Lynne Simpson

Some part of me still refuses to believe Obama won. So many BAD things have happened these last eight years that it’s like my brain can’t quite accept that I won’t have to change the channel every time the President of the United States is on TV. There was such a sense of wrongness about [...]

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Unlike many writers, I don’t have a muse. That’s just not the way my conscious mind relates to wherever-it-is my characters and my stories come from. To paraphrase something Jody said a few years back, if a muse ever showed up around here, I’d put her (or him) to work raking leaves or folding laundry! [...]

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There’s a saying amongst cyclists — to leave everything on the road. This means doing your absolute best and holding nothing back. Later, when the race is over, you won’t have to wonder if you did everything you could. You’ll know you left it all on the road.
Between now and the election, I’m using what’s [...]

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Much has been made this year of dog whistles in politics, so I recently did some research on how the term originated and what it means. According to Wikipedia, it was coined in Australia in the 90s to describe the Howard government’s technique of using coded words to secretly convey messages of support to racists, [...]

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I may have to buy the T-shirt for this:

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