So to kick off April A-Z I've thrown this little slide-show video together. It's the title track from Antenna Town; a great little blues album from a great little Toronto blues band called the Madd Scientists who have pretty much vanished from all memory except my own. I guess I was their biggest, and only surviving, fan. Bassist Ben Knight, also known as Doctor Lock, has remained a dear friend.
The video will perform better if you click through to my Youtube site.
Flash Fiction: Don’t Forget the Veg…
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As Joel looked through the kitchen cupboard this evening, what he saw could
best be described as “organized chaos”. Oh wait, no, it wasn’t even
organized. ...
The Hall of Champions
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Two hours walk south of the city, long past where the farmers’ fields have
already given way to olive orchards, …
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Market Results ( #BOTB Results)
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* I've been mulling over whether or not to do Thanksgiving dinner this
year. Maybe I should check with the bank to see if I could take out a loan
to fin...
Life is short
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Having lost several days of my holiday to the US election and its
aftermath, then another day to a wasted outing when our train was returned
to Piccadi...
Cocoons of Stone
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'Rivers know this : There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.' ~
Winnie the Pooh.Sometimes it needs a little bit more, sometimes a little
less. All ...
The Reversion
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Trump’s win is a return to the default state of centralised, hierarchical
societies – like ours. That’s the problem. By George Monbiot, published in
the Gu...
IWSG: November 2024 Version
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Welcome, all you bloggers who keep on blogging away every first Wednesday
for the *IWSG* blog hop. Thanks as usual to our founder, *Alex J. Cavanaugh*,...
I Just Want To Wear A Sweater
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Last week was hot, and I wasn't thankful for that return to summer AGAIN.
It was crazy at school because of picture days. I'm tired of my summer
clothes an...
Spooktober Story Fest: Farriers Fate
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The heavy scent of sulfur filled his nose when he walked into the barn. An
icy chill slid down his spine as he raised his lantern. A figure stood in
the ...
2024 Reverse Readathon
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Our next readathon, the 2024 Dewey’s Reverse Rceadathon, will be July
26-27, starting at 8pm Eastern Time on Friday, July 26th
Escape With a Writer Has MOVED!
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You can find all of the latest and greatest releases, interviews, and books
at:
https://escapewithawriter.wordpress.com/
Silkolene pro vs motul 300v[Differences Explained]
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hydrocarbon" base oils, which offers superior thermal stability and
resistance to degradation. - Viscosity: Motul 300V is available in a wider
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Find me now on Substack
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You may be wondering who I am. After all, it’s been a while since I’ve last
posted. I assure you, at one time, you volunteered to receive my posts,
which...
David Kirby & Superpod8 Details
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May 18th
Today is David Kirby's birthday
Sadly & shockingly, David passed on 16 April 2023, in Puebla, Mexico, at
age 62. Medical complications, after ...
Fiberglass Kayak Repair
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When things go bad but not to bad, sometimes there is hope. This kayak was
left on a dock unintentionally and the wind came up and blew it into the
wate...
Cabo San Lucas—Friday 12/9/22
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Our last day in Cabo consisted of, yep you guessed it. Pool lounging and
lunch at the Palapa Bar. There was plenty of good whale activity in front
of the h...
A Journey and a poem: The Kiss of Life
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I’ve been on a journey since I last wrote for this blog. Not a journey in
space and hardly a journey in time. The clocks kept ticking, but time often
see...
A TEMPERING OF DREAMS
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“Kindness is how love speaks” Sergio Romero is a young engineering student
at an Ivy League university where he is trying to find a girlfriend, for
love an...
1003. Who Invited You
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I blame myself. Normally, I am quite organized, some might say obsessively
so. I have calendars, to-do lists, color-coded receipts, and even notes
like “...
Apparitions of Arakawa
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The story “The Arakawa Meat Wagon” by Ross Baxter takes place in the ward
of Arakawa, located in the heart of Shitamachi – the oldest part of Tokyo
and the...
Unlocked
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At the fork in the road, she looks left then right and chooses the middle
with a wink and a grin. Oh how the wayward souls go Tomorrow I’ll lock my
front d...
New Release: Pirouetting Around the Dragon
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In case you hadn't guessed from the banner change, Pirouetting Around the
Dragon is out of it's box set, and now available as an individual story,
with ...
P is for Pet
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Your favourite PET you've had.
I love cats. I've had a lot of cats over my lifetime and they were all
special and had their own unique personalities and ...
Evolve
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It has been some time since I published anything here. This is because I am
no longer living in my tiny house. Due to this, I felt it was dishonest of
me t...
Michael Guevara's Query - Critiqued
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Here is Michael's query for THE CLOSEST THING TO A NORMAL LIFE, with my
feedback, in red.
*The letter:*
Ethan-Matthew Cruz Canton Cruz Canton is not hyp...
Richard
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*(AUTHOR NOTE: My publisher told me I could post a chapter from the new
book. There were 25 chapters to choose from, but I chose this one. Because
I want...
My Life as a Stamp Collector
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Stamp collecting used to be more popular than it seems to be these
days. Any self-respecting variety store--five and dime stores they were
us...
Update on life, A to Z and other things.
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Hello everyone!
I finished this piece during May, and never
got around to sharing it here;
so I figured now would be as good a time as any.
I haven't po...
Confusion of Womanhood #poetry #2020aprpad
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Prompt: Write a form or anti-form poem Confusion of Womanhood Which form
should I take to please your perverted mind – Mistress, Wife or Whore?
Whose altar...
Five Minutes A Day – Days 6, 7 & 8
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Prompts: send, mystery, street For punishment, Mother used to send us to
our rooms. I don’t know how this affected my siblings, but for me, this was
no pun...
Beyond the Beauty
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Beyond the Beauty By David Smith January 12, 2020 Beyond the beauty, the
thunder of the falls And even the casino, the tourists’ applause Its
underneath, t...
The Christmas Chronicles
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I'm back! Seven weeks on the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain was a
one of a kind experience. I am ready to get back into the swing of writing
film...
A Problem With Authority
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I was working at a computer software company in 2017 when a big merger
resulted in my department being closed. I was let go with about two dozen
of my pee...
Harvest #Uganda #children
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It’s that time of the year when grapes to hay to corn to apples are
being harvested. Bringing in crops is hard work and many hands are needed.
I rememb...
Process
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Lots of talk among my fellow writers in the past little while about
process. One thing is clear: what works for some of us doesn't work for
others. And we...
LET ME TELL YOU A STORY.
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In 1884 (most of the dates in this story come with the disclaimer
"give or take a year"), a girl named Buntze was born in a shtetl inside the
Russian ...
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Greetings! Welcome to my shiny, so-new-it-squeaks author website. Under the
pen name Sadira Stone, I’ll be publishing steamy contemporary romance. My
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Best Cat Food
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As a cat owner you take full responsibility for the pet you adopted and you
need to learn all the details about the food cats eat and feed your cat
accordi...
Day 13ish – Three days in Osaka
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So I lost all discipline with my idea of a daily journal. I blame Japan
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Today is the last day of the UltimateBloggingChallenge - October and
Write31Days... I made it to the end (I think I missed a couple of days,
which means I ...
I’m Out of Sync at Newmyths.com
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Hi again! I’m very excited to announce that my science fiction story “Out
of Sync”, about a grandfather who goes into a TimeBubble room to live
longer and ...
Zombie Mentality
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The zombie mentality, is how people become susceptible to programming
through becoming team supporters.
Another way to describe this is speaking to the ...
F.
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“Oh dear, whatever shall I do?” she asked. No one answered her question.
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Let the Holidays Commence
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September 22nd, often called the Autumn Equinox, is traditionally
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Identity Crisis
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I have lost my identity.
I'm not sure if I'm still mom, wife, daughter or 911 dispatcher.
If I'm not any of the above, then who am I besides lost?
Zentangle for relaxation
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Day # 26 of the A-Z Challenge, today and for 26 days in the month of April,
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words...
April Insecure Writer's Support Group
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Got insecurities? Check it out. The IWSG, a monthly online writing group
for those of us still not quite sure how we're going to make it in the
writing jun...
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"History’s voice is colour coded
By those who have always had the right to vote for it.
Do you know what it’s like to only see yourself appropriated?
To se...
No Barking
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This post is about what real love is.
I remember when I was little and we first got a dog. Up till then, I'd not
liked dogs. And I'd not wanted to like thi...
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Juggling 4 jobs and family life means that some things have to be set
aside, so I haven’t been blogging this whole year. But when Emily emailed
me to ask a...
Dear Yuletide Writer 2015
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Dear Yuletide Writer,
Hello!
First and most importantly, thank you for volunteering to write fic for me!
Yuletide is always a fun time of year for me, bec...
Finding Time to Write
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I set a goal for myself this year, that I would write one short story a
month. 10kish. Thats only 2500 a week, only 333 words a day. Thats nothing,
super e...
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Looks like the domain name server for my site has a major case of
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To Petra,
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I haven't written anything here for awhile because nothing has drawn
me back until now. Today I finally came home to Reading Practice because
what I...
Prologue- Expired
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I want to start this off by apologizing. I didn’t do enough to help. Who
knew that the immortal could be so blind? Though, I guess, it wasn’t always
like t...
Untitled
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I have lived and lost this life many times Been born and reborn and born
again Been pulled out of myself and put back again I have found myself, of
no acco...
Best Product Ever... Coconut Oil
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* This week's theme is kitchen essentials I could not live my life with
out. We all have those one or two items we use every week in our cooking
that mi...
Daily Prompt: Second Time Around
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Daily Prompt: Second Time Around. Tell us about a book you can read again
and again without getting bored — …
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Post #3 - It's only been a few days, right?
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Yup, work is still nuts, but the good news is that the world's greatest
supervisor (who isn't mine, just for the record, but was years ago) got my
status f...
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R.I.P. My dear cat Agatha, who was a loving, kind, and constant companion
for the last 20 years. I will miss you my furry friend.
Sustainability project in Madrid, Spain
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Hi all.
A friend of mine mentioned this a while ago, about a project he is working
on in Madrid, Spain.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done...
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Hi kids! It's me again. Here for what is turning out to be my monthly
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There a...
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2 comments:
Neat! Something different from other posts on a2z challenge that I've so far seen. Fun.
Oh loving that! You've got me curious about your theme lol Good luck with the challenge! Hope this gets your blogging going for ya :)
Happy A to Z-ing!
~Anna
My A to Z.
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