What is something you often talk about but never get around doing?

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I used to talk about writing a book and writing in general. When I used to talk about it, I was rather flippant and more or less joked about writing. It often came up in conversation when I would be telling someone a traveling adventure that I had or I would describe an eating experience that impressed me greatly. My audience would say you should write about that or write a book and I would answer in the affirmative but without any real commitment.

As of January 1st 2011, I put my fingers to the keyboard and I have been writing something daily on WordPress.com and Huffington Post ever since. I have even completed the National Novel Writing challenge during the month of November which I am very excited about doing, it wasn’t easy and I am not finished. I wrote the first 50000 words, but my heroine is not done with her story as of yet, so I am still writing my first book.

When I used to just talk about writing, I had no idea that I would enjoy it do much. I might not be good at it but it has become a sort of therapy for me and I feel less anxious about life in general. I didn’t fully realize how much anxiety I was living with and my writing has become a tool for me in exorcising out all that anxiety.

Who Brings Out the Best in Me

Sam, German Sheperd Dog

My children bring out the best of me, as a mother I want to be the best that I can be for my two kids. My pets bring out the best of me as well, when dogs love you unconditionally, it just brings out the best of me because I want them to be as happy as they make me.

Dumb by Design: Gingrich’s Lobotomy of Congress and Today’s Dysfunction

I can’t remember his name but he blogs at the Huffpo and has written a book on shared lateral systems of power, economies and informatio­n and its applicatio­ns in our world. It stinks getting old, memory is the first to go, I digress. His insights are the perfect tools and lens to view the barely functionin­g power source that is our congress. His book was published before the OWS manifestat­ions but I think that the two go hand in hand, because the American occupy movements, the Spanish movements and the Arab spring are all social media driven and lateral informatio­n sharing systems. They are also, with the general assemblies and the spokes councils, adopting the lateral power sharing systems. This could truly be how we mutate our definition of governing in the future.
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Herman Cain ‘Reassessing’ 2012 Candidacy

Herman Cain has already impacted the race whether he stays or not because he has, with his 9-9-9 tax plan, pushed other candidates into the flat tax discussion­. I know that our tax code is complicate­d and the simplicity of Cain’s idea is vastly appealing but I would feel better if the discussion were held with more intelligen­ce and integrity with an eye for more fairness than just tax cuts for the so called “job creators”. We are dying here on the low rungs of the income ladder and it seems that all the sacrifices are falling on us. Our economy is more like drip down financial gains and deluge economic pain and sacrifice. We can’t afford the republican economic prescripti­on any longer.
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On Children

Baby Cake

Yes and I have two children, they are old children in relation to how young I feel. I should rephrase that, I am too young to have an adult child and an almost adult child.

What was the one thing that got away?

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I have a regret, I have written about it before. I should have gone to Turkey when I had the opportunity. It was 23 years ago during my backpacking adventure with my little sister through Europe. We had met up with 3 lovely Australians Jennifer, Natalie and Fionna in Italy and we 5 had a lovely time visiting Florence and Rome.

In Rome Jennifer, Fionna and Natalie ran into their 3 Canadian friends, John, Greg and Bill and they introduced us to them. When my sister and I parted ways with the girls to go off to Corfu, Greece I made tentative plans to meet up with the boys in Pelekas on Corfu. As it happened, my sister and I found the boys in Pelekas and we spent a blissful week on Corfu. On the way to Corfutown, the boys asked us to accompany them to Istanbul, Turkey. I was so tempted but my little sister really wanted to get back to the south of France so I declined the invitation.

I have regretted that decision especially after reading the illustrious history of Istanbul and its culinary delights. One of these days I will redress that regret.

Story about unusual structures in China.

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The Chinese government has decided to build a utopian society for their top brass in their communist party. In order to ensure that access is strictly monitored they have built a series of mazes around the area designated to be the utopian city. Those mazes are so well designed that unless you have the precise map, you are condemned to wander the maze in clueless despair forever.

 

Would you rather read minds or live forever?

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I do not want to read minds because I wouldn’t want just anyone to be able to read my mind. I think that privacy is losing it’s importance in our social network age and reading minds would be just another assault on our control over our private space.

Living forever is tempting but I’m reminded of a Greek myth where the Goddess of the Dawn fell in love with a mortal and she asked her father Zeus to grant him immortal life. He did so the human did live forever but immortality didn’t stop him from aging so he eventually withered into a cricket. I would want an immortal life only if I could stay at least my present day age, 44. I am not overly beset by aches and pains, ideally I would have liked the choice for immortality to have been offered when I was 35., that is a perfect age.

Winter Sports

I skied through a tunnel!

I like skiing though I am not good at it. Snowboarding is too challenging for my rusty bones. Right down the road our local ski area is only 10 minutes.

Does the end ever justify the means?

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I don’t believe so, because just the question itself, implies that the person is aware that the means will be wrong or hurtful. If the means were pure in spirit, no one would ever bother asking, does the end ever justify the means. As if it would be okay to do vile things as long as the end result is a good thing. How can you end up with a good result if on your way to that result the journey involves doing questionable acts?