Backpack News Flash

Home in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

I keep seeing these info blurbs about backpacks.  They’re letting us know that we must choose wisely in picking out a backpack.  It’s important to purchase one that fits the child, is user-friendly, will hold up all year, and is two-thumbs-up functional. Umm.  Hate to break it to you, but school’s already started for most

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Quick Sale

Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers

I day or two ago I sent a flash fiction piece over to Every Day Fiction.  I was kind of cringing ’cause it’s only been a couple weeks since my last sale there, but already they’ve bought it!  The story is about an angry apprentice with a water affinity.  Without giving away too much, you could say the kid’s got

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Luggage Question

Just for Laughs

You know how people advise that you ‘let go of your baggage’?  Well, I think I may have come up with a new word tie-in to go with that. Instead of someone dissing on you, they’re bagging on you, or have bagged on you.  Otherwise known as took from their baggage and dumped on you. Not terribly

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Patchwork Purse

Rumblings, The Human Condition

Guess how much this Louis Vuitton purse is selling for. Guess higher. And the really crazy thing?  At just over $52,000, it’s by no means the most expensive purse out there, and has an embarrassing lack of diamonds. This is proof positive that insanity roams freely, and is smiling out from under those sunglasses.

Analysis of Murrow’s Orchestrated Hell

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I’ve been reading an analysis written by Belyn Rodgers of Edward Murrow’s Orchestrated Hell.  The radio piece in question was an influential report delivered in 1943 by reporter and journalist Edward R. Murrow.  As a piece of influential rhetoric and effective storytelling the report is interesting to listen to in its own right, but it is

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Reporting In

Home in the Rookery

I have an excellent excuse as to why I didn’t blog all last week.  Really.  And while it would be more interesting to all of you if my excuse involved a harrowing ambulance ride, poisonous jellyfish stings, and at least a hurricane or two… In reality we had a great time.  Shopped, splashed, swam, savored.  In

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Happy Birthday Blog

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Today is the one year birthday of my blog.  Though I didn’t quite reach my goal of 365 posts (the total today is about 360), I came close enough as never mind. I’ve made friends and discovered weird stuff, posted triumphs and raged against the fly-bites of the universe.  Best of all, I’ve enjoyed it

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Beach Retreat

Home in the Rookery, Writing

I’ve worked quickly this last week to finish all my more urgent class work before the trip.  My plan is to give myself this week to get a couple of short stories written, and to that end I’ve been fleshing out a few story ideas. The only problem is, the outlines sound more like novels than

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