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Welcome to my blog, where you will find entries on everything from writing, poems, politics, photography, my pepsi addiction, my dogs, my family, good books, and twizzlers--everything from the serious to the inane. I will caution that I am very liberal and more than a bit of a cynic. I love to receive comments of all kinds as they help to give me a good dose of reality now and then as I do tend to blather on and on just because I can, so I beg you to jump in, and let me know when I'm blathering. It will be good for me and might keep me from being so long winded. As always, there will be more later . . . Peace.

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Lola's Left-Leaning List

  • Daily Kos
  • Michael Moore.com
  • The Daily Dish
  • The Huffington Post
  • The Mudflats
  • TPMMuckraker

Poietes' Recommended Reading

  • a.k.a. Team Palmer
  • Adult Onset Poverty
  • Blogsurfer.us
  • Christian Yorke: A Writer's Twisted Web
  • Coffee Percolator
  • Leaving Lilac Sky
  • Really . . . Really . . . Seriously
  • RUGator
  • Skyewriter
  • Supersense: Why we believe in the unbelievable
  • The Madder Hatter
  • Truth and Rocket Science
  • Verily I Go
  • White Orchid
  • Willpen's World
  • Zirgar's Fresh New Brain Squeezin's

Visual Stimulation

  • Floridana Alaskiana v2.5
  • JDP Photography
  • Rebecca Keeling Studios
  • When Worlds Collide

Writers' Resources

  • Absolute Write
  • Cute Writing
  • David Bridger
  • Forward Motion for Writers
  • Jimney's Stories: Random Thoughts of a Writer
  • Litopia Writers' Colony
  • Poetic Asides

Who is saying what . . .

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What I’ve Been Writing Lately

  • Nor’easter Update
  • “Weather is a great metaphor for life—sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.” ~ Pepper Giardino
  • “Some people accumulate more emotional rust than others.” ~ Andrew Solomon, Noonday Demon
  • “Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” ~ Kevin Arnold
  • “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~ St. Augustine

Readers Liked These

  • "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius
  • Black Friday is Going to Be Black and Blue and Red All Over
  • "I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface." ~ Stephen Sondheim
  • Lives in Pieces: Vale et memini (Goodbye and I Remember)
  • "Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask." ~ The X-Files

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