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Thoughts & Sayings (December 2013)

Here are some thoughts and sayings I posted on Twitter and/or Facebook in October and November. To my knowledge, I made these up (for better or for worse). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the write!

Encouraging Words

1. Sitting can be a big pain in the butt.

2. Past performance never returns.

3. Sometimes life is two steps sideways.

Twisted Words

4. A flying saucer landed in front of me. On it was a cup of coffee.

5. You have to go to bed because it won’t come to you.

In Its Own Write

6. It looks like I’ve come down with a case of NaNoWriMo.

Holidays & Events

7. I’m going to need a holiday from all these holidays.

8. Turkey is so fulfilling that I’m absolutely stuffed.

Random Musings

9. Stubbornness is an equal and opposite force.

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Thoughts & Sayings (October 2013)

Here are some thoughts and sayings I posted on Twitter and/or Facebook in July, August, and September. To my knowledge, I made these up (for better or for worse). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the write!

Encouraging Words

1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Fermented, and they’ll drink with you all day.

2. I have some words of wisdom to share with you. Excuse me while I take them out of Pandora’s box.

Twisted Words

3. It’s harder to herd kids than goats.

4. A sacred cow cows a scared cow.

In Its Own Write

5. Fiction writing is the novelist concept.

6. Poetry may set you free but to make it rhyme takes time.

Holidays & Events

7. Today is Outdependence Day for those who don’t celebrate the 4^th of July.

Random Musings

8. We interrupt this report about yelling fire in a crowded theater for breaking news about a fire in a crowded theater.

9. “Because I can,” said the man when asked why he works at a packaging plant.

10. “What’s so great about sliced bread?” asked the baker.

11. Out of the mouths of babes comes drool.

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Images courtesy of Microsoft.

Remembering Diplomats on Memorial Day

“Remembering the Diplomats on Memorial Day,” a piece I wrote last year. This is dedicated to the Foreign Service officers we lost in the past year – Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, and Anne Smedinghoff. This year, please remember the diplomats and all civilians who serve their country on the front lines of freedom.