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{ Monthly Archives } December 2007

don't write novels on the job

Woman Fired For Writing Romance Novel At Work SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — A Sioux Center woman has been fired a job at an industrial equipment manufacturer for working on a romance novel on company time. Tanja Shelton began working at Sioux Automation in Sioux Center in August, where she had a desk job as a [...]

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I’ve got 22 pages and 7,240 words on this new project. 1773 of those I got Saturday. (and we had company all day Sunday through this morning, so that slowed me down, of course – only 150 yesterday, f’ex) I’ve really gotten a kick out of doing the research for this story. It’s spread over [...]

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radio hound

I have a stuffed dog that’s an AM radio. No joke. I got it when I was very small, and it runs on a 9 volt battery. The last time I tried (a couple of years ago), it still worked and still picked up a good, strong signal. Its just a small, brown stuffed dog. [...]

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christmas memory

I was telling Thomas this one on the phone the other night, and we laughed ourselves silly. Christmas 1993, I drove down to pick Thomas and Tayler up for their two weeks of Christmas with me. We stopped at the brand new Danville Wal-Mart Supercenter to poke around, pick up a few more things for [...]

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