Stuff it, hackers! You got nowhere with my blog.
I discovered a problem when a reader told me she had a Trojan warning from this blog. I Googled, tinkered and upgraded and firewalled, and it’s all good now. With a pre-spring floral theme. Ta daa!.
Here is the fix, in case you have similar on your blog.
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I noticed that I wasn’t doing Holidailies about three or four days ago, and I kept thinking of things to write about. However, I never quite got the impetus or sufficient guilt to sit down and write. So much of what I want to say is mundane to the point of utter solipcism. So much [...]
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I cannot begin to explain how sparkly and shiny and mesmerizing an LCD TV is. After a lifetime of CRT, it is to gawk. Esp. when you are looking at aerial shots of remote Samoa or Mark Harmon’s handsome face. The trouble with a new TV however is the decided drain on creative time. To [...]
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I was thinking today about my family — the ones who are gone. My father (who died from congestive heart failure), my mother (who died indirectly from liver and congestive heart failure) and my brother (who died from pancreatic and hepatic cancer). By the ends of their lives, they were all broken in some way. [...]
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The first day of Holidailies, the first day of finals week for my students, one month before the big show that I am working (four 12-hour days in a row), and a little less than six weeks before a big family wedding. It is not the end of the year for me at all. It [...]
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HORRIFYING CAT PONCHO
A Poetry Slam of Good Ideas, Discontinued Patterns
and Fashion Bestiary, with a visit from Tim Gunn
Rejected Titles:
Why Squirrels Do Not Sew, or Even Wear Clothes At All
Or
HUMAN CLOTHING UPON WHICH TOO MUCH IMPORTANCE IS BESTOWED
Or
Love (11): The Malicious Moose Knickers Tycoon’s Secret Virgin Secretary
A found poem by the Lazy, Stupid and Godless crew
September [...]
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Today is Father’s Day. With all the talk about dads in the media, esp. commercials and advertising trying to get one to BUY BUY BUY something ANYTHING for Dear Old Dad, I have been rattling around in my mind about my own dad who has indeed departed this mortal coil. The pangs of sadness don’t [...]
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It’s after Christmas and the damage on the wallet is still rolling in, but soon the financial bleeding will stop (before the tax bleed begins). The house is still a wreck, and dusting the darn nutcracker is fiddly. One entire box of lights hasn’t been put up in two years, and didn’t get up again [...]
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Some of us, I guess, require a lot more than a simple list or a decision to make a committment to change. We feed off of the collective energy put into New Year’s Eve. It is an impressive display, isn’t it, creating a lot of momentum for whatever project is at hand.
But what if today [...]
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Instead of resolutions this year, I believe I will ponder this three-word rubric that I used when I taught writing. It’s quite simple: what are you going to START doing, what are you going to STOP doing, and what are you going to KEEP doing in 2009?
One new start is an e-book I hope to [...]
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