The Muse Haunting

The Muse Haunting

Maybe it started with me teasing my daughter about joining me in a Zombie 5k next weekend.  Feeling pretty good after improving my own time during a 3.1 mile run earlier in the morning, I’d begun Googling runs in Denver that I might try. My oldest daughter...

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Pennies on Vacation

"Look like you're having fun," I call out to my kids as I snap picture number 387 on day 8 of our Texas vacation. They are, of course, having a blast escaping the menial daily chores back home in Colorado as they enjoy amusement parks, lake ventures and too much...

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A sign

A sign

I debated buying the $5.99 magazine or just browsing through a copy, but then I thought that if I’m serious about this writing thing, I needed to make the small investment.  With tax, the July/August issue of Writer’s Digest magazine came to $6.47. I handed the Barnes...

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Starting Over

Starting Over

If I had a penny for every day that has passed since my last blog posting, I'd have enough money for a movie ticket, maybe. But not in 3D or for popcorn and a coke. Needless to say (but I'm saying it anyway), a lot of time has gone by, so much in fact, that I had to...

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Penny Chronicles–1938 / first 355 words

I am going to take a bold step and share a draft of the first page of my second novel here. At all the writing conferences I have attended, there is always a session where editors read the first page of a writer's manuscript and comment as to whether they would want...

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Encourage-cent

Encourage-cent

I was leaving my friend's office the other day where I had stopped for an "atta girl" that I had desperately needed. It was one of those drizzly, gray, heavy-hearted days, when I saw it. Pressed into the wet, gravelly road, I knew it didn't belong there. I pulled my...

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Lost in the sofa

How else do I explain my absence from my blog page? Like a penny that slips silently from a pocket into the deep swallows of couch cushions, the twists and turns in my life since the last posting have sent me to places I'd never expected to be in 2010. But, that is...

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Hooper/Harlem penny pals

The fun just never ends around here! On Dec. 14, the 4th grade students in Mrs. Jen McQuitty's class in Hooper, CO, and their counterparts in Steve Bergen's computer class in Harlem, NY, shared what books they are reading with each other. Forty kids in all took turns...

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