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Cooking For One: Identity Crisis - 2017 Edition
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This is not a cooking blog. Identity Crisis - 2017 Edition. Welcome to the first post for 2017! This would normally be the spot reserved for careful reflection of the year that passed and a healthy dose of misplaced optimism for the year ahead. I've done that all before and to be completely honest, you're going to get enough of that from other people. 2016 saw me accepting the fact that yes, I am a writer. I won't belabor the point here as I'm sure I said it better in other posts. So, one of the things t...
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Cooking For One: February 2016
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This is not a cooking blog. I Guess I Forgot. Sometimes I forget things. I forget my true purpose on this planet, in this lifetime. Multiple lives, multiple dimensions (death is an illusion; it's a transition, not an ending)- all that for another time (which is funny in itself). I don't know. Maybe someone is reading it and thinking Dude.this guy sucks. I can write better them him. And they do. OR someone says Wow.this is really good.I want to write like that! No Not so much. Did you make a kick ass dinn...
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Cooking For One: August 2016
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This is not a cooking blog. Failed relationships. Failed marriages. Strained and abandoned friendships. All fall out from this otherworldly possession. This dual existence isn't limited to just writers. I know musicians, photographers, filmmakers, all manner of creative types that feel this. Feel as though there is some higher purpose. Bringing something beautiful or different or unique in to this plane of existence. That may be normal. I tend to think that it isn't. This weekend, it is particularly at t...
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Cooking For One: January 2017
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This is not a cooking blog. It should be no secret by now if we're friends on Facebook that I have recently started listening to Taylor Swift on my daily commutes. I'm not sure if she's part mermaid* or what, but something about her voice keeps me from being annoyed by the other drivers on the road. Most of whom drive for shit. Seriously. I don't know what the fuck happened. I got in to the left lane to pass them. I looked up and gave the driver an exaggerated "What the Fuck? I was getting pissed. In the...
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Cooking For One: December 2015
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This is not a cooking blog. I Don't Own A Gun For Self Defense. This is becoming too common. Too fucking frighteningly common. And people will still be dead. Others will still be left with questions. Make THEM the story. The helpers. The first responders. People who tried to help. Not the killers. Not the politicians. Not the goddamned lobbyists. Stop giving those fuckers one second of air time. They don't deserve my attention. My interest. My ire. They don't deserve any of it. I stood dumbfounded in my ...
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Cooking For One: September 2015
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This is not a cooking blog. Out From the Center. The house was in shambles. Uniformed officers trolled through the rubble. The detectives hadn’t arrived on scene yet. There really wasn’t much for them to do at this point, other than to try to preserve the scene. The scene. The scene was fucked. The heat blew past the car before they even turned the corner. The neighboring buildings were miraculously untouched. 8220;What the fuck? Later the arson detectives and fire marshall would officially rule that the...
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Cooking For One: March 2016
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This is not a cooking blog. The Role Of The Roll. The weekend of epically awesome things continues. Today I drove north. Out of my little Uptown apartment and a little out of my comfort zone to attend a workshop in Ashland, Ohio. The workshop was hosted by a very talented group of writers and creatives that I met earlier this month, the North Central Ohio Writers (check out their Facebook page here. Character creation in the gaming system starts as a very mechanical process. Six major attributes are ...
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Cooking For One: January 2016
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This is not a cooking blog. To a very young child, 44 seems impossibly.well.old. And it might be. I'm finding, though, that as I age, what I used to consider old.well.isn't. I have friends in their thirties who tell me I'm old. Or worse yet, think that they are so old. I laugh. Because they're idiots. And they laugh too. Because they think I'm crazy for laughing. ButI concede.I may. Be starting to act. And I'm starting to say things I didn't really say before. Such as "the kids these days.". In my younge...
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Cooking For One: October 2016
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This is not a cooking blog. I was thinking about a clever title for this. Something involving a messenger with winged boots, but in the end, Sir Elton John's 1972 classic summed it up quite nicely. I briefly eluded to the saga of the Rocket back in a previous post (which can be found here. Sofast forward to about 3 three weeks ago. I was at a writing event at a friend's house. This friend collects typewriters and has been my sherpa. Guiding me through the jungle of thrift store finds and help...While the...
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