Category Archives: Miscellany

AuGuest: My Response to Zoyah

On Monday, Zoyah started off AuGuest 2011 with her thoughts on bitterness and how to overcome same. Read that post first, if you haven’t already. I admire the post, because I see the value in the advice. No logical argument can be made against the notion of avoiding extended bitterness, and for choosing instead to be, as …

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On Swooning

Years ago, one of my sisters was part of those Home Interior parties. (They sell home decor and such.) There is a bit of a pyramid nature to it, it seems, because for months the local host, or procurator or whatever it is kept trying to convince my sister to become one. She, and others. …

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AuGuest 2

(Author’s Note: This refers to the Too XYZ blog.) Last year those who follow this blog may recall that in August I hosted several guest posters. I called it the AuGuest Extravaganza. I’d like to be able to do so again this year, and I want to hear from you! This year I would like …

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Coffee Shop Blues

The “coffee shop” has become proverbial. Archetypal even. So much creativity, synergy, business, and overall fairy magic seems to radiate out from the bean stocked, foam covered holes-in-the-wall that encircle the Western World. Lives of this generation change in coffee shops. The advertising campaign that finally puts the start-up in the black is devised by …

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There ARE Small Parts. But Avoid Small Thinking.

If you ever check out my other blog, (and history suggests that you never do), you will know that I am currently in yet another play. This time, the play is Tom Stoppard’s, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. It is in a way Shakespeare’s Hamlet from a vastly different angle. In fact, it’s told from the …

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