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  Well the damn weeds will not pull themselves the fuck out. So I am on my knees, I’m stooped over and I’m killing my already killed back doing what nobody else seems to think they need to do. Yeah sure having a landscaper would be great, but I’m the damn landscaper, not that I’m scaping [...]

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Karin Slaughter’s Grant County series continues with Faithless, once again revisiting Sara Linton the Part Time Medical Examiner and pediatrician, her ex husband Police Chief Jeffery Tolliver and Detective Lena Adams. Slaughter deftly weaves the characters backgrounds into her narrative of the current crime. In this installment Sara and Jeffery stumble upon a grave of a [...]

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Just finished 2 more Brenda Novak books from the Stillwater Trilogy, missing the first, but here is a review of the two I read. Will have to find the first one….sigh. Dead Giveaway~ After a painful divorce, detective Allie McCormick comes back to her childhood town of Stillwater to start a new life with her six-year old [...]

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A while back I began a series of short stories I wrote and filed under “The Write Stuff” http://rubycantu.wordpress.com/category/the-write-stuff/  these are/were based on my own personal experiences as well as others from when I worked in a Domestic Violence shelter and answered the hotline and helped battered women escape their abusive situations. When I started this [...]

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Family, everyone has family, some-  you may not want to be around and others you love dearly. She had always been close to a few members of her family, she had been roommates with a couple of family members and during the years they roomed together they also took many road trips. They were not about [...]

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To read the complete series go to “CATEGORIES” on the right side and click on “THE WRITE STUFF”. The phone, the goddamn phone, she used to love having hours long conversations with her friends and family. He would come home from work and pick up the phone and hit redial, at first she wasn’t sure [...]

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***To read the complete series go to “CATEGORIES” on the right side and click on “THE WRITE STUFF”.*** She realized that he was an insecure man, jealous, controlling and not all together very bright, but he also had a mean streak to him that terrified her. She had in mind that her vows were meant [...]

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**Domestic Violence is not just physical abuse, it includes, verbal, emotional and also includes psychological as well as other forms of abuse. Domestic Violence should not happen to anyone…EVER. ** She set out to find a babysitter and a job, she had no prior experience but was smart and willing and able to do anything, [...]

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Good morning and happy Saturday…I sit here having read through me emails…some not all…read my newspapers..some not all….and having my coffee…which seems to be on the weaker side this morning. I stayed up until 3am reading one book and thinking finally I can go to sleep. Ha! I started another book and ended up staying [...]

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