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A life sentence with mortal punctuation: part 4
Last week: Friend wars. Can a girl get post-traumatic stress disorder from those? And now: The appendicitis odyssey I’m going to skip forward a few years. They were largely unremarkable, trust me. I...
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A life sentence with mortal punctuation: part 5
Last week: A second routine surgery turns complicated and results in my second near-death experience. The hits don’t stop coming 1987 was a massive year for me, not only because of my appendix...
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A life sentence with mortal punctuation: part 6
Last week: A tumultuous year sets the gears in motion. This week: Fumbling toward stability But first … A recent experience and how it led, in part, to this series Last year, a co-worker of mine tried...
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A life sentence with mortal punctuation: part 7
Last week: It takes sixteen years, but finally, I see the light. Sorry this is a bit late. I was actually WRITING today and I lost track of time. It’s been a very good day :) So that’s what it’s...
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A life sentence with mortal punctuation: part 8
How did what was supposed to be a mere two-part guest post get to be this huge? I think it’s what project managers call “scope creep.” :) Essentially, the story demanded something more, and as with...
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The one where I post about Dad: A life sentence with mortal punctuation, part 9
You may have noticed that I didn’t post in my series last week. Truth is, I needed a break from the angsty. While I feel that this series is important to write, and that I have come to a point in my...
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The post in which I write about happiness: A life sentence with mortal...
I’d wanted to wrap things up this week, but the happiness post seems to have a mind of its own ;) So next week will be my finale for this series in which I will talk about how my life and experiences...
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How my life sentence with mortal punctuation has informed my writing
A.K.A. The period at the end of this series :) I’ll preface this bit by saying that I don’t think I’m unique among writers in this respect. In fact, I think every writer works, at core, with and...
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Sundog snippets: Two things I’ve figured out about myself
This is just a quickie to let you know I remain smoke free, and that so far, I’ve not suffered too much in the withdrawal department. Spending the week out of town did help significantly. Phil is not...
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Ups and downs: A week in the writerly life
Greetings, my writerly peeps! It’s been a weird and wonderful week for me. First, I headed down to Mississauga (second of three trips for the day-job this month) on Monday. Since I had full travel days...
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