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Tag: Life
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Hurry Up and Wait
Life seems to vacillate between two states: rushing frantically to do something, and waiting until you can do the thing.
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Pace Yourself
I’m possibly the worst person conceivable to talk about pacing. No, no, not in my writing – although that is a matter of personal taste and mood. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a slowly unfurling work of great linguistic beauty and deeply evolved characters. Other times I want it full of action or I…
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Guest Post: The Heart of the Matter
Amie Gibbons has a new book out! She’s on a blog tour as a result of it, guesting at other’s blogs with some lovely writing that isn’t her fiction as a sample of what you can get between her covers. If you haven’t yet read one of her books, they are fun romps – sweet…
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Plot Twist
If you’re interested in a brief take on drugs in fiction, dealing with drug discovery and cancer and aging… anyway, I have an article over at Mad Genius Club today. You may have noted there was no update last night, despite my having promised one in the morning. That’s because nothing happened. The mystery of…
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Hurdles
I ran when I was younger. (Now, it would probably kill me, but I digress). No, really! I may be short, and as my beloved husband describes my body shape, sturdy, but I could run. I wasn’t a sprinter, but I could endure for the long runs, and I preferred cross country running, usually barefooted.…
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Don’t Blink
I think that was a weekend, but I’m not sure. It was kinda fast and blurry. I blinked at the wrong time, and suddenly it’s Monday. When coming to work is a moment to relax and look forward to, you know you’re doing something wrong. We’re trying to slow it down, but it’s a bit…
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Stolen Time
This weekend I managed some reading time. Yesterday, I managed some nature time. Feeding my soul tidbits to keep me going through this season in life where there is so much to be done, and so little time to do it in. Deadlines rushing up at you like a bull charging do tend to concentrate…
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A Right to Freedom
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” How long has it been since you last read the Declaration of Independence? Yes, it was a political document, written…
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Arachnophilia
I was listening to the radio on the way into work this morning. Let me back up a little. Our morning starts with himself up early, and then I get up about six, and he usually asks me how I slept as the lights come on. This morning, I told him in response to that:…
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Live Free or Die
That’s what my shirt says today, anyway. I’m wearing one of my old tees that I picked up in N’Ampsha with the state motto on it. And an eagle that is more cute than fierce, although I don’t think that was the intention of the designer. I was thinking about the motto on my way…
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Experimentum Periculosum
Continuing with Hippocrates’ pithy philosophical statement, we find that experiment is dangerous. As I am working in a chemistry lab, I have to say that indeed, it is. Even tried and true methods will occasionally fail, and many use dangerous chemicals in the course of carrying out an assay. But yet, we continue. Safety is…
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Occasio Praeceps
Hippocrates’ pithy summary of life continues with ‘opportunity is fleeting.’ We all know the cliches – seize the moment, and so forth. But how true is it, really? Yesterday I discussed life is short mostly in terms of my own life span, but the reality is that when this aphorism was coined, the life span…