas 2009
Everyone loves socks, especially fuzzy soft fleecy ones infused with aloe. There are really these things called “Butt Out” s that take the ass out of a deer… yes seriously. (wonder if they work on people) That a Deer “Grunt” sounds like a Fart. Nano bugs are like robot cockroaches on speed. Santa gets way...
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Dec 23, 2009
Comments OffGuest Blogger: Jim Erickson: Reviews TSO- Let it Snow.
I am doing something different in this post. I am posting a review by a Guest Blogger, my friend Jim Erickson who went to see this show in Wells Fargo Arena Tuesday, December 22. Perhaps by his words we can experience the magic and splendor of this show vicariously. Lasers and smokebombs – check. Staccato...
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Dec 20, 2009
Comments OffFinding my Christmas “Jolly”
Christmas week is upon us.. and I feel such a mix of emotions. I am usually very excited this time of year, like a child awaiting Santa’s visit. I remember many Christmas Eve’s sitting at the top of the steps waiting… falling asleep there even, and as soon as the clock chimed five a.m., the...
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Dec 16, 2009
Comments OffEntertaining Thoughts.
Today I am entertaining the thought of writing some fiction and putting some of it here perhaps. I need to work some more on my most recent novel. I have been working on it in my brain, mulling things over, contemplating story lines and ideas… turns to take with the plot.. rewrites, etc. I have...
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Dec 10, 2009
Comments OffSlide
Sometimes you just feel it… without anything specific being said… the step back, the slide away… and you wonder why. It’s in a change of tone, things not said, but there anyways… and does it sting any less? You wonder, was I imagining things? Am I still? You are left feeling a bit puzzled and...
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Dec 10, 2009
Comments OffSnow Days
The midwest was blanketed in white over the past couple of days. White out conditions prevailed over the entire state of Iowa as wind gusts up to 56 mph and higher blew up to 16 inches of snow around creating some drifts as high as fifteen feet. I live in the country, north of the...
