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Another excellent way for me NOT to blog! We’ll see how this goes.

I joined a writers website a while back called Helium.  I have always been interested in creative writing and they have different categories.  I mainly stay in the "Reflections" and "Poetry" categories.  They provide a topic…and you write.  This article is in Reflections - the topic is For Children.  Hope you enjoy it.

I love children, [...]

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Martha was my first love. I was young, immature, a good kid struggling with “who I was”. Looking back, I see that I was attracted to Martha’s spirit…she was such a bright light. The first time I saw her, I knew I wanted to know her…I knew I wanted her as part of my [...]

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I’ve been using some of the services provided at http://ideas.live.com and the newest thing I’m looking at is Windows Live Writer.  It allows me to create blog entries offline and publish them.  It also allows me to add rich content, so I’m going to try that now.
I am a fledgling digital artist and I’ve [...]

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Mom called, she was taking him to the clinic…
About an hour later, there was frantic ringing of the doorbell and knocking at the door.  I run to the door and there’s Eddie, my neighbor and Mom is standing next to him crying.  Eddie had seen her on the street and brought her up to [...]

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Pop star James Blunt has come to fame on the wings of his love song called You’re Beautiful. 
When I heard it the first time, it got on my nerves.  And I grew to hate it.  It begins as follows:
My life is brilliant. My life is brilliant. My love is pure. I [...]

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Ron and I marked our 15th anniversary by going to Fort Myers to visit my sister, Ginny, and her husband K. Don. We had a really nice visit. The only glitch was the weather was experiencing near record setting lows. They live in a lovely golf community, where the landscaping is thoughtfully manicured [...]

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ABC News reported on Good Morning America that there has been bombing in Iraq.
Are you fucking kidding me??
 

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#1 Drivers Certificates for Illegal Aliens
I hear that Tennessee government is considering giving illegal aliens drivers certificates. Does this make sense? Anyone? Anyone?
I think that the defining phrase ILLEGAL ALIEN should be the key information we should focus on. California and Texas are considering or have granted illegal aliens that [...]

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My coworker is excited at the prospect of a weekend of snow.  He imagines tooling down the hill next to his home on his belly atop a sled with his two sons riding on his back.
Snow holds no excitement for me.  That allure left me when I was of driving age and realized how the [...]

so anyway… I’m trying to figure out why I think about this blog when I’m in the john at work.  I think about bathroom etiquette.  How you don’t stand next to another guy at the urinals if there is another option.  How some men won’t crap if someone else is in the room and/or won’t [...]

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My partner’s father recently got out of the hospital.  He was having trouble breathing.  When they checked his heart rate, it was at 170bpm.  Normal is 60 to 100.  So they did a little investigation and found he had a mass on/in his lung, that was pressing against his heart.  Cancer was the first [...]

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We’re at our friends home, babysitting Baby Drew.  Six months old…adorable, SO adorable!  He looks like he’s a year old…big boy.  Of course we knew the babysitting experience would be different from just a visit.
     
It’s been a while since either of us have changed a diaper…that was my biggest concern.  The girls left notes [...]

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We went to see Brokeback Mountain on Friday afternoon, with Mom and Ron.  John and Deen met us there and, thankfully, saved us seats!
I tried to post about on Friday, but I had upgraded the blog software and it wasn’t behaving.  Which is probably best, because I was very “low” about it.  The movie [...]