Category Archives: emotion

On Ulcers, and Querying, and Rejectamenta

What? A week? It’s been a week since my Last Brilliant Post? How does such a thing happen? I’ll tell you how it happens. You just go ahead and live a little of your life and your blogging time diminishes to a little sparkly crystal of preciousness which you hold near your heart and stare...

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Back to High School

It was bizarre how it brought out the best and the worst in the crowd. We went to the high school basketball game last night. I love basketball. I love the never-stop, run-run-run, high scoring action. I love high school basketball because of the community that it envelops. But I have to say, high school...

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Power of a Word: Wherein I Uncover my Bald Spot

All right. We’re just diving in. I’ve been wondering how/if I was going to say this. And whether it mattered to anyone at all (besides me). And you know, when you come right down to it, it’s not like I tell you guys Everything. I keep a whole lot of the boring parts of my...

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Hello? National Weather Service?

Are you there? If you are, we need to talk. No, not really. Only I need to talk. You need to listen. Are you listening, NWS? You promised. You said. You guaranteed me the snowstorm of the century. You used the word Blizzard. — You lied. — There was a teeeeeny bit of snow. A...

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Hard Stuff

Don’t you sometimes wish the hard stuff just didn’t exist? Or that it would go away? But here’s a thing I’ve been pondering lately, and several people have been talking about it. And blogging about it. If we don’t know the hard stuff, what do we really know at all? I’m extremely lucky (lucky =...

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Fortune favors the Ironic

You know that thing where you have a manuscript to finish, that’s waiting for you, that’s holding it’s breath (that’s a metaphor – manuscripts don’t breathe, only Real Live books do), just waiting for the final touches to be put on it? And then, then you have this funny realization that Every Single fortune cookie...

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An Epiphany, Mathematically Speaking

When we read sad books during times of sadness, people think we’re wallowing. Not entirely true. We wallow for about ten percent. Maybe fifteen. But more like ten. A big thirty percent of sadness-reading is validation. It is fine to feel sad, the book says. It is normal, it says. I feel it, too, it...

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Popularity and Validation

I’m doing a scientific study about popularity and validation, which consists of me sitting here wondering why everyone else seems to have a whole lot of friends. Point: Husband took these gorgeous family photos and has them mounted so cool, and hung on the wall. He wonders why nobody has said anything about the display....

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