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Do You Like Who You Are?

Emma Coat’s Writing Basic #10 Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is part of you; you’ve got to recognize it before you can use it. This approach to writing is so loaded with...

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Are You Afraind to Fix IT?

Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone. What comes to mind when I read Emma Coats’s Writing Basic #11?...

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NOTHING-TO-LOSE ALWAYS WINS

What are the stakes? Give us a reason to root for the character. What happens if they don’t succeed? Stack the odds against. This is Emma Coats’ Writing Basic #16 – four sentences fiction writers...

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Why Do You Think the Way You Do?

    My last post pressed a hot button. I knew it would and I’m not through with it. I’m asking more questions again. Why do you think the way you do? Do you know? Do you care to know?   *****...

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Why I like Breasts

Actually I don’t know why I like breasts. I just do. Always have, even before I realized I did. My first realization that breasts were my friends flashed in my little boy brain at the age of seven. My...

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Can You Love Your Dad When You Don’t?

I’ve been away from this blog for months. I ran out of stuff I wanted to write about. Then it happened. Now I’m writing. ***** From about the time I looked like my long haired avatar, I didn’t like my...

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WE’RE ALL FORGETTING…but we forgot that

My father died with practically no memory left in his brain. His mother, my grandmother, passed away having lost all of it. Will I end up that way too? That’s the wrong question. My memories have...

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How to be Happy with 80-20 when Your Part is 20

“Why do you always feel diminished?” That’s what my mother said to me over the phone yesterday as she collapsed into sobs. The conversation was not supposed to be about me. We were talking again about...

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The Big Secret Grandma and Grandpa Don’t Want You to Know

The secret? Here it is: Not everyone grows old but all bodies do. So what. You knew that. So if we all know it, why won’t we admit it? Reason: Either we’re young enough to worry about it sometime in...

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Sexual Privacy – Is that Hip Anymore?

The world can be divided into two groups: Group A wants their sex life private, behind closed doors. Group B wants their sex romps open, at least some of them, in front of other eyes or cameras. I...

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I’m not that nice. How about you?

On the one-to-ten Scale of NICENESS, where do you live? Are you nice to some people and not nice to others? Are you nice to yourself? What IS being nice?   I’ll admit it. I’m not that nice of a guy. A...

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How to Become Something You’re NOT

There are tons of advice books out there telling us how to better ourselves, how to systematically and psychologically change and progress. I’ve written posts about this, but they’re about dealing with...

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Ask Your Doctor If You’re Healthy Enough For Sex

Cialis and Viagra are selling youth-sex to old people. Well, actually not old people, just older people, or any male for that matter who wants harder and longer. What surprises me the most about TV ads...

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Whatever Happened to Nina Pearlstein?

True story but names have been changed. I first met Nina Pearlstein in Camp Podolsky, a Jewish teen retreat. I don’t know what Christian summer camps are like, or Muslim teenager get-away’s or Zen kid...

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Where Ever You Are, I Hope You’re Happy

(Continued from: “Whatever Happened to Nina Pearlstein?”)   Nina tipped-toed to my bedside, still in her gown. I was already awake, dreading to ask one troubled question. “How bad is it?” “Mom wants...

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How to Rate Your Value When You Have None

Yesterday and today I took final inventory of my father’s life’s possessions, and for that matter, his entire life. As I explained in my last post, he never threw anything away, apparently because...

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How Much of You is Just for You?

By the time I hit college I had set up Irving Podolsky’s Three Rules of Survival. Rule #1: Always tell the truth. Rule #2: Just be ME. Don’t hide anything. Rule #3: Be nice to my sister. None of those...

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We Can Do It But We Turn It Off

I don’t think it’s just me. We all do it but we turn it off. There are reasons why people shut it down or ignore it. They don’t trust the power or they hope their feelings aren’t true because there’s...

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I don’t want to hear about it.

I have a blessed life. My wife and I don’t need to worry about money or a job or the troubled children we never had or health issues and no one we love is dying this month. Living like this gives me...

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Open Marriage – Is it Right for You?

I read the Huffington Post online. I read the Huffington Post because it links to other publications and because I never know what kind of story or blog I’ll find there. So a few days ago I was surfing...

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