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I wasn’t beeping at you. Really.
Perception. Have you ever pondered how often you have been the victim of false perception? Have you ever wondered how many times you thought ill of someone without just cause? Perception is such a tricky device. We wouldn’t know anything without it, but sometimes I think we barely know anything with it because it can…
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Cooking Pizza: My Internal Clock Somehow Related to Writing
I’m a pizza baker. I love baking pizza, and my family loves that I love baking pizza. I started learning to cook pizza back around 1995 when I was living in Vietnam. I was just starting to get interested in cooking and I, luckily, stumbled upon one shop in the port city of Haiphong which…
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Author Interview
Author Interview Check out the author’s interview I did with quietfurybooks.com. You can even win a free copy of my novel, BEAUTY RISING!
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The Car Wing Analogy
On my LONG ride home today in our car which overheated so often that we needed to go without the air conditioner for the last few hours, I was putting my hand out the window riding the waves of the wind like I used to do as a kid. As the wind whipped into the…
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Why bother being someone you’re not?
Why bother being someone you’re not? I spent a longtime not writing for a variety of reasons. First, I kept thinking if wasn’t as good as Hemmingway, so why bother? Another prevalent thought of mine was this: “If I can think of it and write about it, then why can’t everyone else?” What did I…
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Pounded by the Elements
Sometimes we forget the sheer force of nature. Today, for me, was a day to have my memory refreshed. Endless cyclical waves pushing in and out tossed me around like a twig – no small feat. The sneaky sun, coyly hiding itself behind a pale layer of clouds, still managed to nip my skin –…
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Two Ponds – A Desciption
I saw these this past summer. Hopefully, you can see them now: Two ponds. One sits upon an earthen, green meadow dam. The small embankment, steep and grassy, leads to a large oblong twin pond which spreads out tight and small before it balloons into a vast dark expanse surrounded by overgrowth and serenaded by…
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Spy Blue: A Novella for Free
Pick up our spy thriller for FREE this week on Wed, Thurs, or Sunday. Enjoy and tell a friend.http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Blue-A-Novella-ebook/dp/B004N62MDA/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1355918790&sr=1-2
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The sun waved goodbye
The sun waved goodbye, calmly and slowly as it tucked its head below the treeline, cleverly peeking through beneath the tufts of leaves which rose from the forest like the oval white puff balls from a bumper crop of cotton – ready to be plucked and sewn into a comfortable twill, that would sit snugly…
Author Mark W Sasse 