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member name: Gretchen Lee Bourquin
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May 02, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
Early last week as I was working on my new book, Almighty Whispers in Our Souls , the prequel to No Sensible People , I started to get one of those emotional kicks in the stomach from a character I . . .
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September 20, 2008 01:03 PM EDT --
One of my personal downfalls is that I have never been a fan of planning. I internally cringe when I'm asked at an interview "where I want to be in five years." I don't know, and I don't . . .
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December 06, 2008 09:40 AM EST --
This week I have been working hard, both at the day job and trying write potentially profiting things. I keep trying to establish myself as a “real writer” and honestly, sometimes I feel a bit like Pinocchio. . . .
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December 27, 2008 07:48 AM EST --
Today marks my son's 18th Birthday. Today, he is officially an adult. It's never been my own birthdays that made me feel older, it's been my kids.
My son skipped second grade, so he graduated . . .
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January 10, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
The thing about writing, or the creative process really, is you can't always create what you want in one sitting, and chances are you don't want to. In the new year I've decided that I want . . .
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January 24, 2009 07:28 AM EST --
Since I started my weekly blog several months ago it has been my intention to try to keep things positive as much as possible. I make life observations, relate them to my quest to balance the day job, . . .
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February 21, 2009 12:46 PM EST --
Yes, I have been elusive in my blogging for a while now, as I've been trying to get a rhythm going with a little more "practical" writing, on eHow and now Associated Content . . .
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March 14, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
Last week my book club met. We read The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, which was very good-- although difficult to get through the beginning. The narrator is less than . . .
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October 26, 2008 09:42 AM EDT --
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Edison
Expectation is a driving component in just about everything we do, even when we make a conscious . . .
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November 22, 2008 10:11 AM EST --
Yesterday, the daytime temperature dipped below 10 degrees for the first time this season in my area, and yesterday I dug my winter coat out of the closet for the first time. I was fighting it. I wanted . . .
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January 03, 2009 09:48 AM EST --
There's something about early January. The good parts of the holiday spirit is lingering a little, people are making small promises to themsleves- Resolutions. There's bits of new self-confidence . . .
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March 07, 2009 11:54 AM EST --
So the weekend is here and I find myself with a large laundry list of things to do. Laundry included among them. I also need to go to the pet store to restock guinea pig supplies. Go to the grocery . . .
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April 18, 2009 12:58 PM EDT --
This coming Monday, I will be heading to Marshall, MN to Southwest Minnesota State University to celebrate the life of one of my writing mentors, Bill Holm who passed away in February. I have spent more . . .
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December 20, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
Have you ever watched a baby wriggling on a blanket on the floor? Maybe there is a toy a few feet away. Maybe it is just the end of the blanket. But whatever it is, they do not see the limitations. Few . . .
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September 13, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
Last Thursday marked seven years since September 11, 2001 – a date that nearly everyone who is old enough or capable of remembering back seven years can recall where they were during the attack. I was . . .
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November 29, 2008 12:15 PM EST --
One of the things I'm committing to this fall/ winter in order to save money is to bring homemade soup to work with me a few days a week for lunch. Depending on how well the soup of choice goes over . . .
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December 13, 2008 09:17 AM EST --
This past week I came across a DVD I had misplaced a while back, 13 Going on 30 with Jennifer Garner. In the movie Garner plays 13 year old Jenna Rink who, thanks to a little magic wishing dust, wakes . . .
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January 17, 2009 10:40 AM EST --
I am really looking forward to this upcoming week. I'm on vacation from the day job until January 26 - nine whole days, but it doesn't mean I don't have plenty to do. I have articles to write . . .
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April 04, 2009 11:44 AM EDT --
I'm a big baby of a writer by nature. I want to write what I want, when I want, how I want, and then I want everyone to go read what I've written and tell me how brilliant it is -- how . . .
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April 25, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
It turned out that last week, not long after I posted my blog about heading to my college Alma Mater, that the trip was canceled due to a medical emergency in my friend’s family. Since I don’t have . . .
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