Category: Random
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Once, at a café
[Photo by Lily Banse on Unsplash] A middle-aged man with short, mostly gray hair, pulled up to the curb, got out of his car quickly, saying, “I’m so sorry” before his door had even shut. He passed me, looked directly at the young man sitting alone at the patio table next to mine, and said…
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It’s the Steps, Baby
Photo by Randall Honold on Unsplash The other evening I was a little annoyed. I had planned to clean my apartment (including the dishes), answer all my emails, balance my checkbook, finish one of the novels I’m reading, finish writing my current novel, write ten more novels, run a marathon, climb Mount Everest, be the first human on…
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Invisibility Potion
Do you ever feel like someone slipped an invisibility potion into your morning cereal? I think it’s happened to me this week. Texts have gone ignored, emails unanswered, phone calls unreturned. Maybe it’s more like an unimportance potion, where anything coming from you just doesn’t feel relevant. An irrelevancy potion. Every artist’s deepest fear. The…
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Social Muckery: A Lesson in Tweeting
OR Tossing Random Thoughts into the Void Photo by Ian Baldwin on Unsplash I had a talk with my boss the other day at my “real job.” He asked what the point of Twitter was. He just didn’t get it and thought it was a waste of time. I found myself trying to defend it, trying to come…
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Artwork and Apathy
Now mobile friendly! I’ve been working on improving my blog, trying to come up with ways to make it more interesting and more functional. I’ve changed the theme for now to make it easier to read, and also because this theme has a mobile version. The last one did not. So, when anyone clicked on…
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Getting-Out-of-Bed Block
I never get writer’s block. Not really. There’s just so much to write. So many ideas [dancing whirling swirling careening] through my head. Sometimes I get stuck on individual words, but I’ve learned to just bracket the concept I’m trying to get at and move on. See above. And sometimes, I’m not entirely sure what…
Tristram Lowe 