Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

This is too good to pass up. I’ve been posting on Open Salon for a few days, inane stuff, no particular theme, whatever popped up in my mind. This morning, I received a private email through the Open Salon email feature. Here it is, edited to conceal the identity of the writer, a registered Open [...]

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Everything I Know I Learned from a Crossword Puzzle

An interesting game is making the rounds on Facebook. Once you’re “tagged” you’re supposed to write 25 random facts, habits, goals, or whatever about yourself and post them on Facenook. Here is my list.

I have the attention span of a gnat.
I crossed the Pacific Ocean [...]

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Romance in Hi Def

I watched Must Love Dogs starring Diane Lane last evening. I first saw her in Lonesome Dove in the role of a hooker with a heart of gold. That was 1989, twenty-one years ago when she was a youthful twenty-three. In Must Love Dogs, she was thirty-nine and still retained her basic beauty.
Only last night, [...]

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Open Salon

Recently, I began posting on Open Salon. My blogger cohort, Alexandra Jones, who writes The Ax Files, introduced me to the site. She’s an Open Salon regular contributor, writing under the captivating handle Captivating Randomata. Alex receives top flight reviews and glowing comments. For more info, click this link and find out all about Open [...]

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Masters of the Universe

If I were the President of the United States (which I never will be for reasons too numerous to cover in a 10,000 page treatise), my first act would be to assign the White House Press Corps to an office in an abandoned mineshaft in Cyclopic, Arizona.
No insult intended to Arizona, but the Press Corps [...]

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Bad is Good

I recently stumbled across a blog site called Love is an Exploding Cigar. The site is mainly by and for women writers of romantic fiction. All of the current contributors, as far as I can tell, balance full-time jobs with families and kids while handling a whole slew of other activities, Yet they all manage [...]

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The Axis of Opposition

One of our esteemed California Senators, Dianne Feinstein, was prominently on display during Barack Obama’s inauguration as our 44th President. Ordinarily, that would be a meaningless occurrence except as a photo op. But Dianne was one of the Democratic Senators who voted in favor of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General in the Bush Administration, even [...]

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