Journal Archive
Entries by Title
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- A Post-Single Mom Trifecta
- Christmas 1970. Again and again.
- Ma'am, I am Tonight.
- Not Quite a Homicide, Yet
- Now that she’s back in the atmosphere with drops of shit-upon in her hair
- Boulder and Taos and The Road
- Don't Say Ruminate to an Overthinker
- New Things, God Help Me
- Mother's Day
- Snow Stinkin' White
- Rainy Days and Saturdays
- Kicking off My 20-Day Countdown to Nashville Tom Jones
- I Made It There, So Now I Assume I Can Make It Anywhere
- Clay and Sean's Message of Courage and Inspiration from Another Country
- My Birthday New Yorkers
- I Know. Yet Another Post About the New Year. But This One's Brought to You by the Car Talk Boys!
- Christmas 1970. Again.
- Used Books
- The Thanksgiving Gift That Keeps on Giving
- The Morning After Drunk-Dialing The One at the Library
- It Really is a Small and Sometimes Unprofessional World
- A Fond Look Back at the Welty Symposium
- My October Mother of a Ghost
- If a writer falls in the forest, does anyone hear her dog making fun of her?
- Nova Scotia Bound, Sort Of
- Vegas, baby.
- An Oldie But a Goodie
- Awfully Quiet, but for a Good Reason
- Life beside Miss Honey's Posse
- Blog Post Titles are Hard
- A Mother and Spawn (Email) Reunion
- Miss Honey and Marty
- Pacer Fans?
- A Salute to Hugh MacLeod
- Last Spring Break, We Didn't Kill Each Other in NYC
- You've Come A Long Way, Sandra Heath
- Judith Van Meter has a Class D Felony and Steve Hall is Wasatch Academy’s Choice for their Faculty Spotlight
- Five Years Like Yesterday
- Maxine Is Too Nice This Time
- Middle Age is Being Mean to Me Again
- My Lil' Winter Wonderland
- For Your Eyes Only
- In My Dreams
- Cursed With Higher Expectations
- Do This, Don't Do That, Can't You Read the Sign?
- My son, he’s no Technical Writer
- An Owl and a Squirrel walk into a branch.....
- Blame It On the Economy
- Five weeks, four - teebajillion lists, three moves, two deaths, but only one meltdown in a pear tr......er, cubicle
- My How The Years Have Flown
- Something Wicked (Good) This Way Comes
- When I Was 45, It Was A Very Good Year
- It's Not Unusual
- Happy Birthday, You, Wherever You Are
- Hillbilly Papa-razzo
- Moving Out of the Taj Mahal, The Trilogy
- Who Me?
- What'cha Doin'?
- Hauntings
- Lucky Charms
- Nothing To Say
- And He's Back
- I Choose Ed
- Doomed: Technical Writing
- Saturday Morning Commercials
- Technical Writer Rates
- A Fling and a Choice
- Writing Encouragement
- Don't Forget that April 25th is World Penguin Day
- Elizabeth Strout Wins the 2009 Pulitzer for Fiction
- Yellow
- And Boys On The Side
- Britain's Definitely Got The Talent
- Poor Derek
- Life Magazine Online Again, But Better
- Technical Writer Torture
- Employee of the Month
- I Made It There, So Now I Assume I Can Make It Anywhere
- Yin and Yang
- National Procrastination Week
- Do-Over
- Excuse The Mess...
- February in Do More Review
- Is Al Pacino on the Facebook?
- Empty Offices
- Amazing Grass
- Ship Coming In
- A Technical Writer's Dream
- January in Review
- Only Floss The Ones You Wanna Keep
- Fatherhood
- ¡Ay, caramba!
- Apparently, Anyone Can Run a Writing Workshop
- 3.53%
- Favorite House
- Socks and Sounds
- A Preferred Customer
- Writer's Success Group
- Week One
- Annual Gratitude Exercise 2008
- That's Entertainment?
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa clause
- I am not a nice person
- A Two-Hour Flurry of Excitement
- WTF?
- The Big Impact
- Nothing, really
- Auntnie and Uncle Frank's House
- The Pep Rally
- Not So Wily Wiley
- Values Exercise
- Motherhood
- The Definition of Awkward
- Living Alone and Fairly Consciously
- Independent Lens Submission Season
- Never say "these people" in Tunica, Mississippi
- A Tub for My Wing
- Miscellaneous Diversions
- The Time Has Come
- A Short Lifetime Spent Trying to be a Good Boy
- Sort of Just Talking to Myself
- Scavengers
- Squarespace, Squarespace
- Age and Inventory
- Missing Atlanta. Not.
- Hallelujah
- Lines form on my face and hands*
- Offer to Pay Your Wasatch Academy 'Out and Beyond' Colorado Trip Cancellation Fee
- I Do Feel Guilty For Feeling This Way
- This has never happened to me before
- The Yin and Yang of Graduation
- For Good
- Escape to.....Plainfield
- Preliminaries
- Family still eludes me
- April 25th is World Penguin Day
- Growing Up and Away
- An Indiana man and his color-coded folders
- Regrets? I've had a few.
- Scavenger Hunt
- Thank God for The Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL)
- Then She Found Me - April 25th!
- My Thirteenth Tale
- Thoroughbred Retirement Home
- Used Books (repost)
- Chills and Fever
- Dan and Dave
- No News is Good News
- The Sun in Indiana
- For a reason
- Cynthia Morris' Creative Leaps
- January 31st?
- you probably didn't know
- IU Ready
- Low Expectations
- Christmas Eve 1997
- Indy Arts Council
- Have you gone through the change?
- The State of the Union
- Annual Gratitude Exercise 2007
- Signs of a Comeback
- Christmas 2007
- Heartwarming Holiday Political Giving
- Adult Education Class
- A Very Phoenix Xmas!
- An "I can't afford to be internationally aware" Diatribe
- PBS for the Holidays, too!!
- NPR for the Holidays
- Thanks for the Memory
- Not So Greatest Hits
- The Yin and Yang of Answered Prayers
- A new TV low
- Twas the Night Before the Return to Work
- Another Oprah Quandary
- Immobilized by canned tomatoes
- Interfaith Prayer for Peace
- David Dwiggins and the Manila American Cemetery
- Driving off cliffs
- Lasts and Firsts
- Writers' Center of Indiana website!
- Reading
- Hoping for the best
- When's college start?
- I curse you, TV Land!
- Dr. Eugene White
- Columbus, Mississippi (Part Two)
- Columbus, Mississippi (Part One)
- Run Granny Run
- Being detailed oriented
- Precinct Inspector Rutherford
- Those wacky Christian schools
- Whoa
- What Will Be
- Two posts in one day
- If only...
- 48 days times 2
- Like sand thru the hourglass...
- “Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.”
- For Wasatch Academy Parents
- Remembering September 17th
- Texting!?! After this week, I'm happy to pay it.
- I think it's the water
- Email Two Years Later
- Ramblings
- Superman
- King me. Final Indiana move.
- School Days
- Anna at Borders
- If I never, it'll be too soon.
- The new Down East website
- Tainted Love
- You can have a town...
- Alive for another birthday
- Put on hold, by God
- Driver's License Renewal Day
- Take my July, please
- Ever
- Space Invasion
- Nonproductivity?
- Writers' Conference, on second or five hundredth thought
- Saturday
- Thinking Aloud
- Nothin'
- Memories
- An Ode to Ron Paul
- Natural Selection, a Theory
- Mother's Day for Peace
- Living on Tulip Time
- T shopping for the SAT
- Unshun
- 52projects and Ikiru
- A prolonged series of clicks
- This week
- No Sunflower
- The Last Week of Lobsterfest
- Mysterious CNN.com headline repairs
- I learned about my son from a boy from Japan
- A glimpse of the other side of PSM
- Public Campaign Financing and the $3 Box
- A Room of Her Own Foundation Application Story Request
- Leads, Dialogue, and Character Biographies
- Finds
- Endings
- I'm not ready
- Just one stamp
- It's always the small things
- Thanks a lot, Santa
- A Room of Her Own Foundation Grant
- Spring Cleaning
- A flutter
- A quest for a cause
- Dear Santa
- Tit for Tat, Yin and Yang, Good with the Bad
- Even the Bad Writers
- Karen and The Kibbey Carillon
- Annual Gratitude Exercise: 2006
- 5-HTP and 13,000 words
- NaNoWriMo and Me
- A Quick and Insufficient Thank You
- Hmmmph
- Life Lists
- A different day
- There is a Happy Ending
- We Just Make the Signs, Ma'am
- Lightning can be your friend
- Getting to know you
- Good enough for a documentary
- BB Guns
- A day off from school
- Bible School
- Break Days
- Why do we make martyrs out of the criminally negligent?
- Email from the Orr Treks Webmaster (from a fake address)
- Emails from Chris Hall (the wife)
- First Emails
- "You must be sensitive."
- Where is YOUR money?
- Catholic charity: an oxymoron?
- The problem with Honda Odysseys
- Please don't say it
- October 17th
- An Unintentional Journey
- Christmas 1970
- Jesus took me to the mall
- The Pool
- The Thanksgiving Gift
- Humble Book Review
- The Beginning
- Fan Mail
- Used Books
- A Preferred Customer
- First Misfit Encounter
- More Misfit Encounters
- Another lucky star
Entries by Month
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- January 2012 (1)
- December 2011 (1)
- November 2011 (1)
- August 2011 (1)
- July 2011 (2)
- June 2011 (1)
- May 2011 (2)
- April 2011 (3)
- March 2011 (1)
- February 2011 (1)
- January 2011 (1)
- December 2010 (2)
- November 2010 (3)
- October 2010 (3)
- September 2010 (1)
- August 2010 (2)
- July 2010 (2)
- June 2010 (2)
- April 2010 (3)
- March 2010 (4)
- February 2010 (3)
- January 2010 (1)
- December 2009 (1)
- November 2009 (2)
- October 2009 (3)
- September 2009 (1)
- August 2009 (1)
- July 2009 (3)
- June 2009 (8)
- May 2009 (7)
- April 2009 (8)
- March 2009 (8)
- February 2009 (6)
- January 2009 (10)
- December 2008 (7)
- November 2008 (3)
- October 2008 (2)
- September 2008 (5)
- August 2008 (4)
- July 2008 (6)
- June 2008 (4)
- May 2008 (4)
- April 2008 (6)
- March 2008 (5)
- February 2008 (6)
- January 2008 (8)
- December 2007 (12)
- November 2007 (11)
- October 2007 (11)
- September 2007 (12)
- August 2007 (4)
- July 2007 (6)
- June 2007 (7)
- May 2007 (8)
- April 2007 (6)
- March 2007 (5)
- February 2007 (3)
- January 2007 (6)
- December 2006 (6)
- November 2006 (2)
- October 2006 (36)