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Welcome To The Lunar New Year!

What is it, what does it mean? Present history has the origin of the Chinese Lunar New Year beginning at around 1600BC. China's Lunar New Year is known as the Spring Festival or Chūnjié in Mandarin, though other Asian counties also celebrate it: Koreans call it Seollal and Vietnamese refer to it as
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Mood: ‘Let’s Start The New Year Right’ by Bing Crosby

Each Year Seems More Eventful

Many of us do it at this time of year, look back on past events. Maybe many of us even go so far as to make a New Years Resolution, though many of those I now eschew such a thing. Myself, and I do not know if it is just
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Mood: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ by Art Carney

Cats In The Bradicombs

I’ve posted this before, and I had meant to do so again yesterday, but baking and the previous Bolg took up more time than I had thought they would. Anyway, here is the last Christmas fun I will be posting this year, so please, enjoy both Art Carney’s version and my own
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Christmastime Is Here!

Did just a little decorating…

Did a little baking…

…and have a little bit of Sherlock Holmes books to tide me over…

…so there’s a good bit of Christmas cheer in the air here, and that’s the way it ought to be!

If you don’t celebrate, that is of course perfectly fine, as
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I Have Achieved Something Mind-blowing!

To me, anyway.

Roughly ten years on and off (Mostly off) of writing and I have accomplished to end of the first draft of my first book. It follows the life of a character I portrayed when I directed a group in a RenFaire for almost 19 years. As director, I required my
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Mood: I Write The Songs” by Barry Manilow

@fredhincanada tagged me in this fun l’il exercise, so I thought I’d carve some time out of my insomnia to share my own insights…

Obviously the object of the exercise is to pick one song from each artist or group named. I added one or two that seemed to be missing. Just the kind of hairpin I...
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Whatcha Thankin’?

It has been another years of ups and downs, hasn’t it? Still coming out the other side of it more or less healthy, about as wealthy and hopefully more wise is an achievement, isn’t it? At least wise enough to know and to be thankful for so much. Right?

I have mentioned before
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Mood: ‘Rise Above’ by Scott Buckley

An Absence For A Friend and A Balm For My Soul

Several months ago I lost a dear friend up in Alaska. I have mentioned this before in these blogs. Randy and I spent many years outside of the friendship with a theater company, mostly in Hallowe’en shows, but also in some Christmas ones, as well. The ‘thing’ about...
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Mood: “It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Stasero)

Fall Scattergories (Picked Out For Me Alone by the Inimitable @fredhincanada)

Use the first letter of your Username to answer these:

1. A Type of Candy -Bazooka bubble gum and Baby Ruth

2. A Song - Begin the Beguine

3. A Football Team - Broncos

4. A Tailgate Food - BBQ

5. A City - Bucharest

6....
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I Was Going To Post Something Else Today, But…

Mom’s 85th birthday is on the 4th, just a few days away, and she requested no eating out. Probably because her two favorite places are at last a 40 minute drive and she is having really bad back days. So I determined to start celebrating a little early and made,
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Mood: ‘Lullaby’ by Lorena McKennit

Words Are Fun(ny) Things

Sometimes, it seems to me in this first attempt at writing a book, there are too damn many thoughts. Not really a bad thing for a writer’s mind, of course, but as I pass the almost 420 page mark with possibly 80 more to come(?) my mind raced far ahead and I had to stop and
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