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December

Taking a look back

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After a wonderful family year, I’m feeling so satisfied with my life.  It feels good to be me.  I hope you are as satisfied as me. I’ve been reading a Hallmark Gift Book through the holidays.  It’s titled “50 things that really matter.”  It’s been a thoughtful meditation.  Each “thing that really matters” comes with [...]

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November

Time again for NaNoWriMo

Posted by Marilynne | Under: Anniversary 2009, Everything Else, Mysterious things, NaNoWriMo, The Story Teller, Writing | Comments(5)

I’ve pledged to write 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo  in the month of November. This is my second year (I won), and I admit it looks more daunting this time.  NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. Last year I wrote the draft to a novel that had been struggling under my fingers for years. It still [...]

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June

A Cabin in the woods

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Over the years, whenever I longed to escape to another place and leave the worries of my life behind, I always dreamed I would go to a cabin in the woods.  It would have a stream or a lake nearby.  It would be just an escape.  I’d go back home, but I needed not to [...]

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February

Who knows how things will turn out?

Posted by Marilynne | Under: Everything Else, Mysterious things, The Story Teller, Writing | Comments(3)

I grew up in a Parsonage.  When we moved from Philadelphia on the East Coast to a small town on the West Coast, we moved away from the first piano.  I had been teaching myself  to play.  The cost of moving a piano from coast to coast was too much.  To my delight, the new [...]