lyrics from Virgin Prunes [true life story]
It isn’t every day that I get tagged for a meme, but the delightful June Shin charged me with the fun task of following her insightful answers in this one, and I’m just now getting around to filling out my replies. This is a good way for those who [...]

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lyrics from Tones On Tail [rain]
Everyone has a Dad [or several], but that doesn’t mean that the man who donated his genes is going to be very good at the role.
I’ve had two. One – the gene donor – I only knew for the first two years of my life. The other is my Stepdad, [...]

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This collection’s a mixed bag of interesting stuff. Enjoy!
PoeWar.com: 30 Poems in 30 Days Project -essays and assignments for 30 days worth of poetry creation. This looks like an interesting creativity booster exercise!
50 Tools Which Can Help You In Writing – Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help [...]

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Rock on – I’ve wanted to re-read Walden, Mr H.D. Thoreau’s testimony to the joys of simple living, and now I can do it for free, through Wikisource!
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Walden
A simple living manifesto: 72 ideas to simplify your life – yet another great compilation of links from the fantastic website, zenhabits.
Unclutterer.com is another great website for daily [...]

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At The Storque: One Woman’s Road to Veganism
At Walk Score: America’s Most Walkable Neighborhoods [my town got a 55/100]
At The Simple Dollar: Lifestyle Choices as a Hedge Against Inflation
The lifestyle choices page has lots of great suggestions that, in my opinion, we should be following everyday anyway. One of the best ones is to drink [...]

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Today was a fantastic day!
I’ve been hanging out with my pal Helen Mosher all weekend, as she’s in the area for a visit – and we decided that Saturday was obviously “go to Asheville and see the sights” day. I know I was just there last week with Melissa and Bo, but there’s never enough [...]

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Here’s an interesting blog post with 15 widespread creativity myths, from LifeDev.
http://lifedev.net/2008/07/creativity-myths/
I thought that all my friends interested in working on their creative output might find this list insightful.

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lyrics from REM [driver 8]
So here I am, on the first day of my journey with the I plant the seeds Artist’s Way cluster as we work our way through the book… and I’m already creating objections for myself. Not on the more rote tasks like the Morning Pages, oh no… it’s about the tasks [...]

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No music quote to start this off! How odd! However, I can share that my latent DJ brain has been working overtime, throwing together in the Big Mix In My Head a mashup between:
The Who [my generation]
Jet [are you gonna be my girl]
Iggy Pop [lust for life]
I haven’t actually tried any of these out together, [...]

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Lyrics from Cranes [Pale Blue Sky]
Sorry for the weekend-long silence; my server was down, my provider was down – enforced radio silence. Whoops!
I’ve taken to looking over rss feeds for blog posts and articles that might pertain to my subject matter here, but I find that so many of them are either the same recommendations [...]

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