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Sometimes, despite one’s best effort, things don’t go as planned; well-intentioned lists of things to do end up like forgotten-to-tie shoelaces that can trip us unexpectedly.

Try as I may, I have to admit that my blogging habit runs in spurts, or more aptly, sprints. I write voraciously for a week or two, then like a distance runner who mysteriously hits the wall, I sit down on a curb to rest, only to come to my senses a week later and realize I forgot to get up and continue the race.

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Since one of my reasons for blogging is to force myself to write beyond my usual abuse of the thesaurus in my daily business and technical writing, it follows that I sense a need to write in other areas. “Writers write,” and all those other stale cliches that intend to inspire, yet don’t, are like so many suicide bugs on the windshield of an interstate traveler’s car. Like the gooey bugs, the little quips and inspirationals only cause a “gee golly…” for a few seconds, then it’s back to the sweet taste of banality.

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