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S’mores? What are they good for?

Today, June 20th, is the first day of summer so happy Solstice. Because it is a leap year, it doesn’t fall on June 21, which was my grandmother’s birthday, but I digress. Since it is now officially summer, the activities … Continue reading

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Story of Shards: 99-word flash

Story of Shards A favorite author of mine, Jennifer Estep, writes fantasy fiction for teens and adults. I actually stumbled upon her writing when I won a copy of her YA novel, Dark Frost from her Mythos Academy series. Once … Continue reading

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The Journey of a Thousand Miles…

starts with a single step, but this pedometer geek has been slacking. The thousand mile goal has been met for the year, but… This slacking pedometer geek hasn’t posted statistics on books or walking for the past three months. Just … Continue reading

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What-the-Tuck: Two New Trends

This pedometer geek reader has recently identified what could be new What-the-tuck trends in novels. Because of the predominance of repeated use of particular words and phrases, there are two that I have added to my growing list. The first … Continue reading

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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men…

…gang aft agley. Borrowing the line from Robert Burns’ poem ‘To a Mouse’ just about sums up this pedometer geek’s goal to complete the thousand miles by the end of August. On August 22nd, plans were derailed when this pedometer … Continue reading

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The Journey of a Thousand Miles (July)

…begins with a single step. In July, this pedometer geek logged 328,088 steps on the Fitbit. This may be the highest single month total since I first began keeping track on spreadsheets (although I will admit that I didn’t check). … Continue reading

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The Journey of a 1000 miles…(June ’18)

…begins with a single step. In June, this pedometer geek added 119 miles to the total of the goal of a thousand miles.  Since ahead of last year’s goal of walking a thousand miles, this pedometer geek/urban hiker plans on … Continue reading

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The Journey of a Thousand Miles (May)

…begins with a single step. Like last year, this pedometer geek is working towards a goal of walking a thousand miles, but in a shorter amount of time. A friend in Great Britain was working toward that same goal to … Continue reading

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The Journey of a Thousand Miles… (April)

…begins with a single step. This pedometer geek was not slacking towards the thousand mile goal although slacking is definitely seen in regards to this post about April’s steps and reads. It is now June and other things have gotten … Continue reading

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A Journey of a Thousand Miles… (February 2018 edition)

…begins with a single step. Working toward logging another thousand miles during the year (and with the hope of completing the goal earlier than last year), this pedometer geek logged nearly 106 miles in February, leaving about 763 miles left … Continue reading

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