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Day 10: Top 5 Comedic Fiction Novels I’ve Read
Perhaps some of you don’t know that over the last several years I have really been taken to reading and really have accepted 2 genres as my chosen genres to read. 1) Sci Fi and 2) comedic fiction. I guess a third would be biographies or memoirs. And then 4th poetry. I also have developed…
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Day 8: Song of Songs Chapter 2: Lillies Galore
Today we have round 2 of walking through Song of Solomon. Day 8 of blogging. I’ll admit it is more of a challenge than I thought. But some days writing is simply discipline. Break out the book and song and lets go for a quick walk. V. 1 she compares herself to a flower. Whenever…
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Day 7: Excerpt from “The After Light”
Good Morning! Today I am sharing an excerpt from a story I wrote about lightning bugs. This is an intermission where the main antagonist Whinegard the Worm of the Illumi-Naughty interrupts the story to explain why he is trying to erase Lightning Bugs from existence. Enjoy! Chapter 6 ½: An Illumi-Naughty Intermission Brought to You…
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Day 6: A Talk With My Father We Never Had (Audio Reading)
The only time we ever talked about love Was the month following my heartbreak Around Thanksgiving of my 24th year. I did not think I could keep going quietly, honestly And you did not have much advice to give. In the wake of that winter you visited once And I had very little left to…
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Day 5: Top 5 Hiking Moments
So it’s November 5th which means it’s my best friend Brian Lane’s birthday. He’s turning 70. And since one of the other things I’m doing this month is sharing top 5 lists from the last decade, I figured what better way to start my top 5’s off with hiking trips since all of my top…
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Day 4: Excerpt from The Cheesebringer
One of the things I’m doing over the next month is sharing excerpts from long form writings I have written that I hope to one day potentially publish. There will be 4 more posts like this so if you see the word excerpt, it is going to be from something I have written that is…
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Day 3: Song of Songs Chapter 1: Just a Couple of Kids Making Out in The Grass
I’ve debated what I want this to be. Do I want to write a commentary on the Song of Songs or do I want to do a walk through stream of consciousness as it hits me? Without giving too much of a lesson on the Song of Songs, I have read it over a dozen…
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Tony
My dad Anthony (Tony) Louis Passaro Jr. was born on August 23, 1950 over a month premature. He was the only child of my grandmother Mary and grandfather Anthony L Passaro Sr. My grandma had several prior miscarriages before the birth of her only child. From the little I know of his birth, I know…
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My Father, the Hero
About 6 years ago, at Pennington Assembly of God, members of the staff recorded videos of our fathers listening to us answering questions about what it was like to be raised and loved by our dads and the instances in which we as sons did things that were unbecoming of the fearfully wonderful men we…
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A Few Tender Words to You, as if You were Me
Hello friend, I don’t know what you might be carrying lately. I also don’t know if what you are carrying is much heavier or signicantly lighter than you are imagining. I don’t know even know if your indecision is the product of you not actually knowing or if you feel so trapped where you are…
The Long Rebuild
The Reconstructed 