Wednesday, January 30, 2008

More Bliss

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Update to THE LIAR'S DIARY/American Cancer Society challenge: If you are new to this thread, read the post below, A Double Shot of Patry...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

A Double Shot of Patry and a Hit of Bliss

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Patry Francis woke me up last November with her blog post called Two Ounces of Bliss . In her quiet and gracious way, Patry revealed that s...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Water For Elephants, Hay For Horses

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If you've been reading Ovations for any length of time, you know I am an animal lover. I live in an area of Southern California known as...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

What do you notice?

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LitPark has an interview with Dan Passamaneck about observation. I found his remarks so true to the core that you'll just have to read...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Faces of Beauty: Women in Art

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This is one of the most brilliant digital compositions I've yet to behold. It was created by a digital artist who calls himself eggman91...
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Friday, December 21, 2007

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I have been buried with work the last few weeks and haven't had a moment to spare. Here's wishing all of you a happy, healthy, holid...
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Sunday, November 25, 2007

RIP: Princess Jasmine 1995-2007

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Had our neighbors been peeking into our yard tonight they may have thought BassMan and I were up to no good. Earlier in the day BassMan dug ...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

In the Tent of Revision

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It's November. National Novel Writing Month. If you've been reading Ovations for more than a year, then you'll remember that I w...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Meet Buck

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It's official. We have a new dog. We weren't looking for a new dog, nor an old one. It turns out our new dog isn't exactly new....
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Report from the California Firelines

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Like much of the nation my eyes and heart have been following the story of the California wildfires. My home is not in a high-risk fire zon...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Breath & Shadow Update

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Remember this post from last May? Thanks to many of you who sponsored me in the Breath & Shadow write-a-thon, you can take an advance p...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Descent into Mordor?

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Yesterday as my daughter and I drove westbound on I-10 through the Banning Pass, I snapped this camera phone picture of the smoke from the m...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Maid of the Year

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Irony is this. I attended the Motivation Show in Chicago and stayed at the the City Centre Hotel. I didn't want to carry around a large ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Fluffing Up the Empty Nest

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Two weeks ago we drove our youngest child, Jonathan, to college in Kansas. Our oldest, Elisabeth, returned to her campus last week. We are n...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Books I Read on Vacation

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I’ve been composing this post in my head since returning from vacation to a billion business emails, a SITE-SoCal meeting, and getting my so...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Chesapeake Bay: July 2007

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I didn’t think it was possible to be so blissed-out that I couldn’t write. Chesapeake Bay did that to me. Three years ago we stayed at the C...
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Experienced Only Need Apply

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My first published short story is up at The Rose & Thorn e-zine. Check it out here: Experienced Only Need Apply and let me know what yo...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Five Days in Orlando

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There’s heat and then there’s Florida heat. Hailing from the West Coast, where I’ve sweated out triple digits at Anaheim’s Disneyland, I tho...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007

Our Pet Cemetery Grows By One

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In the wayback of our half-acre yard we have a substantial pet cemetery. The ground was consecrated only a few weeks after we moved in when...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Celebrate Freedom

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The USA is mired in some sticky gunk right now, but it's my home. What a better way to say Happy Birthday America than with fireworks o...