Category: Random Musings
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple – Jack Kerouac
I had dinner with a dear friend the other night. Through no true fault of either of ours, it had been some time since we had caught up with each other. . . you know, life and all. After rehashing the last several years, she asked me when I was…
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~ Maya Angelou
I blew up my book today. I should explain that. It sounds like I doused it in lighter fluid and torched it ala Angela Basset, walking away triumphant that I slayed the beast. It wasn’t that at all, as fun as that sounds. There wasn’t a ceremonious Viking-esque funeral held…
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“Sometimes, the hardest things in life are what make you the strongest.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
I wanted to take a few days after my return from the Empire State Ride to collect my thoughts before I put them down here. Not because I needed the break, but more because I don’t know that I’ve fully processed what happened last week. I mean. . . I…
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There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. – Ernest Hemingway
“Why don’t you just go write? You’re not working. You have plenty of time.” So I was told by multiple people in varying ways over the course of the past 4 months. You see, I was/am one of the (now) fortunate souls who were advised by their employer that their…
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You Must Do the Things You Think You Cannot Do
This chalkboard sits in my office, above my Royal Typewriter and has for nearly 2 years now. When I put it up, I put aside my normal serial killer-esque scrawling for something a bit more polished. You could call the above a failure in that respect. (Hey, there are at…
N.K. Murray 