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Better than Ever

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Motivation, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

— Ken Venturi

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An Astronaut’s Closet

Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, astronauts, NASA, space, space exploration on May 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »

What’s in an astronaut’s closet? (And seriously, how do scratch your face in one of those things?)

All this and more answers to your space-suit-related questions below!

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*Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com*

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Up From the Depths of Time

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, batty Brits, creativity, inspiration, mudlarking, Thoughts on May 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Once upon a time, children, before mass production and digital copies and backups and cloud synching, it was possible to wipe a thing from the world completely.

Or maybe not? Here’s a fun story about business feuds and artistic obsession!

Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames

The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar.

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Happy 114th!

Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, birthdays, family, memories, Thoughts on May 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Happy birthday, Grandpa! Some of my previous birthday posts:

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Carl W. Buehner

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*Photo by Melissa Walker Horn on Unsplash*

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Happy Mothers’ Day, Moms!

Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on May 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

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Your Choice

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, quoteandaprettypicture, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The point is, if you want to be happy, let go of your wants. If you want to be effective, harness them.

— Hank Green

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Rereading

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, reading, Thoughts on May 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I reread a lot of books. (For example, I’m currently rereading Thursday Murder Club series. The trick is to wait just long enough to forget, but not so long that you don’t remember;)

Sometimes I also like to reread my blog posts. Not for my own perspective, that usually hasn’t changed, but for the interesting things I’ve shared but may have forgotten.

It’s also why I like the Random Post option. I never know what might pop up!

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A Few Reasonable Words

Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, art, kindness, Thoughts on May 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Dispatch from The Story Mines

Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, genre fiction, Thoughts, Writers on May 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Field report on current story progress, the eighth day of May, 2024:

I have drafted three drabbles recently but sadly, have nothing yet to share.

The first drabble is refusing to shrink to the appropriate length.
The second drabble needs a twist, something spicy.
And the third drabble is a tiny bit (way too) dark for these pages. (I mean, my nephews are mostly grown now but still, I try to keep it light.)

I plan to finish at least some of these projects soon, but no guarantees. One of the (many) ideas I started for last year’s Writers of the Future 24-hour story has been requesting my attention. And it’s hard to ignore a telepathic dirigible!

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