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GOVERNMENT GOALS: TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE

August 12, 2019 by

Does it take a movie star, or blogger, to help get out the vote? Probably not, but it can’t hurt either, especially when the voter numbers look so sketchy. If the question is why vote, I know the answer.

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FIRST LETTERS IN MEMOIR: M E

July 11, 2019 by

I interrupted my blogging career when a story that needs telling appeared. The cancer that jumped to a bump on my neck opened the door to a bigger picture than, “Oh my, cancer in my neck. How did this happen?” I’ll always wonder how it happened, wonder how things would have been without it, wonder […]

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LEADERSHIP PATH, PATHOLOGY, OR JUST MOVE OUT OF THE WAY

June 28, 2019 by

As part of an attempt to establish my identity as a guide through events growing more common everyday, I offer Leadership Path, Pathology, Or Get Out Of The Way. It’s a take on ‘Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way,’ the saying hard chargers use when they get lost and don’t want anyone to […]

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HPV16 SCIENCE FOR THE FEARFUL

June 7, 2019 by

The nice couple have had a hard time dealing with HPV16 cancer in different places, awkward places, and they show their maturity by addressing it without the stigma. Stigma, you ask? What stigma. Stigma according to the Cambridge Dictionary: a strong lack of respect for a person or a group of people or a bad opinion of them because they have done something society does not approve of. Click more for the […]

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MEMOIR REMINDER: ALL ABOUT YOU BUT STARTS WITH ME

April 24, 2019 by

My story, your story, one story What’s a memoir reminder? Just that the book called a memoir isn’t a biography, auto-biography, or a novel. None of that, not for a memoir. It’s all about keeping time and not flying all over the place in a random, scattershot, manner. An example of where it starts and […]

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WHY WRITING? WHY WRITE A CANCER BOOK?

March 17, 2019 by

This is gonna be short because I’m writing a cancer book. See what I did there? Didn’t say writing ‘my cancer’ book. Cancer book is more than enough. The whole ‘my cancer’ talk is a bad track. Who really wants to claim it like that. Instead, I’m giving it a good thrashing, plowing the cancer […]

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BOOK OF DAVID, pt 1: How To Encourage Those Of Faith Without Losing Sight Of Your Own Beliefs

March 4, 2019 by

The real post title is Book of David and how I encourage those of faith without losing sight of MY own beliefs. I went second person plural in the title to create community, so it’s not all about me all the time. That’s my secret. Most writers don’t pull back the curtain back that. You’re […]

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BLOG PLATFORM, WRITER PLATFORM, LAUNCHES MEMOIR

February 26, 2019 by

We’ve got a joke, or more accurately my blog efforts get ridiculed, around the keyboard. Goes like this: “Why do you always write about yourself, or put yourself into every post?” I answer by spelling memoir, as in memoir blogger. “M-e … m-o-i-r. You can’t spell memoir without M and E.” Hilarity is supposed to […]

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BABY BOOMER ALERT: YOU’RE OLD AND YOU CAN’T HIDE IT ANYMORE

February 3, 2019 by

    A question for readers in the baby boomer demographic: when did you realize you can’t hide your age? Was it when you first made a skin tent on the back of your hand? The first dark spot that looked just like the one you remember on your grandma’s arm? When you noticed something […]

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WRITING THE BOOK I WAS DESTINED TO WRITE

January 24, 2019 by

    An English major joke goes like this: I like to write poetry, but I suck at writing poetry. So I wrote a short story that was worse than my poem. To fix the problem I wrote a novel and it’s the worst yet, and this explains the deluge of bad writing.

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