Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title.
I Just Came Back (From a War)
Well enough of this nonsense baby Lookin like another Bob Marley day If [...]

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I’ve had family in town for 5 wonderful days.  Which makes me both  very productive – must not let dishes pile up in sink!  Litter box requires daily cleaning!  Cook, cook, cook, all those yummy dishes my kids won’t usually eat and my husband turns up his nose at, and very lazy – if I’m [...]

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There was much sweetness in the house today. My MIL carries most of the weight with the Thanksgiving cooking (turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, two stuffings, many veggies and casseroles, cranberry sauce, more than I can list here). The rest of us pitch in with a veggie or side dish, and I’ve adopted dessert [...]

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FLawed is >.< that close to being off to my editor.  It’s getting a final read through from the most trusted of critics.  Since said critic had a 3 day birthday this weekend, I’m cutting her some slack on the getting back to me part.
Right now it’s 20,780 words.  I bled a little for every [...]

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Hunting the Huntress is now available from the Sony online bookstore!

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I’ve got a bit of a morning ritual thing. Since I’m a bit bleary eyed at 5:30am (literally – I can’t open my eyes without putting in eye drops that simultaneously lubricate them from a night of drying out and make everything blurred for about 10 minutes) I depend on that ritual to ease me [...]

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Some places, I hear, have snow falling.  Lacey, fluffy, frigid stuff that looks pretty through the windows, less appealing up close.
We have no snow right now in Florida.  In fact, in my little corner of Florida, we have not had snow that survived it’s introduction to the ground since 1989.  Which was before I moved [...]

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Three Four Five things that worked like magic to make me happy this weekend :
UPS brought me my new espresso machine last night.  Yum, yum, yum.  Used last night, and used again this morning.
I cleaned today.  (And blogged about the need this morning at Beyond The Veil.)  The cleaning itself wasn’t so fun, but I [...]

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The bad – my espresso machine broke yesterday.
The busy – writing.
The upsetting – Supreme court decides security exercises are more important than protecting the ocean’s species.
Offered as a substitute until more entertaining thoughts come to mind :
(A caveat – I’m not sure cleaning the bathrooms yesterday translates to “You have amazing hygiene”, but I’ll take [...]

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