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January

Sunday afternoon in Venice Beach

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I didn’t really know how to title this.  Roy and I had a great visit with our daughter Lisa and her friends Scott and Emily.  Venice Beach is a place like no other.  Kooky for sure.  Beachy for sure.  Why don’t I tell you in pictures? I have a whole collection of characters that belong [...]

11

January

Step on what and do what?

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I’ve been visiting the doctor for a fair amount of maintenance lately (if you’re over 50 you’ll know what I mean) and I’ve run across a problem.  Picture the doctor’s examining room.  It’s dominated by a “table” not big enough to feed a child and you’re meant to sit on it so the doctor can [...]

5

January

Where does my time go?

Posted by Marilynne | Under: books and things, Everything Else, Mysterious things | Comments(6)

One big answer to my using up my time.  My brother would call it wasting time because he’s always about choices.  He says if I spend my time doing something, it’s my choice.  If I don’t like it, then I should change it. He’s probably right about one thing.  I spend way too much time [...]

4

December

TGIO or Thank God it’s over!

Posted by Marilynne | Under: Everything Else, Mysterious things, NaNoWriMo, Writing | Comments(2)

That’s what they called our meeting today, but that wasn’t what was in the air.  The eight people I met for the NaNoWriMo TGIO coffee were excited at having finished and talking about what they’re going to do now with those 50,000 words.  It was a stimulating meeting. This was my second year and the [...]