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Exercise Wednesday: Cheating
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Especially if the grass looks really good in a pair of skin-tight leggings or makes your knees weak when he takes of his shirt or has eyes...
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Exercise Wednesday: What Kate (or Ted or Jackie) did
Last week a character cheated. Cheating always results in something that came next. Today is what comes next. The stereotypical response is anger–rage. A lover scorned. Key-scratched cars. Public...
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Exercise Wednesday: The hug
Have you ever had a hug that’s like a cool bottle of water on a hot day? An embrace, either expected or not, that makes the walls you worked so carefully to construct, crumble into dust the instant the...
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Exercise Wednesday: Best Christmas* Ever
First of all, this blog respects all writers, so if you don’t celebrate Christmas, then please substitute the gift-giving event of your choice. If you do, however, then Merry Christmas. For the rest of...
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Exercise Wednesday: The end of the world as we know it
The last day of 2014. No matter what, tomorrow will be different. The year will be different. If 2014 was the worst year of your life, tomorrow starts a new page–a blank 365-page book to be filled...
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Exercise Wednesday: Indian Lake
When I was a kid, we would often spend at least part of the summer in Indian Lake, NY–a village in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. When the song said that Indian Lake is the scene you should make...
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Exercise Wednesday: Out of context
Once, while I was on the jogging path, a couple people on bikes passed me–a man and a woman–just as the woman said, “Yeah, I’ve had to take the walk of shame.” If you’re unfamiliar with the walk of...
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Exercise Wednesday: I really did that
Last week, I toyed with the idea of including Walk of Shame by Pink in the post. Couldn’t do it, issue with the lyrics. But it got me thinking about Pink’s 2014 Grammy performance, one of the most...
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Exercise Wednesday: Blind
I was sick this week, so I did what all first-world sick people do in the 21st century: jumped on Netflix. This time, I watched The Rockford Files. In one of the episodes, Jim has to protect a blind...
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Exercise Wednesday: Hello darkness my old friend
Imagine, if you will, darkness. Not the typical darkness of nighttime in your bedroom, where the light still invades through the blinds, leaving a series of parallelograms across the floor and the bed....
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