Barbara J. Hamby

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That Little Black Cloud

Those of us who remember Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip can recall one of his characters, who traveled with a black cloud above his head. His name was Joe Btsflpk (or something similar) and he would not have had any luck at all except for bad luck.

Every once in a while I have a day like… click here to continue

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February, 13th, 2005

Dreary Saturday

A dreary Saturday, bringing news of similar weather in Southern California, also. My sister just emailed the forecast for the week. Bad weather this weekend, a few good days, and more storms coming in on Thursday, the day we arrive there.

Yesterday a fat robin visited the brightly berried bush outside my office window. He (or she) and… click here to continue

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February, 12th, 2005

Blank Spaces

A few years ago I took a writing workshop at Yachats from a columnist at The Oregonian. I loved her humorous column, but decided I didn’t want to take on deadlines and have to stare at a blank page and produce on demand.

So now I’m asking myself why, this late in retirement, I’ve set up a blog… click here to continue

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February, 11th, 2005

Chicken Soup

I just finished reading Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul. My daughter and son-in-law gave it to me several years ago and I never got around to reading all of it. Some of the Chicken Soup books, I thought, were a little too goody-goody and happy ever after for me. However, I think the version for writers could be very… click here to continue

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February, 11th, 2005

Writing

Writing class was extremely enjoyable this afternoon. There was enough time for all of us to share a bit of our writing and critique each other’s work. Our instructor critiques also, and will write a one-sentence comment on each contribution.

A poem I wrote a month ago was discussed and good feedback given to a question I had… click here to continue

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February, 09th, 2005

Sorting Out My Life

Part of the purpose of all the sorting I’ve been doing, is to gather information for my memoirs. I knew I had saved at least one of my old resumes, but couldn’t find the file. Today I stumbled on a file titled “Kudos, Resumes, and Employment Records.” How conceited is that?

When I start destroying papers in anticipation… click here to continue

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February, 08th, 2005

Computer Maintenance and Reminiscing

As I may have mentioned before I’m lucky to have my son as my webmaster and my son-in-law as my computer consultant. Richard came over today and shot down the nasty little virus-infected files that turned up in my desktop. While he was deleting them, two new virus-infected files were planted, but this time my anti-virus software killed them automatically.… click here to continue

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February, 07th, 2005

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