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Time to Stop the Hair-Tucking Madness!

I was reading Bookpage the other day and came across this passage that had me burst out laughing: Dear Author Enabler, Recently I've noticed that in every book I read, at some point, someone tucks a lock of hair behind the ear of another character. . . . What is going on? Is there now some kind of rule that EVERY novel has to have a hair-tucking scene? Is there some super-hair-tucking-editor somewhere who checks to make sure it's there? It's driving me crazy. Kathleen Winkler And the answer . . .  I'm so glad that you brought this crisis to my attention. You are the Paul Revere of American readers, riding through the countryside warning us of an invasion of hair-tucking in fiction. And you are not alone in your concern. On May 25, Cyndi Tefft tweeted, "Almost every romance novel I've read has the guy tucking a stray lock of hair behind her ear, yet men rarely ever do this." There is an epidemic of hair-tucking going on in American novels, and it

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The Tombstone Saga Continues

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I wrote before about finding this tombstone and being intrigued by it. I admit, in the intervening time, I haven't done anything about. It's kind of just been sitting in the back of my mind, along with the million other items that are collecting dust in there. A few times a year, I submit my photos to an online service to order prints. I had one such order come in this week. I didn't open the box until Saturday night when I sat down to sort the photos and prepare to put them in albums/scrapbooks. When I opened the box, I discovered that (in error) I had been sent 300 copies of this one photo! I'm starting to wonder if the universe (God) is trying to tell me something . . .