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Saturday, August 31, 2019

How to Paint a Room in Ten Easy Steps

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1. Prep-work prep-work prep-work! It's been said that 90 percent of painting is prep-work. Okay, I don't know if that's actually...
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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Please let me pay my fine

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The library where I work has gone fine-free. This is a not-new idea (but new to our little community) that libraries should be about makin...
Monday, August 12, 2019

The other day I scraped the backside of my car against a concrete post

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I was backing out of my spot in a parking garage. A friend and I had driven to Dayton to give talk to our writers' group there. It had ...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

One of my friends taught the young woman who died in the mass shooting in Dayton

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She wrote a tribute on Facebook. The young woman was in her class at the Antioch Writers' Workshop. Her name was Megan Betts. She was t...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

On outhouse treasures and stolen ashes, aka: Things I Learned on My Summer Vacation

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In no particular order: 1. That antique store in Selma, North Carolina where they only sell old glass bottles and you ask the owner, Hey, ...
Friday, July 26, 2019

The River Wild

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I didn't sign up for this but my more adventurous friend, who is acting as the cruise director for our vacation, found the Level Three...
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Sunday, July 21, 2019

I can't find my sneakers

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Or the Q-tips. The house is a maze of still-unpacked boxes. Books, mostly, because we have no built-in bookcases in this house. But also, bi...