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Self-Responsibility
Ah, that ever elusive topic of being responsible for oneself. Self responsibility seems like a rarity these days. Recently I overheard a woman explaining to a group of people why she got a DUI. Because, you know, it wasn’t really her fault. No, she was driving along, minding her own business when she swerved (on accident) and the oncoming car…
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I Gotta Be Me….
So in this month’s Merry-Go-Round blog post we were asked to talk about who influenced us as a writer. Next to that, in parenthesis, it said: (i.e. who would you like to be compared to?) When I was a teenager back in the late 80’s the answer would have been, hands down, David Eddings. I idolized David Eddings. But that’s not…
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Another Lifted Blog Prompt
Yes, I’m lifting blog prompts again. Can’t help it – I run across them and think to myself, “Hey, I have something to say about that.” Today’s lifted blog prompt is about a writer’s image. As the ‘celebrity’ networking, blogging, twittering rules go — don’t talk smack about others, don’t be a downer, don’t constantly talk about things you dislike…
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A Woman’s Worth
In the past few days I’ve found myself in several discussions about what it means to be a woman in the United States. Evidently some conservative women now believe that us liberal feminists (neither of which are bad words unless they escape the lips of a conservative) are down on stay-at-home-moms and are somehow marginalizing the job of being a…
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Who’s Your Daddy?
I think I posted once, many months ago, about how we can sometimes end up guilty by association. With social networking, and especially with people like me who use social networking to reach the widest audience possible, I have no doubt many of us are unfairly judged by who we may have chosen to “friend” or even “unfriend”. I have…
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Leading Horses to Water…
One thing I’ve learned over the years is you really can lead horses to water, but you can’t make them drink. This is especially true when it comes to teaching whether you’re training someone for a job or apprenticing a student in magick. Sometimes the only thing you can do is share the information and let the other person take…
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Into Darkness
Into Darkness by Audrey Brice No good deed goes uncursed. When I agree to take some old ritual gear off of a local Order member, of course I end up with a cursed amulet. That’s just my luck. My name is Elizabeth Tanner and I’m a magician, and now my new boyfriend and I are suspects in a murder we…