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It’s National Novel Writing Month!

It’s National Novel Writing Month! (Or NaNoWriMo) There are a couple of websites where you can attempt to write a novel in just 30 days… or, seeing that I’m so tardy in telling you about this, in 24 days. I’m going to http://ywp.nanowrimo.org to write my story & you can find my profile and some [...]

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Five years ago out in the country…

I was in my bed fast asleep, the windows open so that I could hear the sleepy tones of the crickets chirping. I suddenly found myself being pulled from my deep sleep into a semi-consciousness – and from semi-consciousness into a rather sleepy wakefulness. My dad was massaging the back of my neck. I looked [...]

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The Early Edition

“What if you knew beyond a doubt what was going to happen tomorrow? Sure, I know it’s crazy… but what if you did? Whether you’d be rich, or poor; a hero, or a loser; lucky in love, unlucky in life. What would you do? What if, by some magic, you found the power to really [...]

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Remember

I had written two poems this year and gathered a bunch of pictures to put between the lines, but when it was all said and done, I decided that the pictures would be better off alone. So… I’ll either save the poems for next year or email them to ya’ll. =D
 
 
Two of the pictures below [...]

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When nature collides…

This is AWESOME! A volcano and a lightning storm in Chile collided and here are some pictures of the results!
 
 
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The Fourth

Oh, say can you see

By the dawn’s early light

What so proudly we hailed

At the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes

And bright stars

Through the perilous fight

O’er the ramparts we watched

Were so gallantly streaming

And the rockets red glare

The bombs bursting in air

Gave proof through the night

That our flag was still there

Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O’er [...]

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