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Yes sireeeeee! It's a one-liner Wednesday, a Fandango's One Word Challenge, and a daily prompt wrapped in one: "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh. OK, now that I have your attention, I'll admit that it's not the only quote that guides me. But it is …
Got skills? I mean those that might transform a hobby into a business, or a sideline into a job? Pardon me, I may have harped on this before, but making a living in a changing job market may rely, not just on your current resume, but on the odd skill that you can pull out …
Back in the day, there was a fictional character that I closely related to -Gnossos Papadapolous, the main character in Richard Farina's book Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me. Paps was a staunch anti-establishment type like me, into pot, unable and unwilling to convert from the hip way of life he …
I almost titled this Rabbit Holes I Have Known. And the topic of why things happen is absorbing. Still, it's a WordPress daily prompt: "Do you think everything happens for a reason?", and I think that perhaps the folks in Prompt Central found the secret stash of good stuff hidden by Alphonse before he quit …
We've never been the sort of family who wandered into a furniture store and picked out a "themed" room. Frankly, it's not our style, nor did it ever fit our budget. Take, for instance, our living room: there are several chests for storage. One is an antique that came over with my wife's great-grandmother from …
'Well, I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind. Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me. One says she's a friend of mine." -Eagles, 1972 A repetitive earworm, periodically since it was released in 1972, has been Take It Easy. It's not too …
I'd never known that towel craft was a thing until I walked into my cabin on the cruise ship and found this whimsical elephant made of towels. Our cabin attendants made some interesting creatures almost every night. The cruise line wasn't out of pocket for any costly goodies, and it was a great way to …
Dreams may not be forever. It seems to be a cruel thing to say. But as important as having a dream can be, they are sometimes crushed, outgrown, or we are disappointed in their realization. We also grow, and generate new dreams to take the place of the old. Here's the rub! I had a …
In 1981, after several years of gradual therapeutic progress and plain, ordinary "growing up," I quit smoking. It was a gradual process, but one that had a major effect on how I lived. Quitting was a promise I had made to myself, but which was very hard to deliver on. The immeadiate effects? I no …
Want to do lunch with your favorite fictional character? Not me. I used to live with a host of them on the backside of Boston's Beacon Hill. Yeah, the neighborhood is real snooty and transformed these days, but in the 1960's it was described as a "working-class slum". Just a few blocks towards the Massachusetts …
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