Category: Writing
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The Firestarter
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One dark night,When we were all in bedMrs. O’Leary lit a lantern in the shedAnd when the cow kicked it overShe winked her eye and said“There’ll be a hot time in the old town, tonight!”Fire! There was a terrible drought in the Midwest in the year 1871. No one had…
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15 Years
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It was fifteen years ago today,I picked up my pen with something to say,Nowadays blogging may be out of styleBut still, I want to try to make you smileSo may I reintroduce to youThe blog you’ve known for all these yearsPrudentia Sit – Let common sense prevail! Yes, it may…
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Rich Daddy
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The rich young dad walked around the house with his tape measure, preparing for the work he wanted to get done. He only had a certain amount of time from the beginning to the end of the project and it had to be right. He didn’t make junk and he…
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Sir George the Good Knight
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10/14/03 17:53 is the date stamp for the original file. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Sir George the Good Knight stood surrounded by the minions of the Dark Kingdom. “The Kingdom is mine, Sir George. Surrender to me now and I will only put out your eyes and make you a slave in my…
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A Couple Of English Games And the Promise of A Story
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No, Sorry. Not Rugby or Cricket or Bulldogs or anything like that. I mean that the English language is so weird it can only be grasped through tough thorough thought, though. What happens in golf when you cough in the rough? Different things from the Internet that I have gleaned…
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The Archives Interest Me
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I suppose this sounds very self-aggrandizing and egotistical, but I really like a lot of the stuff I write and have written. I have been going back to the roots of why I started this blog in the first place, as a place to practice writing, as a way to…
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A New (to me) Resource
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I was looking up “viz.”, one of those Latin phrases that people use in writing, e.g., i.e., etc. and came across a very useful reference page, Latin Terms and Abbreviations from the University of North Carolina Writing Center. I think it’s very generous of them to share this resource and…
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Dave Gets What He Deserves
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Here’s a new story. I won’t give you the prompt until the end. Dave Gets What He Deserves When a day and a half went by and she hadn’t gotten a call, she started to worry. Al always called her. Always, as in, all the time. They were best of…
