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A thoran story

August 10, 2016

We Mallus from God’s Own Country (You others, wherever it is that you live, please don’t be offended, your countries are …

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Heaven or hell?

August 3, 2016

I don’t know if you have, but I have heard this story oft told and now will tell it to you, …

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Butterflies are pretty things

July 28, 2016

Butterflies are stepping in to fill the vacuum left behind by the birds. As for the birds, they seem to have upped …

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Microblog Mondays: The cat and the dog

July 25, 2016

I was out on the terrace, the camera slung around my neck, hoping for birds and butterflies to make an appearance …

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Luci makes a mountain out of a mole hill

June 11, 2016

Luci was somewhere in the backyard when I opened the gate and slipped out in hot pursuit of a butterfly. …

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When my fingers tap dance on the computer keyboard the results are either some tongue in cheek humor, a verse, a short story, a rant or sometimes mere rambling prose that goes nowhere in particular.... You'll find them all. So go ahead, take your pick and be bored to death!!

I believe

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” ~ Cyril Connolly

The why

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” ~ Joan Didion

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Tales of a Family

Finding My Way Home

Emma

Politics, things that make you think, and recreational breaks

Out of My Write Mind

The blog of Sandy J. White

A Walk in the Garden

"How quickly comes the sun when first it sets its mind to rise." - - j. s. v.

PICS AND POSTS

a collection of beautiful things

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Urbanites in the woods, doing all our own stunts.

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a 100-word story every day

Surbhi Sarna

The Pursuit of Writing

See Jenny Write

Rain and a Book

Book reviews, releases, writing advice and more... with a pinch of love and sarcasm

Memoirs of my travels

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” - Ernest Hemingway

a k o s i l e

Before I forget

Plumtopia

World of P.G. Wodehouse

Travel Much?

Never cease to explore and tell!

hecatedemeter

Undermining the Patriarchy Every Chance I Get. And I Get a Lot of Chances (Copyright Preserved)

BLADENOMICS

The Reluctant Book Worm

Just Left Awkward, Suddenly Approaching Old

I have no idea how that happened.

Something Over Tea

Scribbles from my notebook

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