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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Steal from them once, shame on you, but rip out a 10-foot tall pre-lit artificial Christmas tree from a front yard twice and it is more than personal.
"When I came home yesterday night, it had been moved and then this morning the entire tree was gone," said Micah Schroeter. "I was like, our second one has been stolen; you have got to be kidding me. You are stealing from the children and the homeless people that do not have a coat. You are not just stealing from us, but the people in our community that actually need things," said Schroeter.
Schroeter just talked to us Wednesday about her giving tree that her family and neighbors fill with free clothing and supplies during the winter months, giving Hoosiers in need a helping hand. Unfortunately, people are not just taking the items, they are stealing the entire tree.
The "giving tree" has been ripped out of the ground twice in just the past week.
"This tree was full of donations last night, so it is not like we just lost the tree. We lost all of our donations that we had. I was really frustrated," said Schroeter.
In the spirit of the season, the Schroeters are trying yet again.
"This is the third tree that I'm putting up. I don't know how long this one is going to stay up here," said Schroeter.
Now, with another tree up in their yard, the family is not taking any chances and has installed cameras around the home to catch the people if they try to steal again.
"We are just going to keep putting them up until we run out of trees, which I don't think will happen," said Schroeter.
The family of four credits their faith with giving them the courage to push forward and continue helping others.
If you want to donate clothing or supplies to the "giving tree" in Kokomo, mail them to 1700 North Wabash Avenue, Kokomo, Indiana.


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Welcome to my blog for reviewing the best Mexican restaurants and food in Orange County, CA. I intend to cover as many as I can . . . and all sorts and price ranges: "From taco trucks to fine dining . . . and everything inbetween." Newer entries tend to focus on photos more than words. Number of restaurants covered so far: 268+. See The List
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
El Conejo, RIP
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I am relieved that the one on Tustin Ave in Santa Ana is still open.
- January 24, 2008 12:42 PM
I live near the Tustin Ave location.......it really isn't very good mexican food....the good thing is....it's cheap!....and sometimes cheap fills the order.....the one thing that this location has going for it is....it's location!
- January 24, 2008 5:19 PM
- Johnny Automatic said...
the one in Laguna Hills looked open when I drove by it today. Doesn't surprise me that this location closed. It's the only none-Asian restaurant in this center and the others fill up all the parking.
- January 24, 2008 10:40 PM
New to your Blog - will become a regular visitor!
- January 25, 2008 12:23 AM
I've eaten at El Conejo since 1976 and now live in NorCal-I really miss it!
- February 09, 2008 9:46 PM
El Conejo in Laguna Hills will be closing in 4 weeks. I didn't get an answer as to why, but I am assuming it's due to slow business like the Irvine site. So enjoy it while it lasts this month of August!
- August 02, 2008 12:56 AM
I just went to El Conejo off of Tustin this past Sunday for the first time in about 13 years, and boy, it was still as good as ever. I ordered the Chicken Sopes (which aren't listed on the menu, but you can order them) with a side of rice and beans, and they are still wonderful. If you think that you would like the taste of a thick corn tortilla with beans, meat, cheese, guacamole, sour cream, tomatoes, and lots of lettuce on top, then these are for you. Go give them a try. Muy delicioso!!!
P.S. I also tasted the Albondigas soup, and it was the best I have ever had...so...go taste that too!!!
- December 08, 2008 4:25 PM
- ChristianZ said...
Thanks for the info. If you want you can even do a guest review of that location. Sounds like you are very familiar with it.
- December 09, 2008 10:10 AM
Most of the stuff there is only ok, but they excel at chicken! The chicken burritos are among the best I've ever had, and Chicken Sopes are fantastic.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Easiest choice I've made all day
Now, her 6th grade year, a large circus came to the CC and gave out student tickets at the local schools. Pretty smart, huh? Kids get in free, must be accompanied by a parent at $20 a pop. Then all the concessions you HAVE to have. So naturally, I had to suck it up and get over my deep set fear of clowns, and take her to the circus. Oh joy. One fun thing was the elephant rides in the parking lot, not that I could get her on one, but it was still cool; and they had a smaller elephant inside on the concourse that you could sit on for pictures. It was this that puzzled TQ. Up till now, every show she saw at the CC was something or other on ice, and here were elephants. She came to an abrupt halt, staring at the large beast, and I thought, "Oh crap, meltdown in 3...2...1..." But that wasn't the issue. You could see the wheels turning in her curly little head. Oh so quietly, I heard her question, "Elephants....on Ice?!" It was all I could do to keep it together.
We got in and found our seats, got a snow cone and a glow stick necklace in purple and settled in. Well, I settled, she sat on the edge of her seat for two and a half hours. Acrobats, motorcyclists, aerialists, the whole shebang. And.....clowns. Her eyes were wide and unblinking, her smile was ear to ear, and her squeals were happy and joyous when one of the clowns came up to us (did I mention we had really good seats?) and interacted with her. I kept a lid on my terror for her joy. Then there were beautiful Arabian horses, and lions and tigers and bears, OH MY! Well not bears, but there were lions and tigers.
When it was finally over and the lights came up, I looked over at her and she was glowing. She had seen and experienced something in person for the first time and I got to experience it with her. We saw a few more Disney on Ices after that, but we've been back to the circus every year since then, and every year it's the same. Joyful Cute Chick.
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what a lovely memory! I still remember the joy & awe of first seeing B&RBC at 6, there is nothing like a circus! (And re: Disney, well, "Dumbo" really is his masterpiece.)
- January 20, 2016 at 4:59 PM
- JC said...
Bless you darlin'.
- January 20, 2016 at 8:20 PM
Way to go Mom - you are doing it right. My autistic son isn't into animals much (in fact, other than our house cats, he is scared of them). He's terrified of dogs and we are attempting to get him over that slowly.
His obsession is WWE (wrestling). He knows all the stats, weights, ages, birthdays and can go on and on about it. When WWE comes to town, his request to go is too much to ignore - he enjoys it very much.
So I gotta endure watching big guys in underwear act like they are beating the hell out of one another - if it makes him happy, I can share the television for a night a week, easy.
- January 21, 2016 at 3:44 AM
- da_truth36 said...
Truly awesome story. Thank you for sharing such a memory with us!
- January 21, 2016 at 3:49 AM
What a Mom you are! Wishing you and the Cute Chicks the very best from this very DUSTY boat!!
Cap'n Jan
- January 21, 2016 at 3:41 PM
Great story. I too can't stop my disdain for clowns, remember those 'Willy Talk' dolls.
Our compromise is amusement parks. Mom won't do some rides, but I do them all and my daughter is fearless. So we ride until they kick us out, her smile would make me walk through a black hole.
- January 21, 2016 at 7:51 PM
Too cool,but the circus elephants are a thing of the past now.
I sincerely hope your daughter isn't too upset by it when next you go.
- January 22, 2016 at 12:37 AM
nother star in your crown, and nother vote for "Mom of the Year".....and nother reason we love you.....
vaquero viejo
- January 22, 2016 at 7:54 PM


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Greetings from not so sunny Sweden! The wind is raging (okay, it's a little bit breezy) and the rain is pelting, with an expected measly high of 18°C for the week. Summer is most definitely hiding away in a dark corner somewhere 😦
Anyway, school is out (I passed with a resounding A – so, so chuffed) until August and the kids are home, which leaves very little time for me to work, especially not on paid jobs because I get so stressed at not being able to think due to acting as a bouncer, referee or entertainer!
So, I am thinking of putting my time to good use and getting stuck into a series of e-books about Sweden I've been planning for a while. I need some help, and maybe those of you that have relocated to Sweden could be of assistance? I would like to know the most important advice you were given before the move, and what you wish someone HAD told you?
Also, do your Swedish family members bake or cook a special traditional dish that you'd like to share with me? If you share a recipe and it is used, you'd get credit in the book!
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Nancy Allen is followed in an empty subway in these shots
from one of my favorite scenes of all time.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Screenshot 101: Brian De Palma's Dressed To Kill
Posted by Jeremy Richey at 7:59 PM
Labels: De Palma, Dressed To Kill, Nancy Allen, Screenshot 101
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- Steve Langton said...
This is an absolutely terrific scene. Great to see it captured here.
- February 26, 2008 at 1:44 AM
- Jeremy Richey said...
Thanks Steve,
This will always rank among my favorite scenes...
- February 26, 2008 at 10:15 AM
- Rogue Spy 007 said...
This is a really cool scene. Thanks for posting those pics. I love this film.
- February 26, 2008 at 10:29 AM
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Sunday, March 25, 2007
Spreading Peace and Freedom in the Arab World
This video has been making the rounds, but in case you've missed it, you'll want to see how U.S. troops are spreading peace, freedom, and goodwill in Iraq. Note the solemnity the troops show about their noble mission. At times like these that I think of the courageous words of Herbert Spencer that you'll find at the top right of this blog.
Hat tip: Brad Spangler and Information Clearing House.
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The Grandest View in the World :- A bit of an outlandish title and statement but they are not my words. They were the words uttered the famous English painter John Constable (1776 - 1837) when he stood here and looked out upon the panorama from Devil's Dyke which is (aprox) 5 miles north of Brighton in Sussex. The Dyke itself is a 100m deep V-shaped valley and is the longest, widest and deepest dry chalk valley in the country. The hills surrounding the valley offer views of the South Downs, The Weald, and even the Isle of Wight on a clear day (the IOW is over 60 miles away from Devil's Dyke). This view is looking north from the top of the National Trust run site.
Dark Days :- The dramatic combination of a sunset and incoming storm. The light was having the life squeezed out of it which was causing a strange and eerie darkness to fall way before its time. The beach fell still, the gulls stopped flying and screeching and it felt like the world was about to draw to a close and simply pop into oblivion. It didn't. But I managed to get reasonably wet as the storm eventually made land and threw itself at me with all it'd got. As with a lot of my beach shots this was photographed at Ovingdean Gap to the east of Brighton.
Church and Pension :- Shot back in 2013 as I was heading back to England via Germany after driving all the way to Romania. This church and guesthouse / restaurant / bar are located in Obertrubach which is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany. We'd driven late at night through nothing but forest and at one point thought we were lost and that the sat nav was playing games with us by sending us the wrong way and into the middle of nowhere. But then we eventually went over the brow of a darkened hill and there it was all lit up and looking very inviting indeed. This was my first time in Bavaria and I found the architecture and surroundings absolutely stunning.
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Monday, 2 June 2014
why the pairing of Morrissey and Pamela Anderson is just perfect.
this morning the latest in a line of spoken-word videos was
released by Morrissey to promote his latest single EARTH IS
and what a moment it was when I realised it was PAMELA
ANDERSON in the video with him!!!!
I have long admired Pamela and have often wondered if they
knew each other. I remember reading that Morrissey had gone
to a thanksgiving dinner Pamela had had, where the guest of
honour was the turkey!! ... but had no idea if it was actually
hence my joy when I realised it was her in the video with him.
and this pairing of Morrissey and Pamela is just perfect ... but
not just for the reason you might think.
you see Pamela is a strange mix in this modern day and age.
sure there have been hyper-sexual stars before and after her
... but none quite like her.
you see, she exudes qualities of the golden age of Hollywood,
when women were sexual, and strong (but not arrogant, mean
and big-headed because they knew they HAD IT) ... polite and
if she had been born in the UK, in the north, probably 30 years
earlier, I have no doubt she would have graced the cover of a
'Smiths record.
that's why it is so perfect that Morrissey likes her ...
and of course the other reason why it's perfect, is because she
has the same beautiful spirit as Morrissey in using her voice
for the voice-less animals. it makes my heart swell knowing
that these 2 people are in the world MAKING A DIFFERENCE
... and now knowing that they are friends.
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Sunday, 1 June 2014
Morrissey releases another brand new song ISTANBUL and it's epic-ness is almost too much to take in for this poor moz-fan blogger.
It's pretty funny. and very british-like. like waiting for a bus.
you're waiting, waiting ... and then 2 come along all at once!!
that's how it is, as we are greeted by another new Morrissey
song, only a few weeks after the last one!! ... of course I'm not
complaining - but it's just funny how one minute you have
nothing and then just as you are getting used to the fact of
having a new Morrissey song - another one is out and taking
over your world!!
I'm still sticking to my rule of not listening to any of the new
songs via youtube footage. If I'm at a gig it's one thing, but I
hate hearing things on tinny youtube videos for the first time.
and it's paying off. because the full impact after I've bought
these singles and heard them in their full glory is worth all
the previous sacrificing.
so I've finally heard my 2nd track off the new album.
there is so much I love about it, it's hard to know where
to begin. listening to this song, I just feel consumed by it,
but in a VERY GOOD WAY - i.e. it's so long since a song
has made me feel this way, you almost forget how music
can (and should) affect you.
so here in 10 points (yes I am still liking this 10 point thing)
is why this new moz song is a wondrous affair.
1. the start, it is some kind of a war-speech or some spoken
word jazziness??? no time to ponder, the song is off ...
2. very different to WORLD PEACE. this takes it up to
the next level. I love the brutish swagger it has and how
that seemlessly melds with an eastern blissed out vibe.
3. it is both sinister and uplifting AT THE SAME TIME.
all cinematic and wide-screen ... thrilling and desperate.
desolate and euphoric. all these things HIT YOU ALL
AT ONCE ... oh mozzer.
4. this means that the affect it has on you, is the following:
a/ wanting to just get lost in the ethereal-ness of it all.
b/ wanting to punch the air out of sheer jubilation and
shout those words out. it's going to be quite a quandry
I am in when I hear it live. what to do ...
5. Mozzer's words, his voice, his tone ... when they suddenly
come into the song, amidst all that music (and how it has
left you feeling) means it just gets you RIGHT THERE!!!
oh mozzer indeed.
6. the bit at 1.39-1.45 makes my heart melt. every time.
7. in this rather lovely new moz tradition, we get another
spoken word video ... is it just me who thinks Morrissey
would make a rather fine actor!!?? ... actually scrub that,
we don't want to lose him to the acting world and all those
luvvies!!! (oh Steven, oh Steven!!)
8. the ending makes me think of Suede + DOG MAN STAR
(all Asphalt World/We Are The Pigs ending) which floors
me *nearly* as much as everything I've previously heard.
9. two songs in, I have no idea how I'm going to feel by the
time I have actually heard all of the album.
10. In a Parallel world, I would have loved somebody like
Oasis or The Stone Roses to have released this and to
have witnessed all the praise and adulation heaped upon
it ... and then switch back to the ACTUAL WORLD where
it was basically ignored ... whilst just thinking to myself
Istanbul and previous single World Peace Is None Of Your
Business are available to buy now on itunes.
the album World Peace Is None Of Your Business is released
on 14 July
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I have been a bit too busy lately to write. I have been finishing up several projects including a 7" for Parenthetical Girls, mixing 2 different records for Richard Webb, and working on Debora Petrina's orchestral arrangements. I have postponed my L.A. move for a little bit and it has freed up some time to get started on a bunch of business I have been meaning to take care of, most excitingly is this new BAND CAMP thing! Band camp seems to be really really cool. Right now ALL of the money goes directly to the artists and you can listen to entire songs and download at what ever bit rate you want. I put up my records as well as some bonus material for the records. I also put up some unreleased material including past live stuff, soundtrack stuff and a collaboration with an amazing Mexican singer. Check out my Band Camp page to just take a listen or buy some tracks!!
Talk to you soon!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
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Back again with another Jubilee themed card.............
Used the Pennant Parade stamps and punch- bunting is everywhere at the moment. A bit of Twitterpated paper and a few retired stamp sets but shows the value of getting them while you can, you never know when they will come in useful !
A quick little one, easy to rustle up when in a hurry.
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I found this at Infidel Blogger's Alliance. Midnight Rider made this comment:
"And this is Iran recently. This is why the riots and uprisings are not a non-story AND NEED TO BE ENCOURAGED AND SUPPORTED BY US."
Iran: Hanging your Fellowman VideoTracked by: A normal day in Mahmoud the Madman's Iran..... Excerpt: Found at Maggies notebook, nothing could be more apro pos on the weekend the elections were apparently stolen by the mad Mullah's and their mad mad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that an typical day in the Town Square of Tehran Iraq. Weblog: Chicago Ray's News Views Tracked: 06.14.09 - 3:20 pm


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a dozen miles across summer rest loop to shell island and back around. warm sun with cool wind. beach and trail and woods and puddles and I remember less specific thoughts than the impression of my thoughts—the swatch of the mental theater. . . . did think of impressionism as a modern paradigm, appropriate to the nature of my blog. maybe post-impressionist? never mind. . . . .
mindscapes while running today included visualizations of prime number topography on the number line. . . . . Mandelbrot sets of sand and dune and sea formations . . . . . the aleph and the sand and wasn't infinity once defined as the number of sand granules in the world? and wasn't it like 2^77 or something strange like that? I should revisit that. . . .
the aum or the ohm and the Buddhist community in Brunswick county just down the road. a run on their land?
I have to take a moment and praise the Brunswick nature park where the run for ray was held. . . . this is a new park, and the trails saw more action that day than ever before. a nice natural habitat, though I do believe a paper company had been through here maybe ten or fifteen years ago and simply replanted much of the land with evergreen (quick regrowth period) and whatever seeds found their way into the soil. . . . . but town creek cut through the land with a beautiful vista onto black river and a fine kayak launch- the kind with rollers so you launch dry—was built barely a quarter mile off the main entrance road. oaks and dogwoods, pine and spruce all grew from the very fertile dark soil of the hilly terrain, with sand folded into some of the other areas of the park. ultimately: the hours of hard work and toil earned the southeast coast a wonderful new park.
while I am in this mode of contrition and acknowledgement, my wife takes the cake for giving me hell. but I must also admit that she is the one who pushed me outta the bars into the running paths. the transition was brutal, ungraceful, and frustrating (for both of us), but in running, just for today, I found a tremendous spiritual satisfaction and thus a personal growth. an emergence. albatross became the phoenix.
I began running with kas in the early days of our relationship. after work, and in early morning, she would get me laced up & zipped up and put me on the hills and wooden slats of the boardwalk. crisp breath and coffee and shallow, clotted lungs and torment and agony and the path was not an easy one. soccer lungs had long collapsed, though my legs remained strong and capable. I followed her merciful pace into a longterm commitment. methadone and miles. . . . .
during this time I smoked. kas was an ex-smoker who outran her nicotine addiction, and she was adamant about my aptitude to quit successfully. so eventually I did quit, two years ago. my lungs are still weaker than most, and in fact were weak as an infant. . . . . the abdominal muscles that work the lungs in long runs have strengthened significantly, and my lungs have adapted to longer runs. I am well and whole and running, and frequently with kyote in the running stroller. i take aspirin perhaps once a week for lower back aches-- usually work related.
march 7th. 2010.
geoff roes. jeez.
sunday. work has been very busy, unusual for this time of year, and the life-investment of my job has been enervating and frustrating. . . . seems I have either plenty of time or plenty of income, but never both simultaneously. a good run was due, and I was forced by prior commitments to run solo at 8am to finish by 10, so I ran from the house to the beach and back, in vast morning sun and a total of around 13 miles. . . . ran kas to her hair appt. and kyote and I had irish oatmeal and seattle coffee at Atlanta bread company and read some magazines. . . . . eventually kas finished and we went to trysports and bought my new shoes, asics gel-nimbus 11, the same shoes as last, though 25 dollars more (even with 20 dollars off). . . .
Range of Rage. march 9, 2010
eight miler took me round the beaches and the dunes were trampled beneath dredging machinery. . . . . a little railroad earth for the drive home (a long way to go). once home, water and water and haydn's opus 33 string quartets, third and fourth of the set of six.
asked off for march 27th, the day of the gator trail 50k. figured I'd give it a try, getting off that is. . . . run 31 miles, grill out on our new grill, watch a film. . . . . have a spring saturday with the family. if I can walk. still many preparations and obstacles to clear however. did use up the rest of my dick's sporting goods gift card for some gu gels, some clif bars, and a hammer gel, just to experiment on some longer runs. hydration and nutrition remain absolutely foreign to me, so the research and efforts begin in earnest for long runs.
memories of banner elk, elk falls, lees mcrae, wooly worm festival. . . . . deep gap mountain homes. . . . all the majestic beauty of the Appalachians. summers in amish country in Pennsylvania. Gettysburg. back to the nc mountains & the parkway.
many thoughts hover around visions of my farm—my future working farm. . . . . . for creatives who have strayed. work, run, eat well, see the cycle of their food and thus provide them with fundamental meditations, and let them heal their inner pain. my farm. . . . . a healing commune and a dream far, far in the future I fear. first step farm. robert frost. always been a dream of mine, to establish a self-sufficient community. . . . . a healing space. something between a working farm and a monastary. . . . . never mind.
This year's brought 243 miles of runnin'.
carolina beach state park and greenfield park, two local treasures.
happy trails y'all!
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Turkey's down!
What a day of turkey hunting we had Friday 10/29/10. Myself, Jim and Ben hunted in Cherry Creek, NY. We hunted two big fields where we knew the birds were feeding and traveling. I took a nice hen in the morning from my Double Bull blind as a flock of 30+ birds came to feed in the buckwheat. Ben got his hen in the afternoon, she was one of 27 birds feeding in the picked corn field he was watching. It was a cold rainy day but it sure paid off! I can tie all the turkey tail nymphs I want now...
Jimmy and I with my bird.
Ben with his hen, a 52 yard shot, yes that's reaching out there!


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The S3 has a 13.3-inch FHD IPS LCD with 1920 x 1080 pixels, running on either an Intel Core i3 or i5 processor, equipped with an Intel HD 520 graphics card, 8GB of memory, and 512 GB of HDD. One may expect nine hours of battery life.
Acer S5 Features
The S5 offers a wider range of specifications designed for heavier applications. S5 has a gigabit Ethernet, Wake-on-LAN ready and a higher battery life of 12 hours maximum.
Pricing and availability
Cuki Pendor, Acer Philippines business lead in digital display devices, said the units will be sold at the following prices: The thinnest ultrabook, Acer Swift (S) 7 will be available soon. Official price tag is P64,990. The S5 with i3 processor at P39,999, while the i5 version is at P44,999; the S3 with i3 processor is at P32,999 and the i5 version at P42,999.
#Aspire Campaign
The Acer Aspire S series is also aligned with the #Aspire campaign where it aims to help the hardworking Filipinos who aspire and improve their lives personally and professionally.
The #Aspire campaign have two famous personalities and influential people in career development and business - Francis Kong and Megan Young now as #Aspire brand ambassadors.


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Update: A childhood home of Oscar-winning actress and singer Judy Garland, who played Dorothy in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," has sold in Bel-Air for $5.2 million.
The 1938 two-story house, with dormer windows and white columns set against a red-brick clad veranda, was designed by Wallace Neff. It went into escrow a week after coming on the market at $5.5 million and closed in two weeks.
On more than 21/2 acres, the 5,500-square-foot house has five bedrooms and 61/2 bathrooms. A swimming pool, cabanas and a writer's cottage sit in the backyard.
Hugh Evans of Partners Trust, Brentwood, and Cory Weiss of Partners Trust, Beverly Hills, were the listing agents. Evans also represented the buyer.


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I had these wonton wrappers that had to be used up. I've made pot stickers before, but it's been awhile. I was thinking about ravioli, and had both eggplant and portabello mushrooms in the refrigerator, but both called for cooking them ahead before making them in the filling to stuff the ravioli, then I'd have to make a sauce to go on top. With Wade's work I never know when he's going to be home, so with all that prep work then sit and wait....no I wasn't going to do that. So I did make a trip to get some ground pork, Publix has the best if you are not going to grind it yourself. I always cut back on the amount because we have a small family.
This was the first time I used my bamboo steamer. My regular steamer pan I use practically everyday. I had cleaned out my cupboards so I can paint the inside and found way in the back a 10" skillet with 3" sides on it fits my bamboo steamer perfect. I went out in the back yard and cut a piece of my banana leaf to line it so the dumplings wouldn't stick. I should of used a little more banana leaf, and I'm keeping that pan handy where I can reach it. It's a really good pan too. I so need my kitchen redone. When that happens, I'll make sure you all see it as it goes.
I loved working with the wonton wrappers, but there was a lot of them in the package. This recipe made quite a few. I only had two layers on my steamer. I made them all up in separate batches and warmed them the next day in a saute pan and had post stickers. I might try freezing them next time, because we still had a lot of dumplings left. With the left over wonton wrappers I made ravioli (portabello & ricotta). I made Eggplant Parmesan with my eggplant.
100 (3.5 inch square) wonton wrappers
1 lb ground pork
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger root
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons thinly sliced green onion
4 tablespoons soy sauce
3 tablespoons sesame oil
1 egg, beaten
1 cup finely shredded Chinese cabbage
1.In a large bowl, combine the pork, ginger, garlic, green onion, soy sauce, sesame oil, egg and cabbage. Stir until well mixed.
2.Place 1 heaping teaspoon of pork filling onto each wonton skin. Moisten edges with water and fold edges over to form a triangle shape. Roll edges slightly to seal in filling. Set dumplings aside on a lightly floured surface until ready to cook.
3.To Cook: Steam dumplings in a covered bamboo or metal steamer for about 15 to 20 minutes. Serve immediately.
For the dipping sauce I used tamari sauce, toasted sesame oil, rice wine vinegar. Garnished with sliced green onions.


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FLORENCE — The Florence-Penrose School Board could face a new decision this year as it decides how the district will handle a new state law that allows students to use medical marijuana on campus.
"Jack's Law" was signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper on June 6 and the law states that students with a valid prescription for medical marijuana will be allowed to receive treatments on school property with or without help from a school nurse.
The law was passed in the state Senate by a 35-0 vote and the House by a 56-9 vote.
According to the Denver Post, the law comes from Jack Splitt, 15, of Lakewood and his mother, Stacey Linn.
Splitt, who suffered from cerebral palsy, would wear to school a skin patch that delivered a cannabis-derived treatment.
Linn began advocating for medical marijuana in schools after a school employee in February 2015 ripped a skin patch that was delivering cannabis-derived medicine off Jack's arm.
Splitt unexpectedly died Aug. 24.
On Monday, during a school board workshop, Superintendent Rhonda Roberts told the school board that the law has been passed and it is up to each school district to decide if they want their own policy to go with the law.
"Each (school) district can administer a policy of their own that allows them to be more specific," Roberts said or they can choose to operate on what the state has made.
She said that many districts in the state are waiting to develop their own policy because there are a lot of unknowns regarding the issues, especially since marijuana use is still a violation of federal law — even for medicinal purposes.
Everyone on the board agreed that if children were to take medical marijuana on their own, then it would become a problem, so they would want to have a policy to ensure nothing like that could happen.
As of July 2016, less than one percent of patients registered for a medical marijuana license in Colorado were under the age of 18 years old.
A total number of current, active patients registered for medical marijuana use in Colorado is 102,620 people.
Only 204 patients in the state were 10 years old and younger and 133 patients were between 11 and 17.
In Fremont County, more than 1,300 people were registered for medical marijuana usage.
Roberts said that she is not sure of any students in the district who takes medical marijuana currently, but if the board wants their own policy on top of the state's law, then they would need to consider it sooner rather than later.
School Board President Tommy Covington said that a lot more research should be done first before the board writes their own policy.
"I think we are going to have a lot of questions," he said, adding that he has no issue as long as there's a way to make absolutely sure those who legitimately need medical marijuana are the ones taking it.
Sarah Matott: 719-276-7648, firstname.lastname@example.com


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Re fried Beans:
- 1 bag dry pinto beans (small bag, 2.5 cups)
- 3/4 onion peeled and chopped.
- 7.5 cups water
- 4 tsp. salt
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 1/8 tsp. ground cumin
Put all in crock pot and cook on high for 6 hours or more. Drain beans but SAVE LIQUID! (I always put a colander in the sick when I need to save liquid to remind me, My friend Beautiful Mrs. K taught me that!) Mash the beans with a hand help blender until smooth and creamy, adding reserved liquid until desired consistency is achieved. Fill homemade flour tortillas with a generous amount of beans down the middle. Put some shredded cheese on top (don't skimp, this MAKES these sooo yummy as the hot beans melt it) and fold up into a burro. Serve with Spanish rice on the side. Yummy!
Spanish Rice:
- 1.5 cups white rice, not instant.
- 2 Tbs. Minced onion
- 1 can of Chicken Broth
- 1 can tomato sauce
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1/4 tsp of salt or more to preference
Saute onion in a little oil in pan until translucent about 4 minutes. Add Rice and cook until golden, adding the garlic the last minute of the sauteing time. Slowly add the chicken broth, tomato sauce, and the salt and bring to a boil. Then cover the pan and reduce heat to low and simmer 30 minutes or until rice is cooked. Let sit 3 minutes and then fluff with fork and enjoy.


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There is a lovely author/illustrator named Aaron Zenz who keeps a blog of his children's art. (All FIVE of them!) Every so often, to celebrate the blog's anniversary, he invites other illustrators to be inspired by his children's creations and re-interpret them.
It's super fun and it's happening right now. Check it out here.
I've participated in the past (here's the previous one) so he invited me back for more fun. Honestly, the hardest part is picking a piece of art to work from. Those kids are so talented and creative. It's a difficult challenge to settle on a single piece of art, but I managed. I choose a work entitled: O Is For OGOPOGO by Elijah. Here's the original:
I fully intended to do collage when I chose it, but then none of my papers were speaking to me.
I went a different way completely with pen and ink. Here's mine:
If you haven't already clicked over to Aaron's blog, Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty, do it now. (But only if you want to smile.)
In other news: Magoo has been having a good week at middle school. He has mastered the padlock on his locker, he likes his teachers and hasn't had any issues with jumping from class to class, and he has some friends from his elementary school that he sits with at lunch. All in all, a big thumbs up!
Have a great Labor Day Weekend, everyone! Thanks for stopping in!
Friday, August 29, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
First Day of Middle School!
Magoo is off to his first day of middle school! ACK!
Yesterday we went in for a walk-through. Magoo got his schedule, found his locker, practiced the combination, and made his way through the CRAZY crowded hallways (Parents, can you please have your conversations with each other off to the side?) and met all of his teachers.
This transition is such a biggie. What a lot to remember, when you think about it. For starters, he had to catch a bus for the first time. (I hung back so I wouldn't embarrass him, and I won't go tomorrow, but I did want to see what time the bus actually pulled up. 7:35.)
He has to work a combination lock. He has to switch classes and navigate a building that is all new to him. I dread the cafeteria moment. We all know those moments - when you walk in for the first time and don't know where to sit. Ack! But those are important defining moments of youth, aren't they? They show us that we can live through life's uncertainties and then, later, bond over how weird and awful they were.
If there's one thing I can say about this middle school, it is this: they seem to get it. They really seem to understand how difficult this transition is for the kids and they have all sorts of things in place to help them. I'm sure Magoo will be fine.
As for me, I quelled my crazy-mom energy by cleaning his room.
MAN - was that room messy! He's a Lego kid, so the floor was covered with them. Landmines galore! And he has a lot of books, so those were stacked and shoved all over the place.
It took me 90 minutes, but I sorted out the Legos from the Bionicles, put all his DS games away, made the bed ...
... sorted through the books (making a nice pile for the Book Barn), sorted through too-small clothing, and put the miscellaneous toys in the toy chest.
See that floor? You couldn't see that before!
Yes, I know, I'm creating a young man who doesn't know how to clean his room, but it calmed me. And this exercise was about me. :)
Thanks so much for stopping in! I appreciate you spending a little time with me. Have a great Wednesday!
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Monday, August 25, 2014
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
It finally happened. I was nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
Magoo wanted to do it too, so with the help of Curly and Mo, we started off our morning with an icy shower.
If you want to join in the fun, just do it. Or go here to donate money for this great cause!
Happy Monday, everyone!
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Monday, August 18, 2014
Holy Cop Premiere
Last night was the world premiere of Magoo's first film: Holy Cop. Hand-delivered tickets went out that morning. Donuts were served that evening to guests in formal attire.
Magoo thanked this guests for coming. Then, without further ado, we showed the film.
I think it went very well. The audience laughed where they were supposed to and they asked interesting questions in the Q&A that followed. Then they wanted to watch it again. (It's only 3 1/2 minutes long.) Magoo handled himself like a professional: very courteous and informative. Then he ran outside to play with his friends.
Now, please allow me to share with you, HOLY COP.
Hope you all enjoyed it!
Have a great week!
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
More S'mores, Please
Magoo had never had a s'more.
We don't camp and even if we did, his dietary restrictions make almost everything in a s'more a food-don't. But I recently found a recipe for sugar-free marshmallows and we decided to give it a go. (I already knew how to make gluten-free graham crackers.)
I went out and found some sticks, Mike lit a fire, and Magoo roasted his first "marshmallow."
My graham crackers are a little cakier than regular graham crackers, but they still held the gooey "marshmallow" and melted carob chips altogether. Mmmmmm.
It was a whopper of a mouthful, but it was a big thumbs up for Magoo!
Magoo milestones:
Roasting marshmallows over a fire - check
Eating s'more - check.
(And he got his first cell phone, too. It was a good day for Magoo.)
Hope you had a wonderful day involving melted chocolate (or something similar) too!
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Holy Cop
A few months ago, Magoo was joking around in the back of the car and he came up with an idea for a cop show parody. He used to be a priest, then he became a cop. Now he's ... Holy Cop!
We joked around about it for awhile, then I thought This could be a summer project.
Magoo was into it, so he wrote a script. In the beginning he made the "actors" and I made the sets, then, when it became too much work, I made the "actors" too. See, we're using paper puppets and you have to make new ones for each scene, so it can get a bit tedious.
We're recently wrapped principal photography ...
... and Magoo just finished editing the first cut on iMovie.
Tomorrow we hope to do the voice overs and find some background sounds. Then, next week, perhaps we'll have a premiere party. Once we have the VIP Premiere I can share it here on the blog.
So far it's been a good project for lazy days when it's too cool for the pool and there are no buddies around. I figure this helps him learn a bit about writing, do some art, and learn some new computer skills. Not bad for a summer project, right?
Hope you're all having a productive summer as well!
Take care!
We joked around about it for awhile, then I thought This could be a summer project.
Magoo was into it, so he wrote a script. In the beginning he made the "actors" and I made the sets, then, when it became too much work, I made the "actors" too. See, we're using paper puppets and you have to make new ones for each scene, so it can get a bit tedious.
We're recently wrapped principal photography ...
|Holy Cop questions a suspect at Toilets R Us.
|Magoo works the Holy Cop puppet.
... and Magoo just finished editing the first cut on iMovie.
Tomorrow we hope to do the voice overs and find some background sounds. Then, next week, perhaps we'll have a premiere party. Once we have the VIP Premiere I can share it here on the blog.
So far it's been a good project for lazy days when it's too cool for the pool and there are no buddies around. I figure this helps him learn a bit about writing, do some art, and learn some new computer skills. Not bad for a summer project, right?
Hope you're all having a productive summer as well!
Take care!
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Kayak Attack
We enjoy kayaking - not to the point where we own our own, but when we're on vacation, it's a nice thing to do. It's lovely to coast down a river - enjoy the scenery - feel the cool water on your hand - see nature - and, occasionally, navigate a turn or two.
That's what it used to be - but kayaker, BEWARE THE RIVER THAT ALLOWS TUBING!
You see, in the first part of the river, it wasn't so bad. There were a few tubers to navigate around, but it was manageable. But then we got to the fishing gate (below.) Once we past this point, the river was infested with tubers! (They must have had a launch around there or something.)
The thing about tubers is that it's a completely different pace and experience than kayaking, and therefore the two should not share the same space. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, cars drive in the street, right? Tubes are slow. Kayaks are faster. Tubers like to cluster together like little islands. Kayaks may travel together, but they don't huddle up. Tubers drink, smoke, and apparently blast '80's music from a radio as they leisurely float down a river. Ok - fine - if that's your jam. But this is what that means for a kayaker in the same waterspace. (See below.)
It's hell on us.
Navigating a fallen tree is one thing. Navigating a floating cluster of twelve tipsy people is another.
As I passed by one such cluster, a lady said to me, "You should join our group! It's less stressful!" I stared at her and sneered. I did. I sneered. I wasn't trying to sneer. I was trying to give a good polite Michigan smile, but I couldn't help it. I was so irritated I wanted to scream, "YOU'RE what's causing my stress!" But I didn't. I just sneered.
So, it was sorta a nice kayak trip, but it could have been better.
Ok, I'm off to the dentist. Gotta run! Thanks so taking some time to visit!
Monday, August 4, 2014
Climbing the Bear
One of my favorite parts of our Michigan trip was visiting the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes. I had been once before, when I was like eight or nine - younger than Magoo. I remember them being massive - which my young mind did not exaggerate at all - they're huge. In face, they're even bigger than I remembered.
We'd clear a ridge and I'd say, "I think the next one is the top." It wasn't. We'd clear that one and there would be another ridge to clear. "That one must be the top." Nope.
We got high enough to see Lake Michigan, but it was a good ways yonder before we would have been able to set foot in it - so we settled for the view and considered it a success.
Of course, the rewards of climbing up that dune is the fun of coming back down!
It is fun to run down a dune! Hey, that could be a new children's book: It's Fun to Run Down a Dune!
It's fun to run down a dune
and sing a jaunty tune
but don't fall in the pits
you'll get sand in your bits
and be cleaning them out until noon.
And on that bit of nonsense, I'll sign off!
Thanks for stopping in! Have a lovely Monday!
Sunday, August 3, 2014
At the Cabin
Hi guys - sorry I've been away but, well, I've been away. My family and I just got back from a lovely week at the family cabin on the Northwest coast of Michigan. (Not the Upper Penninsula, which is sort of it's own thing, but the north part of the mitten. "Up North" to locals.)
It's difficult to see the front of the cabin b/c it's right on the Betsie River, so this shot (above) is taken more from the side. (Below) Here's the view we wake up to every morning. One morning there was a man fishing in the river and another morning it was fun to watch a parade of kayaks maneuver through.
I'll share some of our Michigan adventures throughout the course of the week, but most of the time was spent being leisurely. Magoo snapped a pic of me painting on the deck.
Here's the end result: A bowl of tiny plums. (This is a photograph, not a scan, so it's a little dark on the corners.)
Hope you all had a lovely week!
Thanks for stopping in!
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That is an incredibly cute hat! how exciting :))
You are really elegant. I love your style.
Voglio il cappellino!!!! Potete farlo anche in taglia XL?
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Bellissimo il Miao Hat!
suppongo che sia unisex. Se cosi' fosse, lo vooooooglio!
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Lovely hat! 🙂 Will it ever be available for sale in the U.S? I can not find it on the list.
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Strange as it may seem, The SCBWI Westside Writer's Schmooze Blog is back in business, ready to pick up where we left off. Unfortunately, we left off posting so long ago (the 40's, it turns out) that neither Karol nor Charlie can recall the details of all the Schmoozes we missed. Fortunately, Karol is an extremely anal woman (and, in addition to that, she keeps good records) and was able to unearth these long hidden, never-posted (most likely due to the scarcity of reliable internet ISPs in those days), blogs from back in the day.
The first post she found does indeed come from the 40's, when we held a Schmooze devoted to niche writing, asking the (as it turns out literally) age-old question, Is Niche Your Niche? The topic was appropriate to the times as detective novels were all the rage back then, even in kids' books. The information we exchanged, however, remains as useful as if the Schmooze were actually held on June 12th 2013:
Pony up to the typewriter, sister, and we'll lay it all out. Last Schmooze we talked niche markets and magazines. You wanna get a little scratch for your troubles, don't you? Then you gotta learn about niche marketing.
What's the skinny on niche? Well, according to the business dictionary, it's "concentrating all marketing efforts on a small but specific and well defined segment of the population. Niches do not 'exist' but are CREATED by identifying needs, wants, and requirements that are being addressed poorly or not at all by other (s)…"
|"Killin' Karol"
So what's that look like in kid's books? Our resident femme fatale "Killin' Karol" took us literally under the covers of THE book on Kid Lit Markets (niche presses are only part of the tome, she claims), which coincidentally is known as "The Book" and is available for free from the SCBWI.
Though Karol, of course, had murderous ulterior motives, (just ask her four former high school school principals — if you can find them), The Book was an icy G & T. Take a sip and you'll find, among other things, that it lays out all the niche presses churning out books right now. Any ink jockey worth his blotter would be a sap not to snatch up The Book toot sweet.
About this time "Weasel Charlie" coughed his way into the room and started singing like a canary, ratting out http://rockyourwriting.com which tells you how to find the niche of what you've already written. He went on to squeal on Cynthia Leitich Smith, who has a blog on "how to niche market yourself!" We thought he was done, but he musta gotten some bad hooch, 'cause he started ranting about "Author's Access," which (he said) was some kinda thing called a "podcast," featuring writer Ellen Feld gabbling on about her horse niche market. We never figured out if he was talkin' about heroin or a heroine.
|"Weasel Charlie"
Thankfully, it was just about then when Big Joe Taylor thundered into the room. Charlie squeled out of there like a rat on the Titanic, but not before yelling from the doorway something about blog posts murderers Dr. Peggy Sissel-Phelan (Fiction Notes) and Jane R Wood (Children's Book Writers-Florida) who apparently made some sort of killing (in niche marketing, that is) and lived to tell about it. Then the Weasel squealed off into the night.
All eyes were on Big Joe now as he slowly thumped across the room and planted himself in the chair at the front. "I'm here to wise up you saps to the rag trade," he growled. Seeing everyone's perplexed looks he clarified, "Magazines, you hacks!"
Everyone knew Big Joe was a monster in the mag world: Winner of 2009 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for a piece called Flying Balloons, The Story of the Montgolfier Brothers in Cricket Magazine, and more a bunch of stellar Cricket pieces since then. We also knew that nobody was going anywhere until Big Joe had said his peace.Right away Big Joe put us wise to the amount of work, determination, talent and luck it took to become "Mr. Cricket" (his uptown moniker). Seems his award winner started its life as a picture book. He liked it but thought it had too many words. He then tried turning it into a historical novel but felt he was "losing the essence." Last time Big Joe felt like he was "losing the essence" of something, 23 characters ended up at the bottom of a shredder. Balloons mighta ended likewise but Joe then thought of Cricket Magazine. He submitted it there, found the editors copacetic, ended up winning the SCBWI Merit Award, and carving out a nice territory for himself. Call it a niche within a niche at the magazine – lightly fictionalized stories about scientists and artists who made amazing breakthroughs in their fields. (Word to the wise: You wanna keep scribbling? Steer clear of Big Joe's niche.)
He then handed out a flyer with the Carus Group's various magazines (of which Cricket is one). Here's a link with the 411:
Suddenly, Big Joe stood up. Everyone ducked, ready to meet their makers, but it turned out Big Joe was just letting us know that the Schmooze was over and it was time to go. Sobered, we filed out of the library, into the night.
If you missed the e-book rapfest last night, man you missed a true happening. Greg ("the Fibber") Pincus blew all our minds, making the scene in a man-miniskirt, Jeff ("the Webmaster") Cox showed up in a bright orange Nehru Jacket, and Josh ("Brother#3") Hauke wore his trusty torn jeans and "Keep on Truckin'" T-shirt. The Tribe gathered to hear "The Three" pontificate on e-books and self-publishing — "the future, Mr. Gittes."
Charlie ("Mr. Jones") Cohen, looking clueless as ever in his Brooks Brother's suit, questioned the gurus about the state of self-publishing.
Greg set the tone, laying down some TRUTH about expectations and goals – you gotta be honest about both. What do you want to get out of it? Why are you doing it? Greg rapped on how he released his amazing compilation of poems, The Late Bird, to learn how to release an e-book as well as to build on the audience he had grown online. Though he did not get rich off the e-book (yet!), he achieved both goals. "Know why you're doing it, man," he said, "and you'll know what you need to do."
Not unlike Greg himself.
|"The Webmaster" on a bad day
Propitiously, Josh emerged from his cloud of smoke just then to lead us all back into the groove. "It's just transition, man," he said, "like when we went from CD's to MP3s. There's always curves in the path; you just gotta learn to enjoy the view." He went on to rap about the different path he took with his Tales Of The Brothers Three. He wanted to compile the first year of his amazing Web comic strip into a book. Rather than mess with e-books and all the formatting troubles that had so bummed out Jeff, Josh decided to release it digitally as a pdf (no formatting issues at all!) as well as in a (beautifully) printed book on Amazon. He said the two formats complemented each other: he sold more hard copies but made more scratch off the ebook.
Everyone nodded. Except Jeff, who just growled, "First get your book into shape. Make sure you've vetted it, rewritten it and made it the best work you can do. And find better underwear."
Then Greg, pupils dilated, started talking about the "world wide webs," saying we should check out this book-designer Joel Friedlander's blog about self-publishing and design, which had every possible thing you could want to know about how to design and release your book.
"He's awesome dude," agreed Josh, "but if you really want your minds blown, check out this hombre, Matthew Herzberg. He created this whole website about a fictional town and he writes all these stories about all the people in it. The WEBSITE ITSELF is his e-book. YOU GOTTA SEE THAT THING!!!"
We had to restrain Josh at this point – in his excitement he was throttling Greg.
We had to restrain Josh at this point – in his excitement he was throttling Greg.
Jeff shook his head and pointed accusatorily at the gathered tribe. "These squares don't care about that, man," he sneered. "They're just looking to make money.
All right Squares! You want to make money off self-publishing? Go to http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/how-can-the-average-writer-make-money-self-publishing-e-books and satisfy your mercenary little hearts.
And while you're online you might visit http://www.thecreativepenn.com where this chick, Joanna Penn will give you a 51 page free download about marketing.
All right Squares! You want to make money off self-publishing? Go to http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/how-can-the-average-writer-make-money-self-publishing-e-books and satisfy your mercenary little hearts.
And while you're online you might visit http://www.thecreativepenn.com where this chick, Joanna Penn will give you a 51 page free download about marketing.
Josh chuckled the weird vibes away. "That's it man. I think we did it."
And we had. Everybody split to do their own things.
Our plot Schmooze began like so many others, with Charlie trying to bring us all into his personal hell (#noncomposmentisleaders), laying bare his personal struggles with the very subject he helped choose (#whinyjew)
"I've always been suspicious of plot," whined Charlie. "Always thought of it as lies rather than story. A hard metallic infrastructure that wants to bend my characters into some predetermined and ultimately dishonest shape. At the same time, I know that the only parts of anything that an audience can pay attention to are those that feel like they are integral to the story being told. So where does that leave me?"
"I've always been suspicious of plot," whined Charlie. "Always thought of it as lies rather than story. A hard metallic infrastructure that wants to bend my characters into some predetermined and ultimately dishonest shape. At the same time, I know that the only parts of anything that an audience can pay attention to are those that feel like they are integral to the story being told. So where does that leave me?"
"In need of my wise counsel," snapped Karol (#obnoxiousknowitall), as she, wisely, opened the floor up to the Schmoozers for comments. It turned out Charlie wasn't entirely alone as most Schmoozers there confessed they were more vexed by plot than not, many wishing they could find a way to make do with less of it (#writershatewriting). We were lucky enough to have a teacher in attendance, though, who quickly set us straight. She told us that kids in her classes were often "plot junkies" who read only for the plot. She had to work to get them to slow down and actually pay attention to details.
We came to the conclusion that plot was but one of many doors you can open to get into your story. Still, once you were inside your story, you needed a plot to make it work. This led to a spirited debate between "Pantsers" (writers who write by the seats of their pants) and "Plotsers" (those who map out a course). This, of course, brought to mind the great, overlooked fable by Aesop, "The Pantser and The Plotser" which centered on the struggles of a blathering butterfly and a boring ass to tell their mother her yarn was broken. The fable, of course, went on to inspire the famous vaudeville team of "Pantser and Plotser" whose career exploits were legendary, as well as their fall when Pantser pantsed Plotser and revealed Plotsers plotz (#whatthehellwasthat??, #imnotreallysurethisbitworkscharlie, #atleastiwrotethepost, #yeahforonce, #wherewerewe?).
The Schmooze then settled down to some information that one can actually use to help you get through plotting (#finally):
Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park and The Book of Mormon had some great tips on discerning plot from "stuff" in an impromptu writing class they taught at NYU which you can watch HERE.
Screenwriter Blake Snyder created a 15 beat story structure that he immortalized in his "Save The Cat" writing guides. Rita Crayon Huang #hernewbabysbabymama said that she found it too daunting to start her story with but used it as a diagnostic tool after she finished her drafts. You can check out ol' Blake's ideas at his posthumous website: http://www.blakesnyder.com
Still very much alive is Bruce Coville who gave one of his amazing plot talks at the 2011 SCBWI conference (read a recap HERE). Bruce has so much great stuff to say, there's no way to do it justice here, But one of the big takeaways was to complicate, complicate, complicate. Use the senses. Complicate not only your character's overall goal, but the individual scenes too.
Linda Sue Park says to look at your character's internal and external quests, and focus on the tension between the two. She has a great explanation of it on her site: http://www.lindasuepark.com/writing/writing.html
Charlie found a surprisingly useful entry on how to plot a story—in wikihow! (Hint: It's character and conflict!)
More traditionally, there was Freytag's Story Pyramid (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement).
Martha Alderson, the Plot Whisperer can take you through her plotting steps on her youtube channel. She's all about finding your characters' flaws and she speaks sweetly from a garden with lots of dappled sunlight and chirping birds! (#makeyouwannabarfandlovelifeatthesametime)
And of course, Charlie's favorite plotting device, Joseph Campbell's amazing Monomyth – an assessment arrived at by studying myths and stories of every hero's journey throughout time and from all around the globe. Charlie loves it because it's so inspiring and yet so vague and open to interpretation.
Here are two versions of it to peruse:
Campbell's Monomyth
And one that's at least slightly easier on the eyes #sheeshsmallprintwhydonha:
Here are two versions of it to peruse:
Campbell's Monomyth
And one that's at least slightly easier on the eyes #sheeshsmallprintwhydonha:
Finally, (SOME SCHMOOZER) brought up Randy Ingermanson's (#evilvilliannamesMarvelneverused) notorious "Snowflake method" of plotting, a method so detailed and anal and terrifying that it made Charlie want to kill himself and even gave Karol some pause.
For those of you who dare, though, here is a link to his page:
And that was it (#againfinallynoreallythistime). Fully flayed by the long evening we all plotsed out of there just in time before the library closed, escaping by the seat of our pants. (#seewhatwedidthere?)
Now that we're all super-caught-up-to-date, we hope you'll join us for any or all of our awesome upcoming Westside Writer's Schmoozes:
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Until we see you again (like next week), keep passing the open windows!
Charlie & Karol
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Picture Book Critique Night, Wednesday April 9thNovel Critique Night, Wednesday May 14th
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Today, I tutored a sixth grader named Mizan. I asked her if she brought any homework to do, but she did not have anything with her. No backpack, no folder, no papers, no pencils. For a moment, I was at a bit of a loss of what to do. I asked her what she was learning in school, but all she said was "triangles." She would not elaborate further on what they were doing with triangles. I had no idea if they were learning about the different types of triangles and angles, finding area and perimeter, the Pythagorean Theorem, etc.
I decided to start with the basics. I had her draw four different types of triangles--equilateral, isosceles, scalene, right--and then describe the defining characteristics of each. She did fairly well with this.
"Have you ever found the area of a triangle before?" I asked.
"No, but I know how to find the area of a rectangle," she replied.
She knew that the area of a rectangle could be found using the formula A=b*h. I proceeded to show her how a rectangle can be divided diagonally into two right triangles. Therefore, I showed her, the area of a triangle could be found using the formula A=1/2*b*h.
I had given her a problem in which the base of the triangle was 2 and the height was 5, making the area 5. She quickly memorized this equation and put it to use successfully. However, there was just one problem.
"How do I multiply 10 times 1/2?" she asked me.
As a student at the end of sixth grade, I had not even anticipated that Mizan would need help with multiplying fractions.
One thing that I have noticed happens frequently with students from underserved school districts is that they often are missing important pieces. It's analogous to constructing a building but leaving many important structural components out of the foundation. Especially in calculus this year, I have learned more than ever how important a good foundation in math is, and the middle school years are some of the most critical.
Mizan and I sidetracked from our triangle lesson for a while to instead focus on fractions.
"I don't want to do fractions. I hate fractions."
I showed her what I consider to be the easiest way to multiply a whole number times a fraction:
10 x 1 ---> multiply the top two numbers = 10 = 5
1 2 ---> multiply the bottom two numbers 2
She understood this concept very quickly and correctly answered every problem on multiplying fractions. On occasion, she would forget to simplify the fractions after multiplying; once I would remind her, however, she had absolutely no trouble reducing fractions.
While we were at it, I decided to show her how to divide fractions. While she had technically learned this in school a few years ago, she could not remember how to do it (and had probably never mastered the topic when first taught).
I taught her that dividing fractions was just like multiplying by the reciprocal. I think the term "reciprocal" scared her a little at first. Once I showed her that you just had to flip the number in the numerator with the number in the denominator, she no longer struggled with dividing fractions.
Next, I made a bold move and decided to show her the Pythagorean Theorem. Again, the was initially really freaked out by the title of the concept. While she wasn't particularly jumping for joy over learning some new and harder math material, she didn't object to it, either.
I gave her a problem with a right triangle that had a base of three, a height of four, and thus, a hypotenuse of five (which is the most simple of the Pythagorean identities). Mizan understood how to square three, four, and five, but she had absolutely no idea how to square root twenty-five. She didn't even know what a square root was. Again, I was slightly surprised, just because squaring and square rooting sort of go hand in hand, like addition and subtraction or multiplication and division. I briefly showed her how to square root a number and she subsequently got the right answer for the problem, even though it took some time.
After such a challenge, I decided to review something a bit simpler with Mizan. We reviewed how to find the area and perimeter of a rectangle, along with the basic properties of a rectangle. After just a few practice problems, she became very quick at solving anything that had to do with a rectangle.
It was now halfway through the tutoring session, so I decided to give Mizan a series of problems over all of the topics we had covered today, along with a "challenge problem." At first, I was only going to give her five problems.
"Do you think five problems is enough?" I asked, anticipating that she would tell me that it was actually more than enough.
"I think you could actually give me six or seven," she replied with a sly smile.
I felt victorious. At the beginning of the tutoring session, Mizan could only talk about how much she did not like math, especially fractions. Now, she was asking for more questions!
So I gave her seven problems, with the last one being a challenge problem. She got nearly every problem right. The few errors she did have were just with forgetting to simplify fractions and the like.
Mizan even came very close to solving the challenge problem. The problem I gave her was of a shape made up of a right triangle and a rectangle. She was able to see that the shape could be broken down into a triangle and a rectangle. She also found the area of both the triangle and the rectangle independently. After giving her a small hint about adding the two areas together, she did so correctly, successfully conquering the challenge problem.
At this point, Mizan seemed much more open with me, and I could tell how much better she felt about her progress in math.
A few minutes later, it was juice and donut time. Mizan and I talked for a while, actually more than most kids are willing to talk. She asked me about my school, about the classes I was taking, and how my spring break was. She was also very surprised to learn that I was just a high schooler and not a college student. Only students at the Saturday Tutoring Program think that I am older than I am (5'2" problems).
After juice and donuts, Mizan received the writing assignment for the day, which was relatively simple since it was the last session. Mizan had to set three academic-related goals for herself and sign a contract that she would follow through on these goals over the summer.
Mizan made the following goals:
1. Read 40 minutes a day
2. Go to the library at least once a week
3. Practice her math skills
After finishing the contract, I told her that we could play a game for the remainder of the session. She chose BrainQuest, which is a game where you ask trivia questions from various subjects. However, Mizan would only play if she asked me questions as well.
Even though the questions were designed for 6th graders, a few of them even stumped me! The nice thing about these questions was that they prompted further discussion regarding academic topics.
For example, one question read:
Which is the smallest unit of an element: an atom or a cell?
Mizan said a cell, which is obviously the incorrect answer. However, this prompted our conversation about the difference between living and non-living things, what an element was, etc.
We continued playing BrainQuest until the session was over. Mizan was very polite and helped me put all of the pencils, books, and supplies away. She thanked me for helping her and wished me a good spring break.
"I think I'm gonna save these notes and these problems you gave me," she said as we started to leave. "I want to keep working on this math until I understand it fully."
I was very happy with Mizan for all of the progress she made and for being such a cooperative student.


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Then you have Washington Presbytery which, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette :
... has filed a countersuit against the Rev. L. Rus Howard and a church treasurer, demanding return of all church property and rent for use of the buildings.
There is some background to this, the majority of the original Peters Creek UPC:
has occupied the property since a 207-26 vote in November to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA) for the more theologically conservative Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
But Washington Presbytery, the local governing body of the Presbyterian Church (USA), declared the minority who wanted to stay with the denomination the "true church."
It argues that the minority owns the property because the majority broke church law by taking the property without presbytery approval.
The majority filed a lawsuit last year to keep the property. The countersuit against the Rev. Howard, pastor of the majority, and Robert Elmes, the treasurer, asks for return of property ranging from the sanctuary to the handbells, and funds, financial instruments and pledges estimated to total about $3 million.
The church, as a registerd Pennsylvania corporation, filed suit against the Presbytery to keep the property saying that the 'trust clause' is in violation of its corporate rights. The Presbytery, following advice given by the PCUSA HQ in Louisville, is claiming that its a Hierarchical church, which to any Presbyterian lay person is a bunch of hooey !!
The original church suit named the Presbytery as the defendent, however the Presbytery's countersuit is:
against the Rev. Howard, pastor of the majority, and Robert Elmes, the treasurer, asks for return of property ranging from the sanctuary to the handbells, and funds, financial instruments and pledges estimated to total about $3 million.
A Peters Creek spokesman said that its okay for the Presbytery to file a countersuit against the church corporate, after all it filed against the Presbytery.
But to file a suit against two individuals, one of whom is a 74-year-old widower on a fixed income, is ... just an attempt to harass and intimidate and scare,"
The reply from the interim presbyter was basically, they sued us, we're suing them. However, the original suit (I believe) did not name individuals. Then you have the slight dig at the EPC by the interim presbyter.
We are preparing for the trial, as is the judge, as are the folks in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church," he said.
AFAIK ... the EPC has not involved itself in ANY litigation between congregations and a governing body of the PCUSA, and to imply that is self-serving and just mean.


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Its been 2 years and I'm about to head back to India for another round of yoga therapy. I've just realised that I never finished writing about my last trip to India nor my trip to Thailand last year! I think this is partially because when I'm in Mysore (the town where I do yoga) it doesn't really feel like travelling any more as it is so familiar. Also, because of the hip problems, sitting at an internet cafe writing my blog is actually quite painful and counter-productive. Regardless, apologies to anyone who was following the travel blog at the time. It is my plan to update the blog during this trip, however not as regularly as I used to in the old days.
To finish off the 2012 story, here is something I wrote about the my last trip to Mysore 2 years ago. Its been helpful for me to revisit this blog post as I'm feeling very nervous about this next trip. The hip hasn't been so good since I wrote this, I had another major flare up of the hip pain (purple leg, swelling and hospitalisation) and have done months of physical therapy and rehabilitation. I've had another round of tests and while the condition of the hip joint has deteriorated, my doctor, physiotherapist and surgeon have all given the green light to do the yoga in India. The key is 'strength over flexibility' and let pain be your guide.
My month of yoga therapy – written May 2012
Wow, I can't believe I've written about my month of meditation but I haven't said anything about my month of yoga therapy in India! I've been practising yoga on/off for the last 3-4 years, the off times are usually caused by the issues I have with my hip. Despite all the hip problems, I still keep coming back to yoga. I love it, it grounds me and keeps me healthy.
I discovered yoga while travelling in India and it is there that I met my wonderful teacher Mr Vinay Kumar of Prana Vashya Yoga. Having already been to see Vinay with hip issues (I'd freshly torn my ligamentum teres) and had great results, I was in no doubt that I would benefit from another visit to get past the rest of the post-surgery hip pain. I managed to get 2 months off work and was about to book the trip when I ended up in hospital with acute hip pain.
Its kinda silly… my pain had been spiralling downwards for months. I went to see a new Osteopath on the Wednesday, was in a lot of pain for a couple of days because of his treatment but when I got out of bed in Saturday afternoon I felt amazing. The referred pain from poor alignment/limping..etc had miraculously vanished and all I was left with was pain right in the middle of the joint. In true Julia style, I over did it. Too much standing, sitting and walking plus a sailing trip led to a very full feeling joint, swelling and increased pain levels. I had an exam coming up and was busy at work so I hired crutches and kept pushing through the pain. Unfortunately I pushed myself to the point I wasn't sleeping or eating properly… it got pretty bad. To cut a long story short, my leg started going purplish and the swelling/pain made it hard to look after myself and I ended up in hospital. Yes, I am the kind of person that sometimes needs a kick up the butt to listen to my body.
Despite 10 days in hospital, 6 weeks of bed-rest and a gradual return to work over 1 month (part time work/bed rest) I still wanted to go to India to do the yoga. My family and friends were worried but I was determined to go because I knew in my heart it was the right thing.
So in December 2011, still on crutches and taking a lot of medication for the pain, I travelled to Mysore to study with my teacher. On arrival we had a catch up and discussed the plan for my stay. I ended up doing 1hr of Pranayama (which is like a breathing meditation), and 90 mins of yoga therapy a day. 6 days a week, for just over 4 weeks. The focus was on strength (over flexibility) and ensuring I was resting when I was not in class.
The results were AMAZING. Within the first week I felt the circulation come back in my left leg which was a huge milestone and a relief. By the end of the trip I was off my crutches, walking without a limp and I was having pain free moments for the first time in a year. I managed to get off all my daily pain medications and I was only taking pain killers as required, sometimes going days without taking any medication.
These are amazing results in a short time, especially given what I'd been through in the few months before I arrived in Mysore. My surgeon was flabbergasted when he saw me on return from my trip. This was great because before I went away I could tell he'd pretty much given up on me and thrown me in the 'too hard chronic pain' basket. I think (hope) I am giving him a new perspective on alternative therapies.
So, what happened next…. Well, I came back to New Zealand with instructions to keep up the yoga therapy but found it very difficult to maintain the commitment while living my regular life. It was hard enough going back to work for 8hrs a day without adding 90mins of yoga and 1hr of pranayama. I got pretty sick for a couple of months and took this as my body telling me to ease back. So I am disappointed to report I haven't been able to keep it up as well as I'd hoped. I've lost quite a lot of strength and the pain is creeping back. I do continue to practice my yoga, I go to classes once a week and do short practices at home. The focus is on strength and I am working towards another trip to do yoga with my teacher, hopefully this time we can cement the improvements I make so they last longer.


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Hi Tom,
first of all thank you for answering. I don't know, maybe it is just me, but looking through the Grundisse I had the impression that for Marx what comes first is the free play of human creativity, living labor. His discussion of the "civilizing power of external trade" seems to point out that it is only through trade of surplus product that human products become quantitatively comparable on the base of their exchange-value - as opposed to being only qualitatively comparable as use-values. Independently from exchange the object created by our own labor is only valuable because it is useful, not as embodiment of an abstract "socially-necessary-labour-time". We can compare our home-made trinkets only qualitatively, not quantitatively. So first is human creativity, then is trade and the commodity. And what's next? Then, while all of the product of social labour comes slowly to be commodified ("not even the bones of saints can resist this alchemy"), we have primitive accumulation.
My problem with primitive accumulation in Capital is that it is something that Marx leaves at the margin of the argument, as if it was an appendix. We have to "assume the existence of a primitive accumulation". One can not understand why primitive accumulation happened in that specific moment in time and in that fashion reading Capital. It is a story of the original sin, it is not explained either theoretically or historically. Why did primitive accumulation starts? In the Grundisse you have an explanation, more or less explicit, which says it has something to do with the effect of growing English foreign trade with Holland. One could also think of a technological reason, and I guess there must be also that in Marx somewhere.
But I don't think that saying this, saying that also primitive accumulation must be dialectically explained, is to state that there is an identity between the historical content of the book and the exposition of its contents. Indeed I think Capital can hardly been thought as an historian's book, although clearly there is lots of history in it. The exposition clearly does not want to be historical. So, I am not sure, but I think I really agree with your comments on "On the Method of Political Economy".
About the mode of exposition: Marx is trying to explain "the whole movement of capital" which "seems to turn around in a never ending circle". The explanation of that circular movement takes the first 25 chapters (all of the book but 70 pages). The last part, on primitive accumulation, poses two theoretical arrows at the opposite sides of the circle of capital. One very real, violent and historical - that is the moment of primitive accumulation - the other still to come, a possibility which Marx wants to indicate. I think the purpose of the last part of Capital is to draw these two theoretical arrows. That's why Marx doesn't go on explaining the origins of primitive accumulation itself. In my understanding the origins of primitive accumulation seem to lay in commerce, "external exchange" and the rise of commodification. I don't know if you would agree with that or if you see it as problematic.
Maybe on wednesday we will end up having a massive group fight on the correct understanding of primitive accumulation!
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Catherine Lighter remembers the evening when her youngest son, 21-year-old Jamison Terrell White, left with friends.
"He said he'd be back, and I said, 'OK,' and he kept looking back at me. We were staring at each other for a long time. And then he left."
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Neither knew a car accident later that day would leave him with fatal injuries. When Lighter got the call telling her Jamison was in the emergency department at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, "I couldn't breathe," she said. "I couldn't think."
After two days in intensive care, Jamison White died, and his loved ones were asked if he was an organ donor.
At first, his family said no to the idea of donating organs, Lighter said. But then she prayed.
"God was telling me to give my baby the chance to save someone else's life," she said. "God said, 'Come on. We're fixing to bless somebody today.'"
Paul Davis, who received a pancreas and kidney from organ donor Jamison White, sits beside Dr. Mark Earl, associate professor of transplant surgery, during a news conference about the surgery Dec. 16, 2013
One of those people was Paul Davis, who needed a pancreas and a kidney as the result of his type 1 diabetes, a disease he had battled since the age of 9. His was the first UMMC pancreas transplant. The two met after she saw him on television, thought the organ might have been her son's and reached out to him to see how he was recovering.
They've been close ever since. Smiling at Davis' photo, she said, "He acts just like my son."
Stories such as these are represented by the photos on UMMC's Wall of Heroes. A collaborative effort of UMMC, the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency (MORA) and the Mississippi Lions Eye Bank, the memorial displays are a tribute to honor patients who gave the final gift of organ, eye and tissue donation. The Wall of Heroes is on display in the lobby of University Hospital, and a pediatric Wall of Heroes is located on the first floor of Batson Children's Hospital. Both feature photographs of donors submitted by loved ones as a testament to their gifts allowing others to live.
David Wilbanks, father of organ donor Walker Wilbanks, speaks to donor families during the annual Wall of Heroes ceremony at UMMC Friday.
Another of those selfless givers is the family of Walker Wilbanks, a junior football player for Jackson Prep who died in 2014 after amounts of water and sodium in his body became out of balance during a football game.
Helping MORA, father David Wilbanks said, was how the family could "glorify God and glorify Walker."
"Five people are living today because of Walker," he said.
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"A 55-year-old man in Florida has new lungs. A 16-year-old boy has a new heart. A 55-year-old man in South Carolina has a new kidney," Wilbanks listed. "And a 34-year-old mother from Mobile has a new right kidney and pancreas."
Finding a way to give to others despite grief has honored Walker's memory, Wilbanks said. "What would your loved one want you to do?"
"There were so many ripples from donations throughout our community," said Doris Whitaker, director of pastoral services at UMMC. The actions of donors inspire others to give.
"There's such a delicate balance in expressing gratitude in organ donation," said Lee Ann Lutken, director of adult nursing services at UMMC. "We know what that gift meant and the grief the family faces."
The need for organ donation is great, as more than 120,000 Americans are on organ transplant waiting lists. About 1,500 of those are Mississippians.
Every 10 minutes, another person is added to those waiting lists. And every day, about 22 people die waiting for an organ transplant.
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Lighter has since come to know Davis and others whose lives were saved by her family's selfless choice of organ donation. On display at the altar at UMMC's chapel were some of their photos.
"I talk with them and they talk with me," she said. "We keep up with each other on Facebook, and we've been to each other's homes. One is coming to see me at Thanksgiving. We're all family now."
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I was so excited today because one, I won tickets to advanced screening of a movie I truly love, the last sequel to The Hunger Games, Mockingjay Part 2. Two, to the adventures I will take because I am going alone and three, today was my twenty-first birthday eve.
I still went to office which I regret for one second because I was stuck two hours on traffic and numerous red lights but I still got in, just in time. I bought a burger (for my lunch and dinner) and hot chocolate from Starbucks (because my head was throbbing like hell). Inside the cinema, they (ETC) held a little program and gave away some prices, happy enough, I got one too!
The movie got me so terrified, as usual, and got me screaming and realized on the latter part that I was the only one screaming AF. Sorry for being such a spoiler for those who won't read the book but yes, Prim died, right in front of Katniss Everdeen's eyes and don't worry you'll never be alone on being emotional, I cried AAMOF. Anyway, the movie ended so soon, goosebumps were still there yet, teary-eyed and feeling all over. Ughh, gonna be missing this.
I walked towards the terminal and got to the bus immediately and me was like counting down minutes before tomorrow. Today, I was really happy probably, my day. Hopefully, the next day too, birthday!


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Magic buttons
Symbolic for opening and closing, coming and going, the magic buttons are given to the Chatwin children at the end of the fifth Fillory novel, "The Wandering Dune". The magic buttons are saturated with magic, and enable individuals to freely travel between Fillory and Earth. Buttons open and close seams – and open and close the seams between dimensions.
The Chatwin children divide over the buttons, some believing they should be used, with others believing they are too powerful, and that going to Fillory has to be earned. The buttons are ultimately hidden, but found one at a time by Martin Chatwin as he slowly becomes the Beast. By the events of the novel, Martin needs to locate two more buttons to control them all – one sold to Penny by Lovelady for $80,000, and which Quentin, Penny, Alice, and the others use to travel to Fillory.
Fillory novels
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