Category: musings
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I am pie
If you wanted to express to others about who I was, after my death, done in the vein of an artist [see: Museum Honours Late Artist.] you would see the floor covered in lemon merengue pie. And I mean, the whole thing. Graham cracker biscuit crumb base held together with butter, layered on top the…
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A Ray of Sunshine …
Look, white puffy clouds and glimpses of sunshine and blue skies … the Swiss Chalet house We had to take a walk to the pharmacy to go collect the mad potion for my colonoscopy next Friday, Jul 3. We walked passed what I call the Swiss Chalet house. One of my favs in the area.…
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Q&A with author, Steph Broadribb
The first question has to be, how did a girl from Birmingham (in the UK) end up training as a bounty hunter, in the US? It was all in the name of research! Once I knew that Lori Anderson would be a bounty hunter I knew I needed to find out as much as I…
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Did I?
Ah, that is the question, isn’t it. Did I or did I not pre-order the new Commodore Callback flip phone. A wonderful retro Motorola style phone harking back to our innocent days before Apple burst our bubble and got us all hooked on so-called ‘smart’ phones, doom scrolling into the wee small hours of the…
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A Million Words
I’m following in David’s footsteps from over at Forking Mad, when he asks: What things are easy for you to write about? What things are hard? As someone who has written literally millions of words and curated just as many since moving into print and publishing, it’s a mute point as to what’s hard and…
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Be Authentic
You don’t have to become an expert on a subject to write about it, but you do have to do research and due diligence in order to write with authority and make your work sound plausible. Authenticity is key, that’s why I love authors who do their research like Steph Broadribb, author of the Lori…
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Zombie Cults
Truly, it’s quite frightening when you stop to think about it, organised religions are nothing short of zombie cults. Nearly everyone of them promotes and pushes the premise of us all being resurrected at some future point, to the greater glory of the whatever god (small g) it is they’re pushing. They’re resurrecting what, exactly?…
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Slow Week
I’m having a slow week, this week. That’s to be expected given the weather seems to be alternate days of drizzle or rain, broken up by the odd afternoon, or morning of dry. We haven’t really seen the sun(shine) since the weekend and, according to the weather report last night, we won’t see it again…