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Aesop’s Foolish Farmer
Read more: Aesop’s Foolish FarmerAs the calendar flips to a new year, I find myself desperately clinging to the many positive intentions I’d set for myself as they get sucked, one by one, into a vortex of volatility. I thought I was doing pretty well this holiday season, for a change. All the ghosts of Christmases past weren’t exactly…
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Gaslighting 101
Read more: Gaslighting 101Okay, I’m now working on a final (yeah, right) deep dive to enrich and layer my characters even more (gasp), so now I’m working on my antagonist in Pura Vida. He’s gotta be a really bad dude dressed in celestial clothing. But authentic, right? Otherwise, my protagonist would have been a fool to marry the…
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With Friends Like You…
Read more: With Friends Like You…Depending on how that sentence is finished will convey a sense of rosy euphoria or, at the other end of the spectrum, a sense of doom and gloom. Writing engaging characters and their relationships with others is a complex, often rugged odyssey. Perfect friends, those true-blue-to-the-bitter-end friends, are not very interesting, as far as storytelling…
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6.1 On the Richter Scale!
Read more: 6.1 On the Richter Scale!For Costa Rica, that’s a temblor gigante! A 6.1 magnitude earthquake is categorized as “strong”, which K and I can attest to after we were jolted out of a dead sleep last night. We gathered the dogs, poised to execute our evac plan to run out front and avoid falling trees and outbuildings until the…
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Rainy Season Blues
Read more: Rainy Season BluesAs the season crescendoes to its finale, most of us fulltimers cry out with a sodden optimism, “Ojala! The sun will shine soon.” Sure, we love the opulence of the lush forests, the delicious panoply of the greenest greens on the planet, the extraordinary diversity of wildlife, not to mention the healthiest air on Earth.…
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Bury My Heart…
Read more: Bury My Heart…So, I’m supposed to be working on my Thematic Threads Spreadsheet this morning, which is an amazing writer’s tool that turns out to be quite arduous. Then, against Karl’s wishes, I turned on the news. Big mistake. I try not to be too political on my Blog because we get enough of that on TV…
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Lightning Never Strikes Twice
Read more: Lightning Never Strikes TwiceRight?! Whoever said that never lived in a rainforest. So far, in 2025, our property has been struck by lightning four times. Four!! We’ve lost one camera, 4 video intercom cameras, 3 gate motherboards, 2 gate programming boards, and one gate remote receiver board. Oh yeah, and one video intercom screen. Seems like a lot,…
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Forgiveness
Read more: ForgivenessWhen I was a child, forgiveness seemed so uncomplicated and straightforward. And it was always a two-way street. No self-righteous absolutisms existed back then, except for divine ones or Mom’s discretionary punishments. Forgiveness and repentance went hand-in-hand to the ice cream social of human decency. Idealistic? Maybe, but it sure looks good in hindsight. So…
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“While the world burns…”
Read more: “While the world burns…”Writer/poet/artist Sabyasachi Roy’s book has ignited my creative energies at a time when my spirit is spiraling. As multiple regional wars gain traction and famine thrives, the world is teetering on the brink of one massive, global war. I guess that would be World War III, for those who are counting. “Somewhere, right now, a…
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Killin’ It
Read more: Killin’ ItBeing in crowds these days, whether large or small, puts me in a schizophrenic state of exuding charm while scrupulously plotting my exit strategy. It wasn’t always like that. In my Hollywood days, being on set was usually a hive of intense activity, with dozens of workers buzzing around on missions known only to them.…
Judy Richter
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