Monthly Archives: September 2013

3 Cubs & Dodgers

Posted on September 30, 2013 by PB Rippey

Father/Son Dodgers Game!, the elementary school flyer stated, producing an amendment a week later: Due to unprecedented interest in attendance by moms, grandmothers, grandfathers and 3rd cousins twice removed, Father/Son is expanded to Family Dodgers Game! So we all went to … Continue reading →

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On Roald Dahl’s Birthday

Posted on September 15, 2013 by PB Rippey

Sometimes I let the agent I’m querying know who my literary heroes are. Only ‘sometimes’ as my query letters tend to change. Evolve? Products of endless, restless experimentation…On Roald Dahl’s birthday I was thinking: I always forget to put Roald … Continue reading →

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Quote For The Week: Diana Nyad (Butterscotch Cookies Edition)

Posted on September 11, 2013 by PB Rippey

Find a way. —Diana Nyad I briefly interrupt evening reading time to announce I’m zooming to Albertson’s for eggs for tomorrow’s scrambled egg jamboree and ask my spouse if he needs anything from the store. In the Daffy Duck brogue he utilizes when … Continue reading →

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Bad A** Naid’s Nyad (Git Yer Goggles On Edition)

Posted on September 4, 2013 by PB Rippey

I didn’t know Diana Nyad was attempting the Cuba/Key West, FL swim again. So when I returned from Labor Day shenanigans, I went a little happy-ballistic upon reading about her success. I tweeted, I FB’d, I emailed friends. I worried … Continue reading →

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