I started this blog exactly five years ago, as a tool to prompt me to write more. My peak in terms of frequency of posts happened a little over a year later. I think my favorite post of all time is this one, and the ones that have been read by the most people are [...]

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beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppp…..
“Shall we call it?”
“I think so. Nothing at all since August 23, nothing original since March 23. I think it’s gone.”
“Ok. Time of death, 4:56…”
“NOOOOOOOOO! I refuse to give up. Give me the paddles!”
“Are you crazy? This blog has been down WAY too long.”
“Give me the paddles! CLEAR!”
[zap]
“Come on, charge it again! Charge it again! [...]

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Yes, the cyclical nature of blogging has proved itself once again; only the troughs between waves of activity seem to be getting longer and longer. For my own sake, I want to post a few of my thoughts about this blog.
I began this journey of blogging to push myself to write more often. I enjoy [...]

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I’ve been thinking about slumps. Former baseball players do that occasionally.
There are different kinds of slumps. Some are like what I had last week in our first night of softball, a doubleheader where I got up 10 times, and absolutely crushed the ball on 9 of them. I was line-driving it everywhere, frozen ropes [...]

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So, I feel like I need to give a refund of everything you’ve ever paid as a reader of my blog. Your satisfaction guaranteed, or your money back, you know…but please don’t tell me if you are satisfied when the blog goes silent. I don’t want to know.
Easter dawned with hope, the beginning [...]

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I got tagged by Michael!
The rules of this meme are as follows:
1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
2. Find page 123
3. Find the first 5 sentences
4. Post the next 3 sentences
5. Tag 5 people
The nearest book to me is a toss up between the bible and “Christianity for the [...]

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Did you hear that? I think it might be me, fingers finding a keyboard, brain finding my blog again. The blogging bug is beckoning me back, and it’s because Robin asked me on facebook if getting a new computer means I might actually blog this month, and because AJ is going hogwild crazy with posts, [...]

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…which I don’t, because I don’t like the taste…but if I drank coffee, and if we weren’t scattered over thousands of miles, we could sit down together in a corner of Chapters, connecting in the warm hubbub of a coffee shop, and we could talk. You might ask,
So, what happened to your blog? I notice [...]

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Hello!
My name is Gregg, and once upon a time this blog was created as an outlet and a discipline for writing. Along the way, I unexpectedly made some new friends and joined a community. I had fun, and in typical Gregg fashion, I became addicted and a little too obsessive about it. I’ve been away [...]

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I’m in blog-hiatus land.
But you already knew that, since the last substantive post I made, other than posting a message from Sunday, is March 1. And I haven’t even posted the last four messages. I’ve felt some guilt about the lack of blogging, but realize that I’m still in a season where other things are [...]

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