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{ Monthly Archives } February 2012

Ingredients for Salsa

Last Saturday night, I went salsa dancing. There also played bachata and merengue, and I step-step-step-not-step-step-step-step-not-stepped or side-hip-side-hipped a little to all the above. It was my second time salsa dancing, ever. The first time had been my friend M’s salsa group’s holiday fete in December. Saturday she was performing with her group that night [...]

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“Oh, how cute! What should we name it?”

Copy out of your draft a sentence that could serve as a title. Write a sentence that’s not in the draft to use as a title. Write a title that is a question beginning with What, Who, When or Where. Writing at title that is a question beginning with How or Why. Write a title [...]

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A Well-Researched Adventure

My latest adventure was carefully planned, in advance, and vetted by experts who were board-certified in that sort of thing: I had two of my wisdom teeth removed. This was, without a doubt, my most heavily researched and well-planned endeavor. The only hitch was when the oral surgeon’s scheduling system cancelled me after my 24-hour [...]