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Some thoughts at random: I read the headline “Quakes kill at least three on Indonesian island” too quickly, and I thought, “But the Quakers have always been a nonviolent people.” And what are Quakers doing in Indonesia anyway? Repeal Day, the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition in the U.S., is coming on December 5, …
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There’s less than a week left in this month of challenges. Little time to blog, so let’s quickly asses the situation…. DrawMo update: I’m drifting behind on drawings — only 15 done, meaning my new quota is two a day for the duration, plus an extra or so when possible. This shouldn’t be a problem. …
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I’ve reached the happy word count of 12,345 words in my NaNoWrimo novel draft, which seems an opportune time to stop and post a short blog entry. It is still not at all certain I’ll reach the 50k mark by the end of the month, due to what I’m gradually coming to recognize as a …
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Pie! Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey And how did the pies turn out? Fantastic. Actually, come to think of it, I didn’t have any of the pumpkin pie, but because the filling didn’t all fit in the pie shell I had to cook the overflow in a custard cup. That’s going to be a fabulous breakfast …
I’m on dessert duty for my family’s Thanksgiving meal tomorrow. I rarely get dessert duty — Mom usually makes most of the dishes and brushes aside my offers to make pie, leaving me to bring a vegetable or other side dish instead. But she had knee surgery recently and is healing only slowly, so she …
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I had scheduled a meeting with a client tonight. I’ve always been open to night meetings, especially since small business owners sometimes have day jobs or other commitments that make it hard to meet during work hours. As I was driving to the meeting, the client called to cancel — feeling sick, not able to …
Today I tried to sketch Spook, my other cat. Officially, Sammy is my cat, and Spook is Sammy’s cat. When I first got Sammy, she was cooped up all alone during the day — I worked in a real office then — and when I came home and tried to write or do anything she …
Carmen Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey The song “Rain Dogs” by Tom Waits popped up on my iPod, and I thought I’d make a drawing of rain dogs. This would be my first DrawMo drawing from imagination, rather than from my surroundings. I envisioned the dogs as like the Hounds of Hell from a comic strip …
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If you’ve been following my Month of Challenges, you know that today I planned to finally catch up on NaNoWriMo. You also probably know me better than I do, and guessed that I would not succeed in this plan. I went to an event in McCandless today, a suburb north of Pittsburgh, to check out …
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A few weeks ago, I traveled to Seattle for the annual LFM Alumni Conference. LFM stands for Leaders for Manufacturing, which is a program within the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I graduated in 1997. I attended a few of the conferences after graduation, and although I always had a wonderful experience — great …