On Searching for a More Apt Word Than FAIL: A Substitute and Not a Synonym

Time is up.
NaNoWriMo has ended.
December 1st has passed.
We survived.
And this, this is the story of survival.

Survival begins much uglier than you might think.
It begins with guilt and shame and a desire to fade into the white and the flurry of fragments — of self and storyline and understanding.
The story is a blurred and spinning motion [...]

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Hidden Cache of Lost Marbles

Where did I put my marbles this weekend?

For starters, Berns and I signed up for NaNoWriMo, which if you haven’t heard about is probably the most intimidating bout of dedicated self-torture through literary explosion I’ve heard of and knowingly, even excitedly, volunteered for!  NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it takes place in [...]

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Let’s Play With “A”: Anagrams and Acrostics

I still continue the family game night tradition with the nuclear family I’m creating on my own (which, at present, contains me, my moondoggy, our cats, and our friends). We love playing UNO, Clue, and other famous family fun board and card games! But, most of all, I love word games — Apples [...]

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A BF Shaped Hole in the Universe

There have been a lot of comings and goings in the past few weeks, which have permitted little time to compose new posts, but there will be much forthcoming!
A brief suitcase update:
April B-F has just returned from sunny Myrtle Beach, SC and is busily unpacking and reorienting herself for the work week. Rachel B-F, [...]

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