Still writing my book. Sigh.

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Yes I am still writing my book, I know the story that I want to tell, I have the plot etched in my head and I know the characters and I have the locations where the action needs to take place. It seems that I have all the ingredients, then why is it so hard? I have gotten to writing at least 1,000 words a day except for weekends. Weekends are dedicated to being with my hubby since I don’t see him during the week. So on average I’m clocking in 3,000 to 5,000 words a week, not bad when I see it in black and white. But why does it feel like pulling teeth? Every morning, I spend time reading the news and afterwards, I spend at least an hour writing my little commentary on what I have read and what my thoughts are regarding political issues, these little tidbits flow out through my fingers without fail. I don’t agonize or feel apprehensive when I write those comments. When I sit down to work and write on my book, I feel anxious and exposed. It’s a little disconcerting. I write about myself all the time, I clue people into my political psyche whenever I write my comments, I answer Plinky prompts diligently each and everyday and I share my personal stories and feelings on the daily post. So why do I get all smeezled, I made that word up and I never do that, but that is what I feel like when I am writing my book, smeezled. What if I spend a few more months writing it and I finally finish it, do the harder work of editing it and then nothing. Is that what has me all smeezled? Maybe, I don’t know. I am not going to give up or stop, no matter how smeezled I feel. I like the word smeezled.

What kind of shopkeeper would you be?

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If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

April 11, 2012

Set Up Shop

French Pastry

I would call my shop “The Peasant’s Table” and I would sell baked goods such as Pain au chocolat, croissant, tarts and caramels and a whole other bunch of French pastries. It would be a lot of work, a little, no a lot of scary. Odds of success? Rare.

Supreme Court Justices Possibly Misunderstood Insurance Requirement In Health Care Case

I am not sure what the conservative Justices understand. As it stands now, many uninsured people are forced to use the hospital emergency rooms as their last resort because they can’t afford to otherwise. The greater majority indirectly pay for those uninsured people because our society deems it to be barbaric to turn sick people away even if they can’t pay. However, Justice Scalia chimed in with a gem of his own, when he said that perhaps as a society we need to rethink that policy, he seemed to make that leap in response to the need for the individual mandate as a trigger that would decrease the premiums as a result of many Americans, too poor to afford health insurance, using the emergency room as a last resort. I interpret Justice Scalia’s values as being that health care is a luxury and if you are too poor to afford it, then we as a society do not have the obligation or duty to help you at all. I think that Justice Scalia, in his statement, laid bare the true conservative belief in social Darwinian theory, survival of the fittest and government is here for the most “productive” and that is it. I am saddened at the fact that Justice Scalia is on the court for life and so is Justice Thomas. They are both impediments to any socially just interpretation of the Constitution.
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Allen West: I’ve ‘Heard’ 80 House Democrats Are Communist Party Members

This can’t be factual, I have to think that it was taken out of context and that West was being facetious, if only because the thought that our legislative body would be made up of people of such obtuse and paranoid thinking is chilling to the soul. Did someone neglect to inform West that we “won” the cold war, the Pope has visited Cuba, the Soviet Union is “dead” and that China is a very successful capitalist “Communist” country. He might want to know all that before he tries to spook his constituents with democrats as “commies” bedtime stories.
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Tennessee Evolution Bill Becomes Law After Governor Bill Haslam Declines To Act

I would hope that the science teachers in Tennessee schools would teach their students the scientific method before all else and employ that method when challenging scientific theory. What I really can’t wrap my head around is why is there a problem? If the parents are so concerned, why aren’t they sending their children to Sunday school where they can learn all about creationism and leave the science curriculum alone. Science itself welcomes critical and analytical thinking, two very important components of learning. I don’t think that anyone is arguing that children shouldn’t be exposed to multiple ideas about how we came about, but to reject science outright does more harm than good. The scientific method is critical to more advanced deductive reasoning, all children should have that taught to them, it behooves them to use that approach in everyday life. Make up their own minds. If my Catholic school saw fit to teach us evolution and science in science class and it was done by the nuns, I don’t see why there would be trouble now.
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