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Set Down This: Yes, but To Whom and For How Long?
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Wednesday, March 05, 2014. Yes, but To Whom and For How Long? Thus goes the punch line to the joke whose penultimate sentence is, "It's Lent! Just wrapping up 60 days of a nutrition/fitness/lifestyle challenge - is it time to take up another challenge of some sort for 40 more days? Posted by R. B. Patrascu. The Kidney Donation Blog.
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Set Down This: Friday Summary
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Friday, May 08, 2015. This is a blog post without great deep consideration or even careful editing - but because it is the end of a long and challenging week, and it is seven days since my last post, and for once my body woke up ready to write before 4:30am, I thought I would take a moment before leaving for work to post something.
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Set Down This: Death and Taxes
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Wednesday, April 08, 2015. I say "death and taxes" in the interest of not titling this post simply "Where I am in my life as of April 8th, 2015.". But the reality is that we filed our taxes weeks ago and have already had our returns deposited, which is lovely and helpful. So I have no new news on the taxes front. The Kidney Donation Blog.
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Set Down This: Stepping Up
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Saturday, August 09, 2014. I think the two primary reasons I feel discouraged. About blogging are the thought that nothing I have to say is all that important and the feeling that there is already so much noise. And that takes me right to an insecurity about my poetry, as well. Does the world really need one more mediocre poet? Author o...
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Set Down This: More Shameless Self-Promotion
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Thursday, June 04, 2015. I am so excited about my upcoming reading and book launch that I am busily posting it on my blogs, on my web site and in email to friends and supporters. Tuesday June 9th at 6:30 at the Novato Library:. I'll be reading as part of the Marin Poetry Center's Summer Traveling Show. Posted by R. B. Patrascu.
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Set Down This: New Month, New Post
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Saturday, February 01, 2014. New Month, New Post. So I did break my daily posting streak by a week and a half; however, rather than go back to fill in blanks I'm starting fresh again with the new month. But as I say, the daffodils are making an appearance. Posted by R. B. Patrascu. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Author of Before No...
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Set Down This: Sciatica and Recoveryr
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Friday, May 01, 2015. And paint the master bathroom. Instead, I found myself limited to whatever I could do while standing in one place while I contended with brutal sciatica. Somehow, perhaps due to several somehows. I had tweaked my back in more than one place and paid a heavy price for it for nearly two weeks. The Kidney Donation Blog.
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Set Down This: And Up Some More
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Sunday, August 17, 2014. And Up Some More. I have now sent the manuscript, cover art, author's photo, endorsements to date, etc. off to Finishing Line Press. For the work of putting Before Noon. In print. (check! Or of the pithy wisdom of Kay Ryan? Or the philosophy in Richard Wilbur? So my embracing of my identity as a Writer is progre...
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Set Down This: Confession
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An online journal and home for other scribblings. No promises of either profundity or profanity, no guarantee of grammatical correctness. Just me, as I am, at the moment. Tuesday, August 19, 2014. I broke down and cried tears of relief and gratitude today upon receiving encouragement and support from yet another poet whom I respect as a writer, a teacher and an all-around good human being. Something to what I'm trying to do, and I am. Moving along the right path. Posted by R. B. Patrascu. And Up Some More.
