Iced Coffee Illusion or: 7-11, how could you? Yesterday I forgot my insulated cup for my tasty ‘coffee chiller’ at 7-11. I was despondent since I don’t want to pay $1.49 for a medium, when I can pay that and get a refill in my large insulated, dedicated chiller coffee cup. The sadness lasted until […]
Read More Iced Coffee IllusionFor me, the best, truest part of Memorial Day doesn’t come on Memorial Day, or on the weekend we celebrate it: it comes the week after, and it really isn’t so much a Memorial Day thing as a Veterans Day thing. Whatever you call it, it reminds me of what is important. Today was the […]
Read More Memorial DayI don’t know about you, but I love watching DVD extras. I love the behind the scenes features where you get a glimpse into what went into the production and I love bloopers. I love to see a before and after when special effects are added, and the details that go into the effects. This […]
Read More Anatomy of an editI wrote my first flash fiction yesterday, and it was oddly more challenging that I’d expected. There are the standard concerns: will I be able to come up with something for a prompt and have it ready to post within 24 hours; I’m posting in front of strangers, who are reading for the flash, not […]
Read More Writing my first flash fiction(This poem is dedicated to a friend who lost someone they loved, and never got to tell them, and to all my friends and loved ones, old, new and yet to come.) This dance, this madcap dance. We move like planets in orbit around the sun, We touch like leaves swaying in the breeze never […]
Read More This Dance (a poem by M.T. Decker)I used to like yard sales, a lot. I loved going through things and finding lost treasures; getting a good deal. And then I grew older, and more to the point I joined the Reserves (not the Military Reserves, but the Deputy Sheriff’s Reserves.) Then I saw the traffic hazards. Then I saw people parking randomly […]
Read More Things I used to likeI could never get the laugh right. I mean, I’ve tried. Who hasn’t? But I’m never sure if it’s Bwahaha or Mwahahah… and it usually comes out as more of a chortle than an actual laugh. Heck, the very idea of an ‘evil laugh’ makes me giggle, and giggling just isn’t evil. There’s too much […]
Read More Why I will never make it as a villian.Whenever I hear the old adage:”Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach,” I get annoyed. I admit, while I have had teachers who didn’t know what they were talking about, the truth in this statement, as I see it, is that it reflects more on the person making the statement than on teachers. Truth […]
Read More Teaching, an alternative way of learningWriting is a funny thing. I started a post on inspiration and halfway through I realized, I was writing about style… so, a quick subject change and we’re off. They say we are the sum of our experiences, but I hadn’t realized… just how that adage is reflected in my writing. There are the things that you […]
Read More A question of StyleInsomnia, when you’re single, is easy. You aren’t going to wake anyone up, and you can always sleep in. You’re not going to throw anyone’s schedule off and you don’t have to worry about anybody but you: a few phone calls and everything is covered. When you’re married… (or living with someone) especially if children […]
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