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Sunday Scribblings – The inner guide dunnit

June 17, 2008by Miss Alister 14 Comments

Attorney Eron Psykhe, foreground, and client Gene Daimon   New York, NY (MAP) June 16, 2008 – Just when you thought things couldn’t get stranger, materialism meets myth, corporate disaster meets […]

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Sunday Scribblings – A letter a night

June 7, 2008by Miss Alister 24 Comments

    8:12pm.  Another long day.  We begin to shut the place down, retrieve the odd voice mail message, take stock of last minute thoughts, and write all of it […]

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apsaras, life, muses, quest for light, Sunday Scribblings, valkyries

Sunday Scribblings: Mind curve – Remembering the future

June 1, 2008by Miss Alister 11 Comments

    I hate my job and I hate that I’m not doing anything about it.  I feel so wimpy, so ineffective.  I’m just dying and watching myself die, just […]

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Sunday Scribblings – Out on a curve

June 1, 2008by Miss Alister 15 Comments

Have you noticed the windows in the mornings, cobwebs pressed flat on the glass and the screens, bugs flying tired, trapped overnight in between?   Have you noticed when the […]

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Sunday Scribblings – Interview with a quitter

May 25, 2008by Miss Alister 19 Comments

  Arguably one of the most renowned professional Quitters in the biz, Ron Parquetta finally agreed to meet with me for an interview.  This took some doing.  It’s no secret […]

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Sunday Scribblings #111 – Prompt: Soar/Sore

May 18, 2008by Miss Alister 17 Comments

    Time was speeding, snowballing, she noticed.  She noticed the thick black eyeliner was getting thicker and blacker, the beehive bigger and taller, the tattoos bolder in their statements, to […]

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Sunday Scribblings – Otherworldly bad news

March 30, 2008by Miss Alister 13 Comments

“Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.” Aldous Huxley Hmmm…let’s see what’s been going on here on Earth in the last 12 hours…  Police: Five dead in plane crash south of London A small […]

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Sunday Scribblings – The smorgasbord challenge

March 18, 2008by Miss Alister 9 Comments

This is a test.  This writer is conducting a test involving all 102 Sunday Scribblings prompts.  This is only a test…  The bed is up there, I am down here.  […]

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Sunday Scribblings – Our time on Earth

March 2, 2008by Miss Alister 18 Comments

What if we are right here right now existing as time travelers?  Nothing says we have to strap ourselves into a spacecraft and rocket into deep space at half the […]

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Sunday Scribblings – A passion for admiration

February 24, 2008by Miss Alister 14 Comments

Joseph Addison, a 17th century essayist and poet, said, “Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with […]

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dead poets society, life, Sunday Scribblings

Sunday Scribblings – The sleep machine

February 16, 2008by Miss Alister 7 Comments

When I read this quote from Henry Ward Beecher, “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is […]

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