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the tale of the mustachioed man

part four Last time, I had said that I would post one more installment in this tale, but, since then, I changed my mind. I decided to break this into two parts, just because a blog post with ten images could be a bit long and unwieldy. So, for this installment, I have six drawings, […]

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How about some pumpkinations??

So… I know that pumpkinations isn’t actually a word, but I decided to do a Lewis Carroll sort of thing and invent a word. Some of the words that Lewis Carroll invented include: chortle, frabjous, frumious, bandersnatch, snark, boojum, galumph, mimsy. They are fun words, as well as being funny. I wonder which of them

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Fun creative writing exercise

Today, I decided to model a creative writing exercise, designed to combat the infamouse writer’s block. So, I used a random word generator to come up with eight disparate words. Here are my words: entice, bribe, soothe, tawdry, furious, ice-cream, glasses, cake In this exercise, there will be a time limit of about 10 to

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The tale of the mustachioed man

Part three  Wolf felt cold and apprehensive. “I will go and look for my bear friend. He might be named Bearnacle now. I will leave in the morning.” “Please be careful. It’s very dangerous,” said Wolf’s mother. Just then, a cold wind blew fiercely, and mother and son went into the house. Wolf fell into

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Sunday at the historical society

I went to today’s open house at the Grand Island Historical Society’s museum in Beaver Island State Park, It started out as a warm and windy day, but, by late afternoon, the rain was coming down pretty hard. Fortunately, almost my entire time at the historical society’s museum, River Lea, was relatively dry. Victorian mourning

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