success

puddle. of. bliss.

December 19, 2009
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Winning NaNoWriMo

November 30, 2009

Sitting here still slightly stunned to have reached the 50K mark, but feeling excited, proud, enthused, and definitely doing many mental happy dances. NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month, an event officially held in November each year, and the goal of which is for each participant to write 50,000 words between midnight October [...]

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I went to test drive a Tesla and all I got was this lousy stamp

November 13, 2009

Okay, so I did not really, truly expect to drive a Tesla tonight–although that would have been hot. Plus, it’s not really a lousy stamp, I actually quite like the design. We begin the evening with the fact that my datebook said things started at 7–which made for me arriving at about 7:30–except the party [...]

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So this is what 53 looks like

September 14, 2009

When I was 14 years old I had a notion that I would not live to be older than 21. I don’t know why I believed this, but it seemed real, seemed solid and true. Wherever do we get our ideas about life, and how our life will be, and who we will become? In [...]

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Identifying the roots of dismay and discontent

August 28, 2009

I have been feeling a lack of happiness for awhile. The very noticing of this is of course an essential first-step towards contending with it. Another vital step is moving from blaming the lack of happiness on an external something or other and moving onward to explore what it is about me that is amiss. [...]

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Magnolia Ace Hardware – great service

August 9, 2009

Yesterday we decided a new, improved wheelbarrow was something we needed. This decision followed on the heels of having 3 yards of gravel and another yard of Groco dumped in our yard–all of which would need to be toted to other parts of the garden. And then we worked on building a rain garden, using [...]

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G G A G C B

July 25, 2009

Back when I was teaching improve-your-self-image classes I would expound on how our notions of our selves and others are frequently ill-founded and askew. I would speak of what I had learned about “great” people, and how great people are often plagued by the same fears and doubts as us average folk–we just don’t get [...]

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