Category Archives: Musings

Stop the madness!

frustrated

Today, I do not want to hear about, learn about or think about updates or improvements to yet another “social media” tool or platform. (And yes, I know many of  you don’t call them “tools”, but I’m feeling particularly snarky about them today, so that’s what I’m gonna’ call them) If I hear one more…

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What a difference a week makes

Ernest Hemingway

I’ve been MIA. Gone. Sequestered. Minimal online activity. Maximum solitude. And it was great. A few weeks ago I decided to go on what I called my “Ernest Hemingway writing retreat”. My intention was to squirrel myself away, in isolation, for one week, to write…and write…and write…and write. And I did. I put no parameters…

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Quoting Quality Contributers – The Alphabet Series Continues with Letter Q

Queue

Ralph Dopping suggested the word Quandary, and that’s what I was in when I wondered…how many “Q” words will people submit? Barbara Klein was first in the Queue with the word queue, but she questioned whether the word, a quotidian word for line-up, was commonplace. In Barbara’s words: “to queue, an admirable custom the British…

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