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How to Write Essays to a Prompt for Tests, Work, or School
Sample Prompt: Explain a complicated process that you can do well to someone who doesn’t know how to do it. If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows....
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How to Write a Synopsis for Your Next Big Project: A Synopsis
A fallen ego maniac, I had the idea that because I am so old and have written for so long that I must know how to do what I do every day – WRITE — and be pretty good at it. hahaha Teachers think that,...
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Klutz of the Year Award: The Art of Falling Without Breaking Anything
I have awarded myself the Klutz of the Year Award. Any of you may claim this award for yourself, if you like. But tell us why you deserve it! My mother said my small feet caused me to fall all the...
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Photo Challenge: Scale
On a scale of 1 to 10 with ten being the most organized and 1 being piled to the ceiling with recipes and newspaper clippings, I would give my writing area a 4. It took over 500 words to list all the...
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Winter in Woodlake Valley
The scenes as I walked along Millwood Drive took my breath away. Maybe if I stayed in shape… Eventually my husband picked me up and we enjoyed the warm photoshoot together. While our eastern friends...
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Do you need to lose weight? I do.
Eating out has always been the primary entertainment in my family. I like to eat, and I have a healthy appetite. When I was young my eyes were too big for my stomach, but that has changed. Martha,...
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Is Social Media the New Reader, Or Is It Just Laziness?
Don’t get me wrong, I love blogging and love my blogging friends. But I’m frustrated. When I’m busy, I spend my time on quickie social media and not my blog. I take a quick picture when I’m walking or...
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: My Favorite Things, Chorus
When Tule Fog hits the Woodlake Valley, the best thing to do is stay home until visibility is better. By ten o’clock this morning the fog had dissipated some, and I wanted to do something fun. I...
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Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds
Rule of thirds challenges me unless I have a 9 grid overlaying the photo or viewfinder. Since I’ve never seen a viewfinder like that, I confess that these shots became rule of thirds after the camera...
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Iconic America: Bob’s Old Barn
Who doesn’t love old barns? It’s un-American to hate barns, the image of rural life that once predominated in this country. Today the golden hour arrived with dark gray ominous clouds in the east and...
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Reward: What Does It Mean To Me?
I think accomplishments reward me. Frankly there is no reward great enough to recompense a person for the amount of effort they put into a project. For example, why blog? Is it because someone rewards...
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Cows Suffer Sex Discrimination
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is always great. This one is right up my alley, so to speak. A factoid: Do you see how they have paved a road across the lawn? Cows and Native American foot traffic created...
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Want A Beautiful 1.25 Acres in the Country?
A few years ago Vince and I purchased five acres of beautiful property, and subdivided it into four parcels. Three have sold. Two have beautiful homes, and my favorite remains. We thought it had sold...
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Graceful Is As Graceful Does
You all know that I am the Klutz Queen of the Universe, but there are other kinds of gracefulness. Last week I looked around my yard where grace and beauty abound thanks to my hubby, Vince. To me there...
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Organizing – a Fresh Start or the Kiss of Death?
It’s spring, time for a fresh start Spring gives me clutterphobia. In the spring, after a winter of projects, clutter creeps up on me like the consequences of a young female kitty with outdoor...
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The Deliberate Blur: Retirement?
We looked forward to our vacation in Sedona for weeks, and we’ve already been home for two days. What happened? Sights seemed clear enough when we were there. We stopped at a wonderful museum in...
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Spanish Baby Liam & The Californian Bear
Originally posted on Bluefish Way:Oh, come on cats ! They are good kids. And Sonic, stop ripping up my pants ! Some of you, dear commenters, have asked how Liam is. Liam is Toni & Pedro’s baby. The...
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Good Morning, World
It’s four in the morning here in California as I write to you for the first time in weeks. I have a good reason – for not writing, that is. “Really? What possible reason could be good enough for not...
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