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    November CSR Discussion Day: Hustle by Talo Segura

    By Cia

    Wow, November already. With the year almost over, I wanted to keep featuring things that kept readers guessing and challenge the idea of the traditional reading genres and stories. What did you think of Hustle? Share your thoughts below, but first, the interview!! Chocolate or Vanilla? I have to cheat... both! What's your favorite room in your home? Do you plot or write there? I don't have a favourite room and I write where ever I find myself alone and not being disturbed, of
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Win my eBook: Protecting Bear

I began this story as a flash piece with my blog group, The Wednesday Briefers. With a lot of polish, and over 14k in new content... it's now Protecting Bear. Today only, January 10th, you could win a copy on my off-site blog! Just comment, include your email, and you could win! Contest ends at 10 PM, PST. All comments also count toward my $10 Amazon gift card contest ending on my blog, January 20th.   Visit my blog contest   Protecting Bear is also available for purchase for only $2.99
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Life update, into the new year and beyond

This year has been an awesome year so far, and we have some really great plans for the next 6-9 months that are really going to change our lives for the better. I am so STOKED for 2014.   For a start, I feel like I'm finally getting a grip on my health issues. The big thing here is that I'm using conventional drugs to control pain and stuff, but then I'm using some complementary therapies to help me reduce the reliance on those drugs and improve the condition for the better.   For example,
Westie

Westie

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Not a Tongue in Cheek Blog

So. I find it amusing at times the things I see posted at GA. There's so much knowledge here that some could get a free education. Before the Soapbox closed, politics were wide open. If you didn't know something, you probably could find it in the Soapbox.   Next, I read all of the posts made by teachers. How wonderful. Where I live, schools are losing their accreditation, teachers are poorly paid, and students are beyond redemption. It makes me feel good to read some of the posts by tea
joann414

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Gay Sport Stars Come out of the Closet

I read today that that Thomas Hitzlsperger has outed himself. Thomas is a retired soccer star who once played for Everton, West Ham and Germany and had a mean left goal kick. I admire any celebrity who outs themselves because mostly it paves the way for other celebrities to come out, and break the barriers between what is PERCEIVED to be normal and what is not perceived to be normal.   But, I do have concerns. Sport is not the domain of baby makers. Sport belongs to everyone. Heterosexuals ar
LJH

LJH

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Climate Change

Hmm. Gets a lot of strong reactions. Like religion   First off "climate change" and "global warming". They are not the same words and they do not have the same meaning.   However they are two sides of the same coin. Global warming is about averages. Climate change is about localized conditions. It's important not to conflate them.   But guess what - that's exactly what the "strong reactors" do! So with all the cold weather records being broken in the US over the last week or so, the "str
Zombie

Zombie

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Too Much Television

This dream-story was pretty obviously inspired by American Horror Story: Coven. The characters looked different, mostly, although sometimes not (it being a dream). Strangely, one person in the dream version looked like Jensen Ackles. I don't exactly disapprove, but I watch nothing he's on, and I wonder how he wandered on set, as it were. Another influence would have been Tanya Huff's Gale Girls novels. There was one line of dialogue that I remembered that I unfortunately had to leave out, becaus
B1ue

B1ue

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My 2013 Playlist

So, the year's over, and we're starting a new year...what was your playlist for 2013? Here was mine...   1.   2.   3.   4.   5.   6.   7.   8.   9.   10.   11.   12.   13.   14.   15.   16.   17.   18.   19.   20.   21.   It seems like for 2013, there were two trends- electronic-based, and folksy inspired stuff. Kinda diametrically opposed, but it makes sense that there'd be two trends that were
methodwriter85

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Utah and SCOTUS

If you don't know, SCOTUS is shorthand for Supreme Court Of The United States. Utah officials had appealed the recent Federal Court rulings mandating that Utah process and recognize same-sex marriages, and pending appeal, requested a stay of the lower court rulings. This stay was denied first by the lower court, then by the 10th Circuit but this morning, SCOTUS granted the stay.   In my opinion, Utah (and a court challenge in Virginia that AFER is working on) may be the tipping point that for
Trebs

Trebs

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una mano umana

l'amore non muore mai, a meno che da una mano umana   (love never dies, unless by a human hand)
AC Benus

AC Benus

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A lighter entry

Thanks for the comments and support on my last entry. It really helped to get it all out - so many times, I start drafting copy of information like this in my mind, over and over (occupational hazard I guess). It doesn't always see the light of day which just makes it easier to obsess about and continue to mentally revise and review, so getting it out - it's done, time to move on.   The year is actually starting out really well. I love musicals and saw a great performance of Cabaret last ni
Trebs

Trebs

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Tasty, healthy almond scones!

My own twist on the classic English tea time treat.   You need:   400ml whole wheat flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 60g butter A handful of almonds, chopped or crushed 150ml milk   1. Set oven to 225*C.   2. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Divide the butter into little pieces with your fingers and add to the flour mix until you have a loose mass.   3. Add the almonds and the milk, kneading with your ha
Thorn Wilde

Thorn Wilde

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after I am dead

Sonnet No. 144 [January 5th, 2014 – 7:05 am]   I am but a man against the flow of Time, And after I am dead, others will label What they see in me with words that are not mine, And homophobes will give full reign to their libel. Even now, the 'H' word is jammed down our throats, As Wikipedia gives haters free roam To define us with a word that gets our goats – As if Blacks were called 'negroes' in that tome! What I call myself is the all-important, Because I do it with love, and t
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AC Benus

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calm of heart

"Even my hope lives in despair, For lyrics chill and do not warm When always questioning what's fair, And the only calm of heart, is a storm."
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cowardly love

"I've had my full of cowardly love - for love that breaks hearts is no love at all."
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AC Benus

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Is this Pro-Science or Pro-Religion? Interesting TV Show Clip

So I was looking up the Twilight Zone and came upon this episode clip of the 1985 series. I never watched the 1980's series, because it came before I was born and the classics in the 1960's series to me are far better in terms of the Twilight Zone stories. However, I was drawn to this one, since it was based off a story from Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke was influenced by Eastern thought and the cycle of Creation/Destruction are prominent in this story.   I watched it and felt sort of conflicted by
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W_L

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New Year, New Happenings

I've been under the weather for four or five days now. Hubby gets home today and grandson wants to go get Gatorade, hot pockets, etc. I put a sweat shirt on over my long sleeved tee shirt and yoga pants and head out. We are walking around in the small store, and I shout, softly, "Come on. We need to go." A guy look around the aisle, and says, "Are you talking to me?" I'm like, "NO, I was talking to my grandson Kyle. Sorry." "No worry, I'll go with you." WTF I'm 54 years old, feel like
joann414

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eBook Review: As Natural as Breathing by Thianna D

As Natural As Breathing by Thianna D. My rating: 3 of 5 stars   I enjoyed the story, which is why I gave it 3 stars. However, it was not without its flaws. I definitely felt the 'Stepford family' vibes. The contrast between the perfect couples to the supposedly broken Christian bothered me. The parental/child knowledge of their sex lives really bugged me. Just... ew, but I guess in a true DD relationship having kids would create a wrinkle. Either it becomes bedroom related only and extremely w
Cia

Cia

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Day 2 of 2014

Well it has been an interesting start to 2014.   Started off the new year with some snow, which won't be going anywhere any time soon since we won't be above 10 degrees for a while.   Today was probably the most interesting day.   There were these two guys I made friends with when I was in training in Chicago, we'll call them T and J. Both great looking and both married with children (not the show).   I am assigned to T as a buddy to get him though his first couple months after training.
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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New Year's 2014

Happy New Year's everybody. I've spent the day being massively hungover. For the most part, these days whenever I go out, I have at most 2 beers, because I'm my own designated driver. But last night, I went to a house party and they allowed us to crash there, so I went way harder than I normally do- two Yuenglings, 1 Negron Modelo, 2 Harvest ales, a double shot of Whiskey, and champagne. At 21 in college, I could have consumed all that plus smoke a joint and felt fine the next day.   But 8 d
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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End of the Year Thoughts

In the last few days, I've had a few conversations that caused me to reflect about various songs and their lyrics. After hearing "St Elmo's Fire" on the radio, I talked with a new friend about how it and Breakfast Club were the movies that defined my high school/early college generation. I graduated high school in 1983 so both movies were very topical for me. The rebellion of Breakfast Club, and the tight friendship circle of St Elmo's Fire were reflections of what I was living. Originally after
Trebs

Trebs

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A look back at 2013

I sit after having done some of the things my mom always did for the holidays. I put a coin in the window as wish that I wouldn't ever be totally broke, had a piece of fish for good luck, and I was going to watch Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve but just don't have the desire to see the new hosts.   I look back at this year and am ready to see it go. There have been many issues. Sometimes I wish I could have been better prepared. My back was the main and over all issue of the year. From the
comicfan

comicfan

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happy New Year to my boy...

Sonnet No. 142 [December 31st, 2013 – 2:21 pm]   As it ticks its arbitrary passage, The new year's countdown makes me think of them – All those young men, and the time they bridge, For their beauty stays, though the years condemn. And you and I? – How will we remember The fullness of this vanishing moment, From the vantage of many years' number, Together for the lifetime that we've spent? Youth may fade, but perennial as New Years, The fresh-faced count replenishes like grass – The
AC Benus

AC Benus

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the ones and zeros of existence

Sonnet No. 141 [December 31st, 2013 – 8:09 am]   Like a curtain of scintillating sheath, The ones and zeros of reality Matrix themselves flatly in our belief, Then settle in forms of finality. Hindus conceive of all experience As being set down upon the pages Of Akashic knowledge that we may reference, If our hearts are pure enough for the ages. And so in living code I have writ you Large in the great book with its sacred seal, Whose transparent veil can only be seen through With t
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