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Busting Down the Barriers of Writing Writing is obviously, rather simply put, putting words onto a page. Well, these days it tends to happen that we are putting words onto a *screen*, but you get my gist. The art is in just *keeping on doing it*. Ultimately, it doesn't always matter *what* you write. It matters that you *simply* write. It's not even always about having an idea, necessarily. Although starting with one certainly helps. There is an old adage about a great…
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Off to Paducah We Are A lot of the time when I come in here, I am more prone to try to write something interesting or profound or share some piece of information that I find compelling in some way or another. Not that I always succeed, and not that I am going to, in one fell swoop, tell you that I am a grand writer with even grander talent and everything I write is a must read. I am as prone to writing crap as anyone is, of course. And that's not to suggest that anyone is…
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Aging Parents Can Be Life Altering It is becoming a bit of a difficult time in my life. As my mother ages, there are things happening that suggests she may be suffering from either dementia or Alzheimer's. Things I have noticed for a while that my sister was not, at first, necessarily in agreement with that there was something going on. Or she was in denial. In many ways, you could say the same of me. I didn't *want* to admit I saw anything. We were noticing the typical…
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Just stopped in to see what's happening on noise.app. Nothing. Stepping back out. lol
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Buildings Things is Sometimes Hard It sounds like a bit of a no-brainer, and perhaps even common sense, to make a statement like, "If things were easy, they wouldn't be hard," but when you start to break it down a little bit and expand on the idea of it, suddenly it makes a lot of sense. It's hard to make a lot of money in life and become rich. It's hard to become a super-star athlete or become a rock star who fills stadiums for a concert. It's hard to become a celebrity…
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When Icons Fall Down There are certain celebrities that just *charm* us from time to time, and for a variety of reasons. Each one that does simply has a certain quality or *thing* about them that gets your attention and clicks. Not that I am ever one to be giddy over any star. To me, they are regular people just like you and I that simply happen to have a spot in the limelight. If I meet one in person, I don't find myself particularly enamored other than feeling a bit…