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    Talk Talk

    By Aditus

    Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we? #253 Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds. When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
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MDBCs 09 Dec 2023

December 9th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anna's Day, marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna. (Sweden and Finland) Armed Forces Day (Peru) Christian feast day: Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy The
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Twenty-Five Days of December

Twenty-Five Days of December -- Day Eight

Time to decorate the tree? A couple of years ago, we were on the way to the supermarket when a red light halted our progress for a bit. I glanced to my left, and there on the second floor of a condo building -- with floor-to ceiling glass walls at the corner of their living room -- stood a magnificent Pride tree. It was rainbow-hued, rising from purple branches on the bottom to red ones at the top, decked out in nothing but Pride ornaments, and spectacularly lit to be "visible" from the str
Writing Stories

Chapter 14 of Pride and Power is Live

Chapter 14 We're back in London! This time I will give you a little geography and some background. There are a lot of details regarding the manner of the gate that you enter and the type of welcome you get in London as a person with a noble bloodline. It's something I should have mentioned during the first entrance to London, but I didn't  as it didn't feel right to add that level of etiquette to the early chapters of the novel. While I do have some working knowledge, limited as it is, of t
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MDBCs 08 Dec 2023

December 8th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Battle Day (Falkland Islands) Bodhi Day (Japan) CARICOM–Cuba Day (Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba) Christian feast day: Budoc (Beuzec) of Dol Clement of Ohrid (Julian Calendar), and its related observances: Student's Day (B
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Twenty-Five Days of December

Twenty-Five Days of December -- Day Seven

Decorating traditions sure have changed. I remember being a kid and begging my mom to start hauling out the attic boxes of holiday cheer. When I was small, she always had the same reply: "Not until December 7th. Not until Saint Nicholas Day is over!" As the years went by, she relented and let me start decorating earlier in the month. Undoubtedly, when she was a child, the date was even later, and traditionally, decorating for Christmas only occurred on the twenty-fourth. But nowadays, it's
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MDBCs 07 Dec 2023

December 7th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armed Forces Flag Day (India) Christian feast day: Aemilianus (Greek Church) Ambrose Maria Giuseppa Rossello Sabinus of Spoleto December 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Twenty-Five Days of December

Twenty-Five Days of December -- Day Six

Happy Saint Nicholas Day! Thinking about cookies yet? An area of interest of mine is studying when certain food items were invented, and where. Devil's food cake, for example: Philadelphia, circa 1910. Angel food cake: Saint Louis, 1890s. How about toast? The ancient food writer Athenaeus tells us the cook's name and dates it to the 6th century B.C. So what about a more recent, but never-more-popular, treat? The chocolate chip cookie? Here we have one person's efforts at digging into i
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MDBCs 06 Dec 2023

December 6th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anniversary of the Founding of Quito (Ecuador) Armed Forces Day (Ukraine) Christian feast day: Abraham of Kratia Aemilianus (Roman Catholic Church) Denise and companions Blessed János Scheffler
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Twenty-Five Days of December

Twenty-Five Days of December -- Day Five

Today, let us ruminate upon a remarkable Gay man's remarkable gift for food and writing: James Beard. In his recipe-laden1964 autobiography, Beard's boyhood Christmases in Portland, Oregon, are shown in all of their uniqueness. His mother ran a small hotel, and relied on a man named Let to get things done, in and out of the kitchen.   The Christmas sequence from Delights and Prejudices occurs in chapter 5, beginning on page 164  https://archive.org/details/delightsprejudic0000bear
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MDBCs 05 Dec 2023

December 5th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abercius Clement of Alexandria (Episcopal Church) Crispina Dalmatius of Pavia Gerbold Justinian of Ramsey Island Nicetius (Nizier) Pelinus of Brindisi Sabbas the Sanctified D
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Twenty-Five Days of December

Twenty-Five Days of December -- Day Four

“Well,” he said presently, “what is it that is wrong with Christmas?” “Why,” I answered, “all the romance, the joy, the beauty of it has gone, crushed and killed by the greed of commerce and the horrors of war.”  ----------------   Considering how jaded the world is, who said writing a holiday tale was ever an easy task? Surely, Father Time has perspective on his side, and is always willing to advise the young-at-heart if their ears are open   ----------------  
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MDBCs 04 Dec 2023

December 4th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Ada Anno II Barbara, and its related observances: Barbórka, Miners' Day in Poland Eid il-Burbara, a holiday similar to Halloween in honor of Saint Barbara. (Russia, Israel, Jordan, Leb
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Twenty-Five Days of December

Twenty-Five Days of December -- Day Three

One of the things I'm grateful for in 2023 is happening upon the recordings of a certain radio program. Proudly We Hail started after WW2 as a show of a mere fifteen minutes, but it was one dedicated to bringing true Short Stories to its listening audience. Under the writing baton of Tom Petty (yeah, not THAT Tom Petty...) some wonderful performances rang out live to everywhere in the world the Armed Forces Network broadcast.    To remind us how delightful the Short Story form can be (
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MDBCs 03 Dec 2023

December 3rd 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abbo of Auxerre Pope Abraham of Alexandria (Coptic, 6 Koiak)) Adrian (Ethernan) Birinus Cassian of Tangier Emma (of Lesum or of Bremen) Fr
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MDBCs 02 Dec 2023

December 2nd 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armed Forces Day (Cuba) Christian feast day: Avitus of Rouen Bibiana Channing Moore Williams (Anglicanism) Chromatius Habakkuk (Eastern Orthodox) December 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Twenty-Five Days of December -- Day One

Twenty-five days of memorable performances, stories and real-life encounters. So, we'll start with something to wake you old Grinches up! Let this brief real-life encounter defrost your jaded holiday cynicism. Let it re-awaken the dormant spirit you’ve suppressed for far too long   A birthday girl's pinata https://youtube.com/shorts/okJA_jhECM4?si=dM2DL5Dpke2z9rCf  
Writing Stories

Of Pride and Power Chapter 13 is live

Chapter 13 After a chapter of down and dirty trench warfare (a taste of what I want to do for the big battles in the future   Maybe   ). I wanted to address our favorite star-crossed lovers/partners. Robert and Eli have this interesting sexual roleplay thing in their relationship, beyond just the BDSM stuff they experimented with. Here's the thing with sex, it's not just about the penis and an human orifice, there's a deeper connection and meaning. Pleasure is what everyone feels, if you're
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MDBCs 01 Dec 2023

December 1st 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia) Christian feast day: Alexander Briant Ansanus Blessed Bruna Pellesi Castritian Blessed Charles de Foucauld Edmund Campion Eligius
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MDBCs 30 Nov 2023

November 30th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Bonifacio Day (Philippines) Christian feast day: Andrew and its related observances. Joseph Marchand (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Commemoration Day (United Arab Emirates) Day to Mark the Departure and Expuls
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MDBCs 29 Nov 2023

November 29th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Brendan of Birr Francis Fasani Illuminata Radboud of Utrecht Saturnin November 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) International Day of Solidarity with the Palest
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MDBCs 28 Nov 2023

November 28th 2023 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Albanian Flag Day, celebrate the independence of Albania from Turkey in 1912, the first Albanian flag raise by Skanderbeg in 1443, and for the new parliamentary constitution in 1998. Bedfordshire day is celebrated in the county of Bedfordshire to celebrate the birth of John Bunyan Bukovina Day (Romania)
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