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  • The Universe Is Conspiring For Me This Time

    One of the carrots I dangled in front of myself during NaNoWriMo–besides the warm-fuzzy of self-discipline and focus–was that when I was done I could dive into Susan Wiggs‘ Lakeshore Christmas on my Kindle. Her books are always my go-to reading when I either need complete escape or total reward. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:32pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • That Bloody Gap Ad & The War On Christmas

    Number of comments: 10
    This is a blog post I should not be writing, but my brain needs to take a break. I have really had less than no patience with this whole War On Christmas business for the last couple of years. Over on Facebook I have gotten a slap dozen requests asking [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:45pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Kat O’ Nine Tales

    Number of comments: 4
    If I had to list my worst traits, right at the top of that long recounting you would see “poor self-discipline.” When I was a kid I was the sort of nerdy awful child who got As in school without trying. Until about sixth grade, when I started to hit [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:29pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • YIKES!

    Number of comments: 3
    It’s technically Thanksgiving when I write this, but I don’t want anyone to stumble on here and get mad at me for posting such self-serving weirdness (different from every other day how?) on the holiday, so I’m post-dating it. After the fiasco with Rapunzel’s off-putting photo from the other day I’m [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:55am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Love. Pure Book-Geek Love.

    I’ve been ripping on book trailers lately. Because they’re odd. Really. But this? This is a thing of unparalleled beauty. Check it out. Hat Tip: Gizmodo by way of my quasi-anonymous-on-the-web spouse. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:29pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Calvinism Forces Me To Think About Time Travel

    Number of comments: 2
    As I said on Twitter, I do my best thinking in the shower. But I usually take baths. Anyway, today I was in the shower and I was mulling over the one verse in the Bible that always gives me trouble when it comes to Calvinism. If you wanna read [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:23pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • It’s Not Like I’m Out Of Ideas. I’m Just Succumbing To Peer Pressure.

    Number of comments: 1
    Since I’m three thousand words behind on NaNo, this is going to be a quick post. I was going to write the standard ‘things I’m thankful for’ post, but in all reality if I started to list the things for which I am thankful it would be like that one [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:57am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Ooooh, Shiny!

    Number of comments: 7
    1. I called and reported the nurse. Now every time I go back I’m gonna get roundly abused. Oh well. 2. Yes, I’m supposed to be writing. And while this is writing, it’s not Writing writing. Eh. 3. Meet my lovely pet Rapunzel. (warning: She’s a [...] [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:02pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Random Things I Need To Get Off My Chest

    Number of comments: 6
    1. Jonathan Safron Foer can kiss my meat-fed butt. But I will give him credit for ONE thing. He has been able to artfully combine TWO types of people that make me wish I could still pull a trigger with ease. You know that post I just wrote about [...][...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:28am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Knocking Books Off Their High Horse

    Number of comments: 2
    If there’s one thing this month has taught me, it’s that I’ve spent too much of my life idolizing books. Not in the “Oh, I really like books” way, but in the “books are EVERYTHING to me” way that is the road to danger. Not only does the idolising of [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:44am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Jon And Kate; Ananias And Sapphira

    Number of comments: 1
    I’m still not sure if I’ve done the right thing posting this. I seldom if ever have second thoughts about what I write here. But if you read this once and come back to find it gone, I apologise. This is a hard issue for me to write about. A year [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:03pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Of All The Things To Forget…

    Number of comments: 6
    Lunch money. Early morning meetings. Extra #2 pencils for a test. Your grandmother’s birthday (November 17.) There are a ton of things I can imagine a person forgetting. I myself forget things a lot lately–just another happy side-effect of My Furry Little Problem. But seriously. I don’t mean to sound judgemental, [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:56am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Mama’s Got A Squeezebox: The Mammogram Controversy

    Number of comments: 5
    In what I have always considered one of the best uses of the blog medium, Rachel Walden maintains an excellent site dedicated to news and discussion about women’s health. This weekend she has a terrific roundup of writings about the Mammogram Controversy that I would consider a must-read for every [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:57pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Plan To Drive My Husband And Dog Insane

    In the past three days my productivity at writing has increased by about 300%. What is it? Caffeine? Drugs? No. It is a shareware program called Typewriter Keyboard. It makes my Mac sound EXACTLY like the old Corona electric I learned on. Enough so that whenever I have [...][...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:04pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Red Headed Step Child Foams At The Mouth

    It happened again. I signed up for something called “Nashville Almost Free” where they mail you cool coupons for local businesses. The catch seems to be that you get email on a daily basis advertising local businesses. Not too shabby, really. But then the company–Savvy Avenue–behind this project asked me to [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:22am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Social Media Ruined My Christmas

    Number of comments: 1
    I am married to a man for whom buying gifts is impossibly hard. His gifts are usually things we buy together so that he can make sure to get the exact right thing. This year I found something perfect for him. I friend of mine told about a book she was [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:41pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Jesus Didn’t Die For You

    Number of comments: 10
    I was drabbling down my Facebook feed, trying to see if people who weren’t drugged up and crippled are out there doing interesting things. (Answer: no.) I found this. “Youre a postmodern Christian if you wouldnt be surprised to see Ghandi in heaven but would be floored to find Jerry Falwell” [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:04am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • If It Isn’t Rough It Isn’t Fun

    Number of comments: 3
    I came down to my desk to work and blare The best non-Steinman album ever. (I saw someone on Sunday who is from Ashtabula, Ohio and ever since then I’ve had various lines rolling through my head) . That doesn’t explain why I’ve spent the last 20 minutes over on YouTube [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:34am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Katherine, Achilles And The Tortoise

    Number of comments: 1
    They may have been refuted by great minds to come later, but I still think the Paradoxes of Zeno are some of the most elegant ideas. My favourites are theTortoise and Achilles and it’s identical cousin, The Race. Both of them say that you can never finish the course because [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:24am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Why Should We Be Living By Your Agenda?

    Number of comments: 3
    I was skimming my news feed in Facebook just now and looked over into the sidebar. Right under the nagging ’suggestions’ (You haven’t talked to Dennis O’Brien on Facebook lately! Send him a message!) was an ad that read Obama asks moms to return to school. Finish your degree – Financial [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:58pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Did Jesus Have The Weirdest Torso Ever?

    Number of comments: 3
    The front and all interior doors in my house are what I’ve always called “six panel doors”; instead of being a flat sheet of wood or metal they have two square and four rectangular shapes debossed in them to give a more colonial feel. Supposedly they increase the resale value [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:51am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • STOP PROCRASTINATING

    Number of comments: 3
    I couldn’t sleep because of the evil Keeblers gnawing on my toes. It’s a bad day for feet. So I got up to work on my novel. That was an hour ago. I have: –answered two emails –bandied words in the Goodreads librarian forum. (Turns out that if you [...][...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:53pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Vroom-Vroom

    Today we bought tires and our thanksgiving turkey. God bless the fine people of CostCo, where both of those things were at a good price; priced low enough to buy us a thousand pounds of crackers, two hundred and fifty million batteries, some crab legs, some steaks and two hotdogs [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:36am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Am Authoring Mushrooms

    Number of comments: 2
    I am heartily loving National Novel Writing Month more than I ever thought I would. I know it’s been around forever, but I’m this year I’m finally ready for it. It’s a great inspiration to have scads of other people all going through the same motions, motivated by a belief [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:52am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Not Funny ‘haha’

    I just spent 9 minutes trying to get the cover back on my wireless mouse after I replaced the batteries. Just one of the twenty million things you never think about until you get arthritis. [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:33pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Does My Husband Still Live Here?

    Number of comments: 1
    This is the Sales Summit week at his job, and so he gets home late and exhausted every night. Which is cool with me, but I just realised now that I think I’ve seen him a grand total of three hours in four days. This must be what it’s like [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:23pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Am The Villain

    You know you’re doing something right when someone puts you into their story as one of the villains. Apparently I am lending my name and emotional likeness to some sort of space pirate hooker or whatever this person’s novel is about. And all because I made one of my usual [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:42am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Damned Keebler Elves

    Number of comments: 4
    Years ago some hospital made a video game for kids with cancer or some other disease. It was basically something like Space Invaders where the invaders were the disease and the kids got to picture themselves killing the cause of their illness. The researchers said the kids who played the [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:32pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Sorry. Just Had To Share.

    Number of comments: 2
    I don’t put my fiction on here, and more than likely never will. (If I ever put fiction in large chunks on the internet it will have its own blog so that I don’t have scope creep on this here site.) But I just really like this bit I wrote [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:14am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Did You Hear That It Was Some Muslim Dude?

    I was in the hospital for 8 hours today. My doctor was in surgery so the nurse–ever vigilant against lawsuits–sent me to the ER. When I was waiting to be seen the news broke about the Ft. Hood shooting. CNN called it ‘a major incident.’ Who uses the [...][...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:07am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • All The Letters Are My Babies, All The Sentences Are My Mark

    Number of comments: 3
    A week or so ago I learned something grave and disturbing about myself that I’m not quite ready to put into print. But it has definitely changed the world for me, in that I heard a door slam loudly. Even though I had mostly closed it myself it was still [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:04am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Tweedy Patches and Meerschaum Pipes

    Number of comments: 1
    I knew a guy who smoked a pipe in the breakroom at work when we were at the travel agency. It was a total affectation, but I kind of admired him for it. It was his way of saying “look, I’m an intellectual in a sea of normalcy.” And also [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:59pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Most Over-Exposed Pussy In Modern Day

    Number of comments: 1
    I just got done reading Flashforward, the book upon which the TV show was based. And it was awesome, the first truly unputdownable book I’ve had my hands on in weeks. I swore I’d bug everyone I know to read it, but settled with putting that here on my blog [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:57am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Last Night I Slept With A Celebrity

    Number of comments: 5
    Yes, I know I’m married. But I just couldn’t resist. I mean, you see a guy in a movie and something about seeing him on the big screen, bandying with a hot movie star makes him irresistable. Even to me, a woman who takes her wedding vows seriously. [...][...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:41am EST
    by Katherine Coble
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