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Month: April 2013

Glorious Mess

Glorious Mess

The other night I was giving my daughter a bath and had to pull out a new towel.  By the time it had taken me to turn my back and pull out a new towel, my daughter had taken her cup and spilled water all over the side of the tub and onto the floor.  Now, my initial reaction to all that water and suds was horror.  I mean, now I was going to have to clean all this up!…

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Quiet happy moments…I’ll take one of those

Quiet happy moments…I’ll take one of those

Recently my family went through some trying times to include a surgery for my baby girl’s eyes.  I can say that even being deployed to a war zone didn’t come close to the stress and fear that I had when they wheeled my baby girl back for her surgery.   Today, we got some really great news from her doctor.  The surgery seems successful and my daughter’s eyes are doing so well that they think her vision is better than…

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Book Hangover

Book Hangover

I’m at the point of time known as the ‘book hangover;’ the time after I finish a good book and can’t decide which new book I want to read.  I have a couple of craft books that I need to finish, but even that seems like too much right now. 🙂  My favorite genre’s are romance and YA, but, as I’m waiting for another Nora Roberts book to come out, what should I read? (Image from Google Images) Have you…

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Discussion about writing prompts

Discussion about writing prompts

I was reading an exert from Writer’s Digest about writing prompts and I couldn’t help but control a quick grimace.  See, I’ve had an awkward experience with a writing prompt that makes me leery of any I hear about now.  When I was in this group once, I took a prompt and wrote a whole short story from it.  It was so cool and I was really proud of myself.  The prompt was something like, “talk about something embarrassing,” and…

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