Category Archives: random stuff

relief today

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Deanna

Today one of my semi-regular guest blog posts is up at Relief. You may notice I tossed three blogger/writer friends’ links into the salad. A few sprouts, too; at least the mention of them. Here’s to pondering the end of the world as we know it.

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fiddling fun

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Deanna

I don’t mean to drag this on, but here’s a reminder you could win a book (autographed, even): Just comment or email me tonight, and you’ll be in a drawing. I decided, since my first commenter last post guessed who tomorrow’s guest blogger will be, that I’ll pick a random winner. There are two with … Continue reading →

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object smatter

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Deanna

I’m starting over. I was into a wonderful, rambling post about further musings on belief, and. Well. Maybe it wouldn’t have been wonderful to try plowing through on your way to a zillion other blogs, distractions, and weekend activities. So I shall attempt to concise things up a bit for next week. Anyway, one of … Continue reading →

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to begin again, again

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Deanna

We have bid farewell to the first month of 2010. I’ve started saying twenty-ten. I think someone told me to – I’m not sure. Anyway, it’s easier. Our first decade had to turn out as the 2000s. While a hundred years earlier people could easily say nineteen-oh-one, nineteen-aught-two, etc., twenty-oh-one wouldn’t have rolled off the … Continue reading →

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typewriter snippets

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Deanna

Remember (you who related to my post last week about my mom’s old Royal) how it felt to snug the sheet of typing paper into its place between the guides, to turn the carriage until the top of the page came around? If it was off-kilter, you pushed and held a release button while straightening … Continue reading →

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out in

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Deanna

Every year it happens. Just when everybody else revs up in excitement over NaNoWriMo, NaBloPoMo, and all the other greatest things to do in and around cyberland, I start to chill out. Or maybe it’s cozy up. Today our fire burned clear, strong, blithely, and glowingly throughout the hours, while chili simmered in the slow … Continue reading →

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cadence change

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Deanna

Simultaneously the huge, round spider and I frightened one another. On a precarious stool out front I swiped the big window, dislodging the unsuspecting arachnid. I’m sure she exclaimed something spiderish, while I said, “Oh! Ah! Ah!” and jumped backward. She scrambled beneath the window sill to remain completely hidden while I finished spraying, wiping, … Continue reading →

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in a meeting

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Deanna

Have you ever gotten hold of a new concept/idea and conferenced with yourself about it all afternoon? Weird, I know. But I am my enterprise’s go-getter, slacker, researcher, harried bookkeeper, and PR person. Today we’re all brainstorming, sending out for Yumm bowls, and trying not to drive one another insane. Hope we wrap things up … Continue reading →

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reading, ‘riting, and, you know…

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Deanna

I always thought saying the “three r’s” was kind of dumb, since only one of the words actually starts with “r.” But that’s visual me. The sounds work, mostly, for the words. A-rithmetic is what I should be focused on this afternoon, catching up with finances and such. Though I don’t know some days if … Continue reading →

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Izzard runs and belly laughs

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Deanna

Two things I never could’ve dreamed up appeared online today: 1. Comedian Eddie Izzard has been running marathons around the UK all summer. I mean, he has run one every day, six days a week. Amazing. You can read the story with a couple side interviews here. I came to enjoy Izzard’s stand-up humor almost … Continue reading →

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