On A Limb with Claudia

I have been painting the porch of our hundred year old Craftsman Victorian for the last week. After spending two days sanding, sweating and chipping away, I now only work in the cool of the morning.
Here’s what I’ve learned:

My new neighbor next door doesn’t walk his one night stands girlfriends to the door in [...]

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A bunch of people have asked about my novels and stories.
I have recently finished the second in a series of novels about a woman who works for Military Intelligence here in Colorado.  They are thriller/intrigue/suspense-ish with a dash of relationship drama.  I am hoping to sell the two books at the same time and have [...]

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“So you’re one of those people,” my friend A. said.
“What people?”
“The kind of person someone calls when they need some thing. I only call you when I need some thing,” he said.
“I’ve noticed. You don’t even buy me lunch.”
“Lunch?”
“Yeah, most people invite me to lunch then spill all their needs and problems.  I give [...]

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Here’s the short list of why I work out:
1. It keeps the pain monster at bay. Two herniated discs in my neck? I think that says it all.
2.
+ Dancing all night = Core Strength. (Yes, that’s right. I wear these 3 1/2 inch heels.)
3. The dream of a four [...]

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Reading:

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hollows

Along with a billion of my closest friends, I pre-ordered this book and it arrived Saturday. I like it. It has interesting characters and great relationships. Sure, some of it was cheesy but oh well. If I want great literature, I can go back to Google [...]

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Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of my father’s death.
I’ve been staring at that sentence for about five minutes. I am brimming with words and emotions about the sentence. And the man.
I want to write that he was a good man, but I’m not all that sure.
He tried. That’s probably a more accurate [...]

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I was on my back squeezing out another set of sit ups (forty twisted crunches for those of you keeping track) this morning, when I thought, “Damn I spend a lot of time on my back.”
I’m not saying that I’m like my friend Model Girl.  She says that everything she’s achieved in life has happened [...]

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Reading:
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy
(What is this?)

Rocker Girl told me about the New York Times Book Reading Group, which after some trouble, I found here. My best friend B. told me that Google was creating an electronic library by scanning book whose licenses have expired. Combine the two and I downloaded [...]

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Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
Around 2001, I took the tiny ship “Open Grove” and rode to the Trademark office. We weren’t a non-profit then, so I paid a lawyer nine hundred dollars to research the Open Grove. Nine hundred dollars. And he came [...]

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I went looking for the New York Times Readers Club and found this (Film Lover’s will Love it – You Tube) instead. (Here’s the article.)
What do you think the universe is trying to tell me?

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