Life
Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about the impact of big events on writers (herself in specific) and freelancers in general, using what she’s going through as a life lesson for anyone in similar circumstances.
http://kriswrites.com/2012/04/25/the-business-rusch-one-phone-call-from-our-knees/
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I lost a good friend recently. Monica Jackson was an author who could take a basic romance premise and turn it around to a story of social significance without breaking the romance rules. She created characters who made you want to spend more time in their presence, whether they had a small role or a large one. I can’t tell you the number of times I pointed to this person or that and said they need their own novel, or at least a novella. People will want to hear their story, I said. Monica would laugh and say she could never write all the stories I’d asked for if she had two lifetimes.
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So my family isn’t big on the presents and stuff for Mother’s Day, but sometimes the mom, me of course, gets to choose the activity. I asked my younger son who is still living at home to take me hiking. We had a great time, found some cool humidity in our high desert, saw trees, chipmunks, and even a lizard. Then we got donuts to, as Jacob said, remove any health benefits the hike might have offered.
I only had my cell phone for a camera, and it’s not very good at compensating for my shaking hands, but here are some of the fun pictures I got. (None of the living creatures who were all too fast.)
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Language
For those of us who are more visually oriented, this article takes various passages from sources as diverse as literature, law, medicine and sports and highlights the word origins by color to show the diverse sources for terms now considered American English.
http://ideasillustrated.com/blog/2012/04/01/visualizing-english-word-origins/
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