01/21/2019 – Pisaries Creator

Flash Fiction: Cut from a Different Rock

01/21/2019

Flash Fiction

I took my time, but when I got to the top, it was a sight to see. I had climbed for three hours without any breaks. I took a few pictures when I noticed movement up ahead. I lowered my camera and that is when I saw something hiding behind a rock formation. It didn’t
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Book Recommendation: Get Your Brain in the Fast Lane

01/21/2019

Book Recommendations

Publication Date: October 19, 2006 (first edition) Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Page Number: 224 This book is a little different from the rest sitting on my shelves. It is basically a book that will stimulate your brain. It has two different exercise levels, and most are fairly easy to do. It focuses on memory, language, attention
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Book Recommendation: The Road

01/21/2019

Book Recommendations

Publication Date: March 28, 2006 Publisher: Vintage Books Page Number: 287 I’ve read the book and saw the movie adaptation with Viggo Mortensen as Man and Kodi Smit-McPhee as Boy. The Road was a quick read about the journey of a father and his son in post-apocalyptic America. Without adequate resources and a car, they
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Book Recommendation: The Secret War Against the Jews

01/21/2019

Book Recommendations

Publication Date: April 15, 1997 Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Page Number: 672 Get out your reading glasses and a large glass of wine or whatever else you like to drink. I read this book a long time ago, but not sure exactly when. Obviously after April 1997. Being that I like to read about espionage
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Three Book Recommendations: Erik Larson, Anne Frank, and Elie Wiesel

01/21/2019

Book Recommendations, History, Politics

Although I’ve read only one of these bookings, I know someone who has read all three. He said they are all great especially “In the Garden of Beasts” and “Night.” It was too important for me to pass up not recommending them, given we currently live in a time when it’s become all too easy
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Poem: Unnecessary Weight

01/21/2019

Poetry

Unnecessary Weight The pain easily sat there like a brick, and this brick was huge and heavy, much too heavy for one man to carry. Yet, here he was carrying this huge, heavy brick around his neck like he was born to carry it. He knew he wasn’t meant to hold it in any way.
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Monday Quotes

01/21/2019

Quotes

I’m not going to lie, I’m really damn tired today so my quotes are going to reflect this. I’m sure most people had to work today, but for those who live in the United States many did not because of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I was not one of those fortunate people since I
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Hitting the Trail for an Easy Hike

01/21/2019

Nature, Photographs

I’m starting out on this very easy hike on a fairly warm day, which was last Saturday. I gotta take a picture of my shadow. And I’m walking on the trail and taking a few pictures. Someone always has to dump their garbage and whatever this monstrosity is I have no clue. This is probably
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