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  Guest Blogger Jock Stewart Discounts Resolutions

  Have you noticed? Folks are slobbering all over themselves writing self-aggrandizing new year's resolutions designed to make them look politically correct and or something other than schmucks.A guy on…

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  Malcolm I bought a 55-gallon drum of egg nog (rum included) this morning for new year's eve. My old scout master always said, "Be Prepared."

• December 29th, 2009
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  Malcolm "A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours." -- Milton Berle.

• December 28th, 2009
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  Malcolm Got home from the museum last night about 2 a.m. This is getting tiring, but we got a lot done for this week's press preview visits.

• December 27th, 2009
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  Looking Back over 2009

  As the year ends, I'm saddened by the Christmas morning death of my wife's favorite Aunt at 79 in Rome, Georgia, after a long illness. It will take a while for our loss to dawn on us full forc…

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  A death on Christmas morning

  When we reached my wife Lesa's parent's house in northeast Georgia on Christmas Day, we learned that Lesa's favorite aunt Hazel died earlier that morning. After a year filled with health problems, she…

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  Malcolm We got a lot done yesterday afternoon and evening in the Crawford Long Museum's main gallery from cleaning (we have no janitorial service) to setting up the vitrines with personal and medical memorabilia.

• December 26th, 2009
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  Malcolm “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.” — Rabindranath Tagore. Lesa and I are missing her aunt who died Christmas morning.

• December 25th, 2009
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  Malcolm Merry Christmas.

• December 24th, 2009
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  The Complete Booker 2010 Challenge

  I've been planning to read some of the Booker winners for years. But I get derailed by other books that spring out of the woodwork.As a little incentive, I signed up for the challenge this year. I pla…

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  Malcolm Jack Bauer and I are going to "interogate" Santa tonight and learn why he didn't bring me that brand new bike 50 years ago.

• December 23rd, 2009
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  I miss Christmas letters

  I never thought I'd say that. Christmas letters have, in many circles, been a joke. In the 1960s, we said, "how ESTABLISHMENT can you be." Later, the joke was more about the stuff that never made it i…

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  Malcolm After wrapping my wife's Christmas presents, I stepped back and could only conclude that somebody with poor motor skills and a couple of drinks did it.

• December 22nd, 2009
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  Malcolm "I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." -- Andrew Wyeth.

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  Malcolm In spite of the chili and doritos I had for dinner over the weekend, the Doc says my blood pressure is just fine. I had a sausage biscuit on the way home to celebrate.

• December 21st, 2009
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  Malcolm "Humor is just another defense against the universe." -- Mel Brooks.

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  Some days, there\'s just no fuel in the tank

  Does this happen to you?You sit down at your desk, turn on the PC, and finally you have some free time for your writing. Yet, you have nothing to say. I'm not talking about writer's block here…

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  Malcolm Rite-Aid was out of Whitman's Sampler this morning. Oh no, what am I going to tell my wife on Christmas day when there's no candy?

• December 20th, 2009
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  What to do about Christmas

  Recently, a writer said in her newsletter that as the holidays arrive, writers don't need to get tangled up in feelings of chaos and limbo. The point was, those with full time jobs (working for somebo…

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  Malcolm Even though I've proofread a 4,000+ word article a dozen times, the editor is still going to find 1000000000 obvious errors in it. This happens because the federal government requires editors to have grammar and spelling microchips implanted in th

• December 19th, 2009
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  Malcolm Sunny weather, the Christmas cards are out, a prospective anthology manuscript it almost done, the cats aren't tearing anything up--what more could a guy want?

• December 18th, 2009
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  Malcolm Once again, we're going to have to haul in the usual suspects and find out who sent us the cold rain.

• December 17th, 2009
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  Malcolm A great group of volunteers came out to the Crawford W. Long Museum to help with some of the 1000 details from putting up signs and shades to polishing old anesthesia machines and antique medicine bottles.

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  Malcolm Okay, only 10000000000 more Christmas cards to mail. If you don't get one, it means you're on the naughty list and/or that I ran out of stamps.

• December 16th, 2009
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  Malcolm Dentist appointment today. Yawn...

• December 15th, 2009
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  Malcolm The outside lights are up, ready to wrinkle like glorious stars at the first hint of dusk. Soon, the rising power bill will remind us that it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

• December 14th, 2009
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  Malcolm Nothing starts a week off better than a city council meeting that begins at 6 pm and ends after 9 pm. I thought it was going to be slower than Christmas.

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  Malcolm Foggy morning at 50 degrees. No visible ants in the kitchen for once.

• December 13th, 2009
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  Malcolm "Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals." -- Agnes Repplier.

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  Malcolm Continuing rain.

• December 12th, 2009
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  Malcolm More rain.

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  The Infinite Vistion Quest

  The photograph displayed at the top of this weblog is Chief Mountain on the eastern edge of Montana's Glacier National Park. The land in the foreground is that of the Blackfeet Nation, specifically th…

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  Malcolm Out and back to the grocery store before the Saturday frenzy of unwashed shoppers begins.

• December 11th, 2009
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  TrickFalls has posted a new entry on: Writer's Notebook

  

  Frivolous Friday

  No, Frivolous Friday is not a new meme, challenge or competition. It's my current frame of mind.After fighting ants in kitchen cabinets and one of the bedrooms all day, I'm ready to sit back w…

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  Malcolm Breaking news: ants really like Triscuits and Wheat Thins stored in the kitchen cabinet.

• December 10th, 2009
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  Malcolm "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." -- Franz Kafka.

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  Malcolm I'm wondering if I'll ever finish "2666." I think the title is the number of hours it takes to read the book.

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  Writing: The Place is More Than Scenery

  “The breakout novelist does not merely set a scene; she unveils a unique place, one resonant with a sense of time, woven through with social threads and full of destinies the universe has in store f…

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• December 9th, 2009
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  Malcolm "A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika." -- Dorothy Parker.

• December 8th, 2009
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  Malcolm "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." -- Marianne Williamson in "Return to Love."

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  Tuesday Teaser: \'When Mermaids Sing\'

  "With her elbows out, and the white dress below, she reminds me of a swan stretching her wings. When she stands back, the dress falls to the ground and looks like a white puddle around her ankles."…

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• December 7th, 2009
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  Malcolm My strangest job: Delivering telegrams for Western Union on my bike on Saturdays, Sundays and after school on weekdays. Some people burst outside when they saw me, expecting good news; others peeked out through the curtains when they thought it wa

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  Malcolm Wow, I just got an e-mail telling me somebody I've never heard of in Liberia wants to give me $100000000000000. What an honor.

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  First Look: \'A View Inside Glacier National Park\'

  My copy of "A View Inside Glacier National Park: 100 Years, 100 Stories" arrived in today's mail. What a treasure trove of personal recollections Kassandra Hardy and the park's 2010…

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  Malcolm "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. " -- Edgar Allan Poe.

• December 6th, 2009
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  Jefferson\'s Christmas Parade

  I enjoyed being one of seven grand marshals in Jefferson's annual Christmas parade on Saturday. Our Main Street manager--who set up the parade--picked authors to lead the parade to go along with the "…

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  Malcolm Busy shopping this morning while everyone else is asleep: a box of books about Glacier for Lesa, a new Jaguar for Freya, Scotch for Mary, Dodgers memorabilia for Barry, a cheese basket for Doug. Okay, I know it sounds like I was shopping for mysel

• December 5th, 2009
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  Malcolm Looks like we'll have good weather for today's Christmas parade.

• December 4th, 2009
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  Malcolm Antidote to Sun-Maid Girl Controversy: "Wise women have natural immunity. They let everything ebb and flow, without work. They let go of expectations and they are never at a loss. Because they are never at a loss, their spirits live forever." -- P

• December 3rd, 2009
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  Malcolm "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." -- Salvador Dali.