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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 28 MAY 2024: Just a little about me. I've been married for 32 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. This is me. I am a Gemini. Pure, Raw, passionate. The NEW focus of this blog is to share my adventures, travels, random thoughts, book reviews, thoughts, opinions, and writing adventures from actual writing, writing/editing tips, marketing, research. I'll get there. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2024: I participated in the
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Congratulations on completing the 13 Poetic Days of Halloween.](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Halloween-2026567.gif) Big Thanks to Lyn's a Witchy Woman  for hosting the contest!Find me at: WEBSITE: http://www.stephanieburkhart.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/StephanieBurkhartAuthor GOOD READS: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4031660.Stephanie_Burkhart YOU TUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/user/botrina?feature=mhee Previous GRATITIOUS Warning, that I decided to keep in case I post about something that might offend.  WARNING I intend to be open, honest, and forthright. No topic is off limits from religion to you name it, I'm going there. If you think you might be offended...back up now - this blog isn't for you. For those who "dare"  check out the "Gemini Rising..." 
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| Just some more random thoughts... EAGLET UPDATE: The Big Bear eagle cam confirmed that the 3rd eaglet died in the winter snow storm. Now that the snow in the nest has melted, they caught one of the parents pick up the remains of the dead eaglet and fly off. It's kinda gross so I won't show it. At least I have closure now. SPACE X Wicked excited that the 2 Astronauts who were brought up in the Boeing starliner are coming back today. I watched them de-dock (? is that a word?) from the space lab earlier. Splashdown is set for 557 pm EDT which is 257 pm EDT my time, Gosh, it's just around the corner. Splashdown point is just off the coast of Tallahassee. I've been interested in space since I was a kid in the 1970's. Sending good vibes for a speedy recovery. PIZZA Today's random thought was pizza. Mind you, it's hard to eat pizza on weight watchers because 1 slice is a lot of points and I really need to plan if I'm going to have pizza so I can budget the points, but I can honestly say there are times when I need to budge the points because I'm craving the cheese. I like the wafer thin crusts a lot. I also like a pizza hut deep dish pizza, but only pizza hut's. For regular crust pizzas I like toppers or roundtable. I don't mind dominos and I'll get them when I do "saturday night snack" at work. I'm always game to find a good mom and pop pizza shop, and I prefer my pizza a tad on the 'toasty' side. I remember eating pizza in Germany and it came whole, not sliced and you would have to eat it with a fork and a knife. I still eat my pizza with a fork and knife. My favorite place to go at my first duty assignment was a pub in downtown Handorf, Germany. They had a shrimp pizza to die for! I remember the German liked salami, too. I always liked going out to eat in Germany. Good times - pizza - and beer.  What's your favorite pizza? |
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