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Short Answers about yours truly

1. What is one thing you can’t live without? One thing? One thing, really? Love. Everybody lives for that. If…
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Pep Talk from The Replacements

So my son has a track meet today (districts) ~ big deal yadda yadda. I don’t write often about my family here because; well,…
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You’d think I’d learn to write screenplays

I’m dangerous now! I just figured out how to embed videos ~ watch out!!!! Movies inspire me in my writing….
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Books are adventure…

“Books are adventure. They contain murder and mayhem and passion. They love anyone who opens them.” everything-relatable: Want more personal?

Inspires my character, Tally, in reflection

So many things to love about this photograph. It inspires Tally in my novel, This Much Is True (the current…
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Love & Other Drugs – favorite scene from this film

“I’m gonna need you more than you need me.” “That’s okay.” from Love and Other Drugs! LOVE this film! Love…
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"You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks.
Now, I’m curious. She hasn’t spoken for the last ten minutes of the drive. “What?”
“Too much air blows out the fire. Too much water destroys it.”
I nod trying to determine what she’s really comparing us to. “The idea would be to keep the flame going, right. For years?” She nods. “Like a relationship. Like a marriage.” She cringes at the word marriage. Noted. “So you need the air—to stay constant—to fan the flames of the fire, and you know, grasshopper,” I smile at her and catch sight of the corners of her mouth turning slightly upward in response to the endearment, “a hot enough fire will burn water, so you have to be careful with the water too.”
“That I do know,” she says softly. “So that’s the truth about air and water.” She sighs deep.
“Which is?”
“It’s hard to maintain the balance to keep the fire going. You have to fan the flames without putting it out with too much water. But too little water will burn the fire right up. Too much fire. Too much destruction. We’re out of control.”
“You’re talking in circles,” I say.
“No. That’s us,” she says with certainty."— Katherine Owen

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