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mopinko

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Tue Dec 3, 2019, 11:33 AM Dec 2019

good morning. i have decided it's time to write that book. [View all]

so, i am the sort of person who has reinvented themselves many times. i just turned 65, and think i might be on my last reinvention.
i have a definition of a life well lived, for me.
raise one child, build one building and write one book.

i think everyone should write their own story. i am blessed w a genetic heritage of words. i sing my people's song. irish, irish, irish, irish. my dad was a great story teller, all us kids got high test scores in language, all my kids are great readers and writers. so i feel my tools are sharp enough.
as it happens, in my trials of mmj, i find that the best strains poke me in my language centers. not just word choices, but spelling and typing w more ease and speed. so, yeah, carpe this diem.

my first decision is which life to write about. like i said, i have had many, and many contain good stories w/in them.
i thought you might get a chuckle out of my first day's work product as i sort through this dilemma.

to my mother’s everlasting regret, my father infected me at a very early age w the ability to believe in dreams.

book 1- i sing my people’s song. an irish, irish, irish girl gets her irish up.

book 2- moah’s ark. another chapter in the book of crones.

book 3- punky the monster puppy, an illustrated childrens book.

book 4-i have fallen for a data point in the demise of civiilzation.

book 5- once there was a noodle man

book 6- the quirky sculpture and heroic paintings of artist mo cahill

book 7- a series- a sweet old lady commits crimes of righteous indignation, but is never caught.

book 8- a series- an old lady gets a chance to redeem her goodie 2shoes youth. books include- mind blowing sex after 60, mico and aunt maureen, at the old hippies home.



that first sentence is something i wrote in my head many years ago, and filed away to be the first sentence of this book.
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