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A Tour of the Lonesome Lawmen Settings

Clear back in 1999, I wrote a book called The Last Enemy. For reasons I have blogged about previously, it was set in and around the Denver, Colorado area. So I thought it might be fun to take a little tour of the area. The Colorado town of Estes Park is a basecamp for the…

What’s Your Reality…Show?

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I was watching Project Runway the other day and couldn’t help thinking, wow, it takes a lot of guts to do that, to compete like that. People who go on reality shows really put themselves out there. They get harsh criticism and have their mistakes on display for the world to see. It is hard…

After You Finish Blues

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The first of the month, while struggling into a girdle for a friend’s wedding, I found myself mulling middles (cause mine was seriously giving me trouble right then). This somehow lead me to mull starting and finishing. Last week I was sure I was finished when I wrote a blog post on finishing, but wrapping…

What I Never Knew about Getting Older…

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When I was rolling up on my fiftieth birthday, someone said to me, “Isn’t fifty the new forty?” I shook my head. “It’s pretty much the same old fifty. Not much new about it.” Even with plastic surgery, science and eating a miserably healthy diet, we all still get older. Those birthdays roll around, whether…

Pauline Baird Jones: Barbarians and Tap Dancing?

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When I noticed on Pinterest that a lot of bare-chested guys were getting re-pinned, I asked the hubs if he could help me out. And he did. Isn’t he great? LOL Okay, now that I’ve got your attention, I’ll get to what this blog is really about. Tap dancing. And ballet and tumbling. But mostly…

Dancing With Fear

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My blog post about the book Becoming a Writer, called Daring to Act on Your Dreams sparked a small, comments discussion about fear, that prompted me to recall a wonderful essay on the subject called “Fear, I Embrace You” by Louise Plummer. (Thoughts of a Grasshopper, p. 71) I can’t recall when I first read this essay.…