Category: Random Thoughts
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I’d host a dinner for every person I ever dated, slept with, married, or just blatantly used for sex. Seriously, it’d be so much fun to learn how much (or little) they all had in common. I’d like the 3-5 year veterans to direct the 2-8 month “tweeners.” I’d like them to organize and present…
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Love is like sending a slinky down a spiral staircase at times.
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Recently, a close friend’s family hit a patch of unexpected unemployment. She has spent the week in a funk, nervous about paying bills, nervous about making rent. She is a very good friend and I have helped her out in the past. She resents this, however, because she thinks of it as accepting charity I…
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Most authors giving advice on how to become successful as writers will touch upon the basics of getting on as many social media platforms as you can find and constantly networking. Myself, I admit that I feel ridiculous getting on Twitter or Instagram at least three times a day to beg people to like and…
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Creative minds really seem to upset the status quo. My favorite note from managers or bosses who have fired me is “you are not a team player.” My response has usually been “Nobody on this team is winning and they all resent the team captain for being a idiot and an asshole.” Politicians have no…
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I was 14 when I decided I wanted to write detective fiction. At age 10 I read my first Agatha Christie and by 14 I was up to my eyeballs in Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, and Jim Thompson dime novels. There was something entrancing about the poetry of noir. Men with shabby…
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What’s your definition of romantic? Romance can be so many things that it is hard to nail down just one definition in my mind. In my heart, I know the feeling of romance involves a kind of good-natured and thoughtful manipulation. Unexpected gifts, little encouragements, warm touches, notes that sneak into briefcases or pockets of…
J.W. Anitole 