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What Makes One A Father?
L ~ R: Circa 1923 ~ My father, Alfred Howard Copp, his brother Michael, and Don. Later on a sister, Dorothy, and a brother, Louis, came into this world.
What makes one a father? Literally speaking, his seed does the job nicely. Not everyone grows up in a loving home, and I most certainly didn’t. My father countered the evils brought on by my mother ~ yes, this I can say as she is no longer on this beautiful blue sphere of life; hence no slander.
My father was a special man who was gifted with skills in abundance. At the end of his sixth grade school year, he was sent into the world of work, and he had to pay his own room and board with his parents. This was in the middle of the 1920s and life was hard, very hard.
I grew up in a household of nine ~ two parents, two boys, and five girls, and I was number three in birth order. Despite my dad’s lack of formal education, he excelled in life, partly due to a photographic memory and the rest was sheer determination. His memory never failed even in later years. He worked hard to provide for his family, 40 hour work weeks at night, doing landscape work for us and others weekly, and drove a van part time for a laundry service. My dad also lavished time for us kids, and I’m just not sure when he fit in time to sleep. He would give our butts a swat, if needed, and he was the ultimate father. I know of no one else who could do, and manage, what mine did. I am thankful to have been his daughter.
How to Build an Author Page on Amazon.co.jp
How’s your Japanese? Mine is a little rusty, and because I sell a few books on Amazon.jp every week I thought I’d set up my author page. To save you the arse-ache of what I’ve had to go through to set mine up, here’s an easier way of doing it than toiling backwards and forwards from Amazon.jp to Google Translate:
1. Sign-in to your Author Central Account at: http://authorcentral.amazon.co.jp I did set my account up a couple of years ago, but never got around to making an author page. If you haven’t registered with Amazon.jp, they’ll need to confirm your email address first before they accept you.
2. Once registered, click the “本” (Books) tab on the top of the page.
3. Your books are displayed under “外国語の本” (Foreign Language Books).
4. Click the “さらに本を追加する” (Add more books) button near the top of the Books tab page. This will automatically…
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Things I Wish I Knew Before Self-Publishing
As I prepare to re-publish #WheelerNovel, here are some things I wish I knew a year ago when I first succumbed to the siren-song of the self-publish button.
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January 22nd, Missolonghi
On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year
‘Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yet though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of Love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
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How do I deal with spam comments on my blog 1: Why do people spam my blog and why should I stop them?
After writing about keeping people engaged with our blogs last week, I started thinking about those people we DON’T want to engage with – spammers. In the first part of this series I’ll talk about why people might spam comment on a blog and why we shouldn’t allow them to. I’ll move on to discuss how to identify a spam comment, and then how to deal with them.
What is a spam comment on a blog?
A spam comment is a comment that isn’t relevant to the blog post it’s commenting on and is placed simply to encourage people to click through to the website the spammer is promoting. At its “best”, this is used to promote a website, usually by a third party, but at worst, it could link to a dodgy site that could contain malware or viruses.
Why do people submit spam comments to blogs?
Like those…
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Consider the Plight of the Frown
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Kudos…..finding you at TSF with your cheers in my early
morning wake up is like finding water when we thirst, food
when we hunger and light when there is darkness…so a cheer for your
cheering.
Consider the Plight of the Frown by Denny Lancaster
Consider the plight of the frown,
where in TSF is one rarely found;
The uplifted frown is a wide grin,
and with cheering it does begin.
The cheer is more than a mere word,
as a Spirit Faerie this you have heard;
And as you begin your dusting with glee,
nary a sour note or dusting you will see.
There is a reason for this of course,
for at work in our midst is a force;
Whose power leads us all with her hand,
Spirit Faeries are members of a proud band
Lies Told By Small Presses
My man babies – a poem
You Are Beautiful
Hey you girl, yes you over there
Reading through your specs as they settle on your nose
And you too
Reading as your thoughts race back to gym
Then that girl over there
Reading while she covers her scars up with a scarf
You too my girl
Reading with her hat on, covering her balding top
Didn’t they tell you? How can they not?
Never mind, I will. Today and tomorrow, everyday
You are beautiful, just amazing
Don’t you ever doubt your beauty, it radiates from within
You need them? You need them not!
People who judge you from your cover don’t deserve to see the inner pages
Withdraw from them all for we are here
Loving you for the person you are, the soul that resides within
See that beauty you have
Embrace what you’ve got, face that mirror and tell it you are beautiful!
When Angels Fly 