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SaveTime & Start Here — My List of Stories By Category and Topic

Welcome to my reading room

2 min readMar 19, 2022

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SaveTime & Start Here — My List of Stories By Category and Topic

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You Need to Tighten Up Your Writing

My love-hate relationship with teachers, editors, and red pencils

3 min readAug 23, 2023

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You Need to Tighten Up Your Writing

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Relax, Norma and I Will Clean Everything Up For You

It’s all about attention to detail

5 min readApr 17, 2024

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Two beautiful women with glasses looking a bit condescending.

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Church Lady Was Last Seen Leaving Rhode Island

It’s no laughing matter

3 min readApr 10, 2024

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May of New England with pin dropped at Providence Rhode Island

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For Heaven’s Sake, Pull Your Finger Out of Your Navel

C’mon, who conducts a 5-year autopsy?

5 min readApr 6, 2024

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Picture of a toddler girl wearing a peach-colored tutu and top. Her top is pulled up, and her left index finger sticking into her navel.

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Beware, An Aquarius With Scorpio Rising May Be More Than You Bargained For

I’d run like the wind if I had it to do over again

6 min readFeb 22, 2024

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Beware, An Aquarius With Scorpio Rising May Be More Than You Bargained For

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Tired of the Rules of Large Medium Publications? Please Try Our Sister Publication, Go Elsewhere

Whine, whine, whine

5 min readJan 14, 2024

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Tired of the Rules of Large Medium Publications? Please Try Our Sister Publication, Go Elsewhere

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Duck and Cover — Charmin and Starbucks Might Be Waiting to Ambush You

There may be a dark side to some of your trusted household items

4 min readOct 26, 2023

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Picture of a woman in an overloaded closet trying to retrieve something and items falling doen off the shelves.

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Okay, Clowns — What Did You Do With All the Real Furniture?

Just say no to Mid-century Modern and other crazy notions

7 min readOct 23, 2023

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Royal blue MidCentury Modern couch with peg les sitting in front of a confetti colored wall.

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Who Turns Down A Free Vacation to Stanley, Idaho? Me, That’s Who

Corporate retreats and forced fun with strangers

5 min readOct 8, 2023

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Picture of the sunset illuminating the fall colors and casting shadows on the valley at the Sawtooth Mountsin in Idaho.

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Jaded Orator

Jaded Orator

Retired medical administrator/former chump, torn between writing empathetic tutorials on getting over heartbreak/narcissistic abuse or life humor and satire.

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