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The Muse has a Sick Sense of Humor

by Heather Kephart February 13, 2010 Humor
as Maxwell Smart

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I was so inspired by yesterday’s guest post by Justin Germino that I plunked my ample behind in a comfy chair and had another go at poetry writing.
Like most, I have a teen journal filled with earnest but wanting attempts and it breaks my heart to read them. A bad poem is like [...]

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Flatlanders, Hawks and Chickens

by Heather Kephart February 3, 2010 Introspection
hen and chicks

I’ve long held the opinion that people, upon moving, should immerse themselves in the culture of their locale, rather than alter it to suit themselves with regard to their own familiarities.
When my family moved to Pollock Pines, California back in the early 1980’s, I noticed that people displayed “Stomp Out Flatlanders” bumper stickers on their [...]

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Let’s get it back!

by Heather Kephart January 21, 2010 Inspiration
“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Ev...

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You know how it is.
You accidentally kick out a light bulb while dancing on the ceiling.
Your mini Dachshund rips out an oak tree in the back yard leaving a gaping, potentially dangerous hole.
You drive into a gated community and stop to read a sign on the gate, dumb to the fact [...]

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Texas, Heather. Heather, Texas.

by Heather Kephart January 15, 2010 Introspection
Another Cold Winter Day

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I’m writing to get over the hump. I’ve never before written in this state, this town, or this room. I don’t associate my present surroundings with writing. I don’t associate my present surroundings with anything. It’s all new and unfamiliar. Grey, cold, and confusing.
I lost it the other day. Freaked out [...]

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I can’t see

by Heather Kephart January 12, 2010 Introspection
CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS...

Re-post: Originally posted August 12, 2009.

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Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he’s quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there’s someplace that he’d rather be
He says, Bill I believe this is killing me
As the [...]

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Moms: Don’t Get Sick!

by Heather Kephart December 30, 2009 Domestic Goddessing
sick

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It finally happened – this thing I’d been dreading since becoming a mother. It didn’t ask me first. There was no pleasant tea and biscuit-riddled discussion circle. It came and took me with the force of 1,000 body snatchers. It was more ghastly than watching John Basedow tongue-kiss Rosie O’Donnell at [...]

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We can learn something from Tyler Durden

by Heather Kephart December 29, 2009 Inspiration

Re-Post: Originally posted 11/25/2008
I’m still down with the stomach flu, as is Dennis, but there is a light at the end of that tunnel! Hope you all have a fabulous Tuesday. ~ Heather
The other day I happened upon a link to a fun little left brain right brain test that I will not post [...]

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Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah!

by Heather Kephart December 24, 2009 Family
nativity

I awoke at 4 AM this Christmas Eve and lay there in bed, squeezing my eyes shut, imagining myself in my Grandma’s back room, listening to the muffled voices of my early-rising family. There’s so much comfort in being a child, safe in bed, half-asleep and half in the land of the sounds and smells [...]

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It actually IS me!

by Heather Kephart December 23, 2009 Introspection
llama

Hello everybody. I just wanted to let y’all know that I guest posted at Damien Riley’s blog Postcards From the Funny Farm this morning. Here’s a link to “It’s Not You, It’s Me“.
Thank you Damien for the opportunity, and for having me. It was a lot of fun.
I turned the comments off on this post [...]

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Hyenas and Secret Cheerleaders

by Heather Kephart December 22, 2009 Blogging
ON THE WAY TO LIGHT AND FREEDOM by Jonas Gloc

Originally posted January 19, 2009. I am re-posting not because I am having hyena trouble, but as a tribute to my present “secret cheerleaders” and to those who have inspired me to secretly, and not-so-secretly, cheer for them.
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Here are some fairly “new to me” concepts that I’m going to blow by you. I’ve only recently [...]

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