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Christmas Countdown (w/Cats)
SIX (see below)! Days 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 and 7 are missing as I was too busy for this idea to light up my brain. Better late than never? Because: CATSJoyeux Noel!
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Tagged #christmascats, #joyeux, #stayhome, #staysafe, #wearamask, 2020, Black cats, Christmas 2020, Covid Christmas, COVID-19
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Writing & Covid
Pulling a Trumbo.
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Tagged #bathtime, #savethewhales, #stayhome, #staysafe, 2020, COVID-19, creativity, fiction writing, Pandemic 2020, Trumbo, WTF
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TG: NO
11/13/2020: Booked local dog-friendly hotel room for in-laws and their pups. “TG at picnic table in park”, I said when I called my MIL for TG plans approval, which she gave. “Same at Christmas!” I said, screaming now. “All holiday … Continue reading
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Tagged #covid2020, #family2020, #maskup, #stayhome, #staysafe, #staysafeholidays, #TG2020, #wearamask, Jumanji2, MILs, Rachel Maddow, Thanksgiving 2020, The Rock
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Relief Is Palpable (BIDEN/HARRIS2020 WIN EDITION)
“Dogs and cats living together!”–Ghostbusters
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Tagged #quarantinelife, #staysafe, 2020, Biden/Harris 2020, Black cats, faction, Golden Labs, Harmony2020, Pets, Stay home, StayStrong2020, writing, writing fiction
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Debate Night Finale
This time, you feed your tween at the kitchen table, not in his bedroom, perhaps because it is the last ‘debate’, hopefully the last time a thug will have the opportunity to one-on-one malign a better man in front of … Continue reading
A Voter’s Tale
Sunday morning, after obsessively researching my local candidates and measures, filling in my mail-in ballot, packing it in its envelope, I turned the envelope over, moistened the seal with a sponge, pressed the seal home, grabbed a pen and: SIGNED … Continue reading
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Tagged #becool2020, 2020, Biden/Harris 2020, StayStrong2020, The Shining, Vote 2020, Vote By Mail 2020
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Debate: Part 2 (Fly Edition)
That you feel total confidence about the evening’s outcome irks you because you know from experience (parties, weddings, Masterpiece Theatre, vacations thwarted by pandemics) that 100% confidence only invites disaster. You zoom to the grocery store for comfort-food ingredients and, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Biden/Harris2020, Blood Pressure Worries, Debates 2020, Fly 2020, Kamala Harris 2020, Nachos, Pandemic 2020, PBS Masterpiece Theatre, Vote 2020
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BP 148/80 (VOTE EDITION)
You make dinner early for your small, by American family standards, family–a guy, your tween-guy you would die for, and you–except you shove your dinner portion into the freezer. And hurry upstairs. HERE! you declare with a carny-smile and bowlful … Continue reading
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Tagged #vote2020, #voteblue, 2020, BBQ crockpot chicken, Biden/Harris 2020, California, Debates 2020, marriage 2020, tweens, Vote 2020
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Learning In The Time Of Covid (Coursera Wesleyan U edition)
My book-recs arrive from: author-friends; writers I heart on social media; my 3 sisters/avid-readers; always Claire’s recs on WORD BY WORD. Thank you, Claire. You suggest so many writing worlds that shouldn’t, ever, be missed. In this basically word-of-mouth vein, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Amity Gaige, Book recs, Coursera, DH Lawrence, fiction, Literature, Odour Of Chrysanthemums, Sea Wife, Wesleyan U, Word By Word book reviews, writing fiction
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Heat
I don’t know about your environs, but ours will be blessed with consecutive days of triple digit heat, again, later this week. It’s helpful for my psyche and staving off writer’s block to remember that last year at this time … Continue reading
Posted in Writing, Writing Progress
Tagged 2020, books, Calif heatwave, Earth, Facebook, Family, Health, Heather Cox RIchardson, humanity, hurricane, Instagram, Jill the squirrel, Julia CHild, life, Rachel Cargle, squirrels, The Joy of Cooking, Valencia, Vote2020, writing
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School Days 2020
Bring your pet to school day for my son’s English class. It is this mother’s opinion that my tween’s middle school is rockin’ this distance learning business. #englishteachersrule
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Tagged #distancelearning2020, #stayhome, #staysafe, 2020, animals, books, cats, distance learning, English class 2020, Family, Health, humanity, Inspiration, life, Literature, middle school, Pets
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Doubt (Pub Cheese Edition)
I ferried my laptop to the kitchen table and brought up my novel-in-progress. A poppy-orange dawn filtered through window blinds and the coffeemaker hiccupped sighs and I relished being the only human in our house awake, tapping the pg dn … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Writing
Tagged 2020, 2020 mores, Akmak, animals, books, chardonnay, creative nonfiction, doubt, faction, Family, fiction writing, Fritos, iheartyetis?, Inspiration, Literature, National Geographic, NHL2020, positive advice, pub cheese, Tibet, TV, writer's block, Yeti
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It Happens
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Tagged 2020, books, faction, fiction writing, Jaws, life, Literature, Sharks, writer's block, writing, WTF
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Mask America
A couple of days ago I shopped the web for masks, something I swore I wouldn’t do way back in March, right after my son’s school switched to online education, after I’d purchased non-medical grade masks for my family, and … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Me and Us, Writing
Tagged #biden2020, #staysafe, #voteblue, #wearamask, 2020, Albertsons, COVID-19, Joe Biden, John Snow, Masks, Narcissists, NPD, Pandemic 2020, Smarts, Woot.com, Zulily
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100% True Horror (Bad Dolls Edition)
Last night it was my turn to choose a movie. As my husband practiced the guitar (his Covid-19 learn-something-new goal) on our front porch, delighting dog-walking neighbors, the last of the day’s sun blessing his face, I spent 45 minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Me and Us, Writing
Tagged #stayhome, #staysafe, 2020, Captain Tony's, cats, COVID-19, Cuba, Ernest Hemingway, Gloria Steinem, Jaws, Key West, Mallory Square, movies, Pets, RBG, Ringu, Scream, Spielberg, The Ring
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Black Lives Matter
6/5/2020 Last Wednesday rumors circulated via my Next Door app and local FB community pages that Valencia was going to be overrun by thugs from nearby Palmdale intent on looting our stores, destroying our mall, and terrorizing neighborhoods. No one … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, 2020, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, life, peaceful protests, Santa Clarita, Valencia
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Morning Essentials
6:28a.m. 2 minutes until I need to fill the dogs’ bowls with food, walk them, walk myself for 2.43 miles, feed the tween (I like doing this), review his academic schedule from Google Classroom (Just make a list! But Mom. … Continue reading
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Tagged #quarantinelife, #staysafe, 2020, COVID-19, Quarantine, Stay home, stay safe, writing
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Mother’s Day 2020
I’ve been having too much fun creating Instagram stories (@pbrippey1), hence the little video below, but then again it is the time of quarantine, so why not? Also, hunting for butterfly gifs is so much better for my blood pressure … Continue reading
Posted in Me and Us, Writing
Tagged 2020, Butterflies, May, Mother's Day 2020, Poppies, Songbirds, spring, Wildflowers
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Spring Heralds
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” ― Anne Bradstreet
Posted in Poetry, Writing
Tagged 2020, Anne Bradstreet, art, books, covid19, hope, Inspiration, life, Literature, poetry, Poetry in a dark time, Poppies, Spring quotes, writing
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Poem for the Last Day of April
And just like that, poetry month is at an end, but Tracy K. Smith will still send us a poem each weekday via The Slowdown, or we can visit the site and listen to her read and perhaps we’ll springboard into: … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, April Poetry Month, books, Inspiration, Literature, poetry, spring, The Slowdown, Tracy K Smith, wild birds, writing
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Spring Clean (April Edition)
Despite being homebound for over a month, a month’s worth of house cleaning occurred on 1 sunny April day, a spontaneous, madly executed group effort by myself, my husband and our tween, as though houseguests were arriving, when really we … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Writing
Tagged #quarantinelife, 2020, Angeles National Forest, back pain, COVID-19, hawks, Independence Day, nature, tweens, Valencia, wild birds
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Did I Or Didn’t I
UPDATE: Coupled with new findings this week in Santa Clara County, where the medical examiner confirmed that California had the earliest deaths from COVID-19 — on Feb. 6 and Feb. 17 — the new information suggests a national epidemic was … Continue reading
Posted in Avoiding My Writing, Writing
Tagged #quarantinelife, 2020, books, Bosch, covid19, fiction, heatwave, Pandemic, Quarantine, writer's block
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