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Apology and Explanation

 I had planned to post every Thursday while on my advanture, but that simply hasn’t been the easy option I thought it would be. So rather than struggle and stress over accomplishing a Thursday post, I’ll continue to post daily on FB (Patti Lincecum Miinch) and...

Where’s the Romance?

“Where’s the romance?”The literary agent sitting across leaned forward slightly, looked at me quizzically, and waited for my answer. “Actually, there is no romance. It’s a book about a woman who learns to find happiness despite the lack of...

Still (Five Minute Friday)

I’m very excited to again this week join a talented group of women who connect each Friday in an online, unedited flash mob free write based on a one-word prompt from our fearless leader Kate Motaung. My timer is set for 5 minutes; let’s see where the word...

Best-Laid Plans and All That

This past spring, once I decided I was going to retire, I began contemplating what I was going to do with all the newly-freed time available to me after the end of May.I bought a black-and-white marbled composition book — a long-time, very inexpensive guilty...

A Tale of Two Guys

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .   Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two CitiesMy local big box pet supply store cannot by any stretch of the imagination be compared to France. But the French Revolution, or at least the famous opening lines to...