Category Archives: Open Notebook

My thoughts on this process, this site and where I’m headed.

Happy 100 To Me!

WordPress has just notified me that my last post is my 100th post on this blog. So I’ve got that going for me.

Total internet domination is mine!

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A Guy Walks Into a Cliche… (In a Bar…)

I’m enjoying a quick getaway to NYC with The Queen. As we visited a friend’s new bar (the awesome E’s Bar- check it out!) I became a walking cliche. Chatting with the bar’s manager, I may have said, “I work in insurance but I’m really focused on my writing…”

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Happy Father’s Day!

Happy day to all those folks worthy of today’s accolades. Today my wife let me sleep in, the Goon brought me two pieces of toast to wake me up, I was happy to receive a number of homemade or store-bought gifts, the C-Dog mowed the lawn, and my darling wife graciously allowed me to sneak out of the house this afternoon to visit a favorite brewery/restaurant. A day doesn’t get better than this!

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Writing 101 Challenge, Day 1

I logged onto WordPress’s blog today to read the challenge. Hey- excellent! Free writing exercise. Write whatever I want, huh? Just write for 20 minutes. Easy peasey, lemon squeezy.

Except, what about the quality of what I write? That seems awfully open-ended. I don’t know if I’ve ever sat down to write something and not known what I wanted to tell before I started writing.

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Brace Yourselves… A Challenge is Coming!

Fair warning- you won’t find a whole lot of introspection in this post. Think of this post as the harbinger of a new writing challenge- a Ghost of Posts Yet to Come. Just without the black hooded cloak and waking you from you bed at some ungodly hour.

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