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Wondering who came up with the idea of New Years Day resolutions. I gave up doing that, ages ago. I knew when making them never seemed to last long, probably less than a month, if that. Anyways, that’s just me. Happy New Year Continue reading
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“We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by Continue reading
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if I was a milkman, I would deliver the milk if I was a newsboy, I would hawk newspapers on the street corner if I was a hawk, I would swoop down on the prey if I was a cashier, I would ring up your items if I was a dark cloud, I would rain Continue reading
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“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers … becomes a source of unbelievable Continue reading
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“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.” ~ Claude Levi-Strauss Continue reading
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“Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past, but you can’t erase it.” ~ E. B. White Continue reading
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you know what sucks? sitting here with my laptop, trying to think of what to write. my mind is a total blank, like I can’t seem to come up with anything substantial to put down. come to think of it, I just did write something. my. my. Continue reading
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“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That’s the goal.” – James Baldwin Continue reading
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“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you can possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. Continue reading
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If you are reading this post as I know you are Then, I thank you for stopping by and reading it Continue reading
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“I think it’s dangerous to think you know what you’re writing. I usually don’t know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing Continue reading
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laptop open want to write a new post mind is blank stuck in idle …. what is there to write maybe it will come to me later in the day or in the evening if not then there is always tomorrow or…. Continue reading
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March 7th Essay
its been almost six years now that I quit smoking the same time I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes during this past time, my average weight has been around 140 pounds plus/minus a pound or three before I was hospitalized my weight was around 170-175 pounds and for my height of 5’6″ that to Continue reading
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Writing
In an earlier post titled: You Know, it was a post that was written to get something off my chest. It’s been the hot humid air that I am not too fond of. I never did like that kind of weather. Anyway, when I came home from an early afternoon walk, which by the way Continue reading
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Saturday Evening
took a walk after I finished my supper and it is muggy as all hell and needless to say I was drenched … what helped me keep my mind off the humid air I listened to podcast about an independent bookstore… it was very interesting as I am a book lover and I do make Continue reading
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Friday Afternoon
it is shortly after noon the sky got really dark and off in the distance the rumble of thunder now the rain has arrived and will be doing its thing for the next couple of hours or so…the afternoon walk is put on hold so I can sit back and read a book…books to me Continue reading
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Tuesday Afternoon
Tuesday afternoon also a song back in the 1970’s sung by the Moody Blues can still hear the song in my head like I was being transported back in time …with that said often wondered would want to back to those days and before that which would be the 50s & 60s … sure there Continue reading
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Saturday Afternoon
took a walk muggy as all hell came home with the t-shirt practically glued onto my skin …it also drained me and was glad to be back home and the first thing I did was turn on the a/c …slowly recovering …now I’ll sit back relax and probably try to finish one of the books Continue reading
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It’s
outside it is hot humid sticky indoor it is cool so sitting on the couch reading a book then emails on the laptop fell asleep while doing that the battery slowly shitting the bed when woke up from the power nap the computer was telling me to plug in charge it up then it will Continue reading
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Tuesday Evening
Fourth of July is nearly over with and with that said it seems that summer flies by and the next thing is that you wake up and its Labor Day and football season is upon us the kids are back in school plus the days keep getting shorter till the middle of December … well Continue reading
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Friday Afternoon
Here it is a humid Friday afternoon. There’s a advertisement on the boob tube,that I have a beef with. It concerns doing the laundry, and the guy says that its the second most hated chore to do. What number one is I have no fucking idea, and I won’t even hazard a guess as to Continue reading
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Thursday’s Observations
The afternoon is half over with and it is humid and when I arrived home from my walk I thought I would have to pry off the t-shirt as it felt like it was glued on to my body Come tomorrow another week is coming to a close along with the closing of the month Continue reading
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Wednesday Observations
Two-thirds of the afternoon is history with a third to go when it becomes evening yet it is still daylight for a couple of more hours so it should still be afternoon till the time the sun sets then call it for what it rightfully is evening I mean it’s the logical thing to do Continue reading
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Wednesday Morning
Last Wednesday of the month and have no errands or any other running around to do. It does look it wants to do something weather wise as it is getting dark. If it rains I can live with that. What I don’t deal with is the sticky stuffy humid air. I am at my worst. Continue reading
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50 Words Flash Fiction
Out of bread, so off to the store. Arrive at store find doors locked. Sign in the window says, out of bread, really out of all the different types of bread. Sign also says, come back in a couple of days, and then we will have your bread. Maybe. Bummer! Continue reading
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All Unravelled
a perfect day turns to shit in a matter of the batting of the eyes when you he locked himself out of his apartment which located on 14th floor so going through the window is out of the question and there is no fire escape to use and the building manager has gone home for Continue reading
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Sunday Night
Another Sunday is soon coming to an end, and a new day will come about. Took my walks today, even though it was hot, it humid at all. On the early evening stroll, I decided to go walking on the boardwalk as it runs parallel with the river. About halfway down the way I ran Continue reading
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A Warm Saturday Evening
Came back from my usual after meal walk, and it is really warm out. When I left which was around 5:30, it was 77 F, and when I finished it was 74. Sunday it is supposed to 90 or close to it. To me that is much to early for this time of year. Temperatures Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Quote
“I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn’t that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn’t mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in Continue reading
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It Can Be Embarrassing
Walking with one’s head in the clouds, can end being an embarrassing event. I have done it myself but snapped out of it pretty quickly before anything happened. A few years back when I was part of the work-a-day-world, I was returning back to where I work, I was on JFK Street in Central Sq., Continue reading
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Wednesday Evening
Never got around to posting yesterday, so I will try and give it a go. Anyways … after I finished posting Monday evening, there was a medical emergency I had to attend to. My partner became ill, and asked her what was wrong, and she thought she was having a silent heart attack. Like a Continue reading
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Monday Evening
Monday evening and all is well. Nothing much to report on, so … anyway I hope to get back to posting on a daily basis. I know it can be hard to find the time to sit down and get on with it. With that said, I will give it my best to come up Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Short stories demand a certain awareness of one’s own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.” ~ Joan Didion Continue reading
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Reading or Writing
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers … becomes a source of unbelievable Continue reading
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I’ll Take It
its Saturday afternoon and its sunny, warm and lots of clouds and I am tired from keeping myself busy as in busy as a bee did i just say that oh my what was I thinking well i could be tired from getting up to early or from not enough coffee nah then there’s the Continue reading
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The Blahs
Haven’t been online much lately, as I have been dealing a damn headcold. I came down with it late last week. Anyways, I’m just taking it easy and only dealing with the important things that have to get done. Oh well. Such is life. Continue reading
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Writing Quote
“As every writer knows… there is something mysterious about the writer’s ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is ‘hot’, an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another… Every writer has experienced at least Continue reading
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Editing Your Work
“The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.” ~ Zadie Smith Continue reading
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The Mainstream Media
“I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, “How does it feel being on mainstream media? It’s not often poets get on mainstream media.” I said, “Well I think you’re the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you’re not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high Continue reading
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Tell The Truth
“The writer’s first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth… and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.” ~ Susan Sontag Continue reading
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To Live An Interesting Life.
“To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule, if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live Continue reading
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Writing
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn’t know how to write essays. ~ Jose Saramago Continue reading
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Practice Kindness
“The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with Continue reading
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Writing
“It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, “Read,” but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or “Don’t read, don’t think, just write,” and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you’re going to be a writer, you’ll probably take Continue reading
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Novels
“Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course, you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.” ~ Joan Didion Continue reading
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The More You Read
“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.” ~ Stephen King Continue reading
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Two Sentence Story
Book, coffee, sitting in her favorite chair. All the comforts in the world she could want. Continue reading
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Devoted Reader(s)
Photo credit: Flickr Continue reading
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Responsible Decisions
“The place of stillness that you have to go to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.” ~ Jonathan Franzen Continue reading
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Writing/Meaning/Thinking
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” ~ Joan Didion Continue reading
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Okay
nothing said nothing written nothing to read Continue reading
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A Syndrome
so I have been self-diagnosed with brain fog syndrome no long term effects the only cure is to wait it out ________________________ just something to write – that’s what I did in my other life Continue reading
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Gloomy
day good for puttering around apartment good for kicking back relax good for taking a siesta good for doing anything a person chooses to do Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac
Finishing up Jack Kerouac’s novel: The Town and The City. Its the second time I have read it, and its an interesting read. The beginning of the book, he mentions the city I was born and raised in, the city I reside in now, and the river which is only two blocks away. When I Continue reading
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Calm State Of Mind
alone at his favorite outdoor table while quietly thinking … blocking out the sounds of the traffic and people passing by … completely focused on the other world that he knows will never happen Continue reading
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Sundays
are for kicking back relaxing reading writing crosswords sports on the boob tube or… just being a lazy ass… Continue reading
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Interesting People
When I venture out for a walk, I sometimes meet some interesting people…from all walks of life. They could be dog walkers…people going or returning from an errand…the homeless… some of them I’ve gotten to know over the past few years…sometimes I’ll give them a dollar or two, as I know how it is to Continue reading
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What is
what is reality what is real what is fake what is true not even going to try and figure it out just crawl back into my niche and live Continue reading
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The Creative Center Of A Writer’s Life
“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But Continue reading
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A Writer’s Life
“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But Continue reading
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its been
so long since i used an alarm clock … probably wouldn’t know how to set one and even if i did … well Continue reading
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Not What She expected
A rural upbringing, she decided to move to a big city. The realtor won her over with all the good things and the closeness to some of the best restaurants, cinemas, etc., etc…so she agreed to take the one bedroom apartment, which was on 12th floor. What she didn’t expect, was the littered sidewalks, traffic Continue reading
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thursday 3:41 p.m.
what to think…say…write…will it make sense…what to make of it…it looks and sounds daft to me Continue reading
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Dedication To A Friend
A few months back, I contemplated whether to continue blogging, or throw in the towel and call it a day. One of the first to email me, to say she would miss the things I post, and what not. Another follower from my local area, more or less said the same thing. Anyways, after a Continue reading
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Six Words
more rain later. bring it on. Continue reading
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and
did i say i sometimes write utter nonsense… at least i admit it and it gives me pleasure writing it Continue reading
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7:57 p.m.
approaching the hour of 8:00 p.m. soon it will be getting a public service announcement from your friendly blogger Continue reading
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you know
wake up in the morning enjoying the first cup of coffee open the laptop to read and view the latest news lo and behold come to realize nothing has changed everything is the same not really surprised but…you never know a morning in the future may stun the mind saying that it is to good Continue reading
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7:16 a.m.
pouring rain a mug of coffee a book to read makes for a perfect start of the day Continue reading
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a thought redux
what I don’t see, hear and/or know about doesn’t bother me, and I am fine with that. so with that said, all is well and good and I will leave it like that. Continue reading
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yup
72 years.. 5 months 5 days i’ve been circling the sun and it never gets old…and i don’t feel old…as age is only a number… so with that said…i plan on sticking around for quite some time Continue reading
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11:35 a.m.
today is a day to do as i please no harm … no foul Continue reading
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Six Word Saturday
dark. gloomy. overcast. blah, Saturday morning. Continue reading
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Six Words
can’t believe its july already. unbelievable! Continue reading
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yeah
it sucks waking up at 3:30 in the morning because the bladder was getting antsy and then can’t get back to sleep I repeat: it sucks Continue reading
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Six Words
question everything… rebut if you want Continue reading
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9:32 a.m.
so I managed to take a walk, and I didn’t let the sun or the heat get to me. I managed to block it out, and it does help. now come Friday & Saturday, both days will only be in the 60s, with on and off rain. I can deal with that. Continue reading
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8:49 p.m.
its been a long day especially since i’ve been awake shortly after 5:00 a.m. not complaining just saying Continue reading
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9:14 p.m.
it is evening which means it is dark the streetlamps are on me…sitting on the couch trying to think of what to write along with the useless drivel that i’ve been coming up with maybe come tomorrow the brain may produce something useful to put into words we’ll see what happens Continue reading
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4:27 p.m.
no rhyme no reason just writing whatever comes to mind Continue reading
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11:07 a.m.
busy as a bee no rest for the weary the end will be at no appointed hour Continue reading
A Pondering Mind 
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