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March, 2008

  1. Rough Drafts

    March 17, 2008 by Blondette

    I have many; most are titled cleverly, some are titled merely “Post #xxx.” There is humor, angst, sadness, epiphany, quotation, meditation, and admiration contained within these unpublished drafts.

    My friends call me a free-style crafter–unlike my project and pattern oriented gal pals, I tend to just do and envision as I go. I have been knitting the same peach scarf for over a year; I bead and take apart, I knit a hat that was meant to be a purse.

    Every part of life is a rough draft. I used to tell teachers I was no good at rough drafts because–I always had a fragment of something I would later make whole. Who and what I am now is just a rough draft. Only when I die will I pen the final draft. Until then, I consider these next few things to be unwritten paragraphs, sections, and chapters. Who knows, maybe I am a living triology! You hobbits watch out!

    Career. I began unsure what I would end up doing and afraid of not being in love with my career. I found path, and that path found me. I love internet marketing. There tends to be a negative connotation associated with marketing, but like anything, there is the good and the bad. I know someday internet marketing and I will part ways. What else will I do?

    I would like to own my own business. I am not sure what kind, but it will be mine and I will have a bookkeeper because I hate paying bills. I can manage cashflow in my head, but when it comes to paying bills, blah.

    I will be a published author. My models and mentors are Sarah Vowell and Bill Bryson. They write from life, from history, from the everyday ordinary. These writers experience and expound with humor and enthusiasm supported wholly by wit and fact.

    I would like to run an inn or a bed and breakfast. My grandmother had a B&B just off the Country Club Plaza and very near the Nelson. My bed and breakfast will be somewhere picturesque. My kids will be in college so I will need something new to nurture. Why not nurture the weary traveler? the anxious vacationer? the ambling connoisseur.

    There is more, but, until then, save and continue editing.