Craving Pasta As a Type-2 diabetic, I find there are many things I want to eat, but shouldn’t. Pasta is one of those. I absolutely love pasta, and have even written a pasta cookbook. I prefer making my own, but …
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Category: Personal History
Continuing on with my photography sales, here’s a look at what sold in 2011. On June 17th, 2011, someone in Maryland bought 43 greeting cards showing courthouses around Montana. I won’t share all of those with you. (Maybe just a …
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OK–here’s some Crawfish Pie Imagine my surprise to find that Karen Carpenter sang the Hank Williams classic Jambalaya. But much as I love the Carpenters, it just wasn’t cajun enough, know what ah mean,cher? Then I found my home town …
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Promotion is everything After a nice start selling twelve items in 2009, I sold five in 2010. Three of those were calendars that someone in Montana bought on February 4th. In March and June I sold a greeting card each. …
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Living with Diabetes Anyone who knows me knows that I live with a chronic condition called diabetes mellitus. Many Americans do. It is a national health crisis–one for which the medical profession claims there is no cure. I have read …
By Way of Introduction This post will look at my first photography sales–ever. The past few days, I’ve been reviewing my notes about blogging, and what I want to achieve through my blog. From the start, I wanted to get …
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INTRODUCTION What am I? Among other things, I am a writer. Also, I am a photographer, a weaver, a baker, a cook, a reader, a student, a teacher. But first and foremost, I am a writer. What does a writer …
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Introduction In just under one month, I will complete my 71st circle around the sun, which means, as we count things, I turn 71 years of age. Yes, at my 40th birthday party, I thanked people for helping me celebrate …
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Birds Got To Fly
Introduction Back in 1927, Oscar Hammerstein set lyrics to Jerome Kern’s music and wrote “Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.” Since then, numerous artists have recorded the song, Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man, again and again. And it …
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Introduction Yesterday, I didn’t feel up to snuff, or to anything else, for that matter. Today is slightly better, thanks largely to the roses, and lilies, and hollyhocks, oh my! that are blooming in my flower beds. Yesterday, I came …
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