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Write what you know. . .
a standard piece of writing advice, origin unknown

She was an unlikely muse for an unbelievable story. Beautiful, but troubled. Hard-headed, but short-sighted. Brave, but fearful. A grown woman, but in many ways still the little girl from Texas, weaving colorful dreams from the drab scraps of reality. She wanted to […]

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I felt some distant and familiar calling the night after Anna Nicole Smith died.
Images of her would not leave my mind as I laid down to sleep.  Anna, head thrown back laughing. Anna with wounded eyes; shell-shocked by the cruelty of shock jock Howard Stern’s radio show. Anna saying he’s shy; Daniel’s shy. Gazing at him […]

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I’ve often held down two or more jobs, to make ends meet, or to learn new skills, or to save for something I really wanted that I couldn’t otherwise afford. Years ago, in my twenties, my primary profession was advertising.  An honorable enough profession, but in the area I lived in the salary didn’t buy […]

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I promised you a beginning, a middle and an end. This is none of the above, but a late intermission, a musical side story before the curtain goes back up, a near-ending.
For me, journeys nearing the end are reminiscent of lullabies and other tender, wistful things, but I am a romantic. Not the diamonds, roses, […]

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