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Do you like humor and insight? Sure we all do…
I’ve collected all of the editorials and articles I have written for Green Spot Blue in one location. They can now be found here on my blog:...
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Music and My Writing Brain
I first learned the power of music in my writing while I was an undergrad in college. At that time, I was working on a story and for some unexplained reason I had to listen to The Nutcracker by...
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Thanksgiving Shadows
It seems every year that Thanksgiving becomes more and more the great afterthought of the holiday season. It is the hub between the ever more popular Halloween and Christmas, the great holiday hump...
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Thanksgiving Shadows
Reblogged from The Musings & Artful Blunders of Scott D. Southard: It seems every year that Thanksgiving becomes more and more the great afterthought of the holiday season. It is the hub between...
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The New Kid in the Audience: A Holiday Confessional
Hi, my name is Scott and I’m a Christmas-aholic. It has been two hours since I last listened to Nat King Cole sing “The Christmas Song.” - I love this season. I always have. I look forward to putting...
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The Christmas Accordion: Holiday 2012 Thoughts
I have three memories around my second grade teacher, Mr. Nyenhuis. The first involved the time he dumped Dan Wheeler’s desk on the ground, showing what an absolute mess it was. Seriously, there was a...
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Neil Diamond’s “A Cherry Cherry Christmas” is the Worst Christmas Song Ever!...
It takes a lot to write a worse song than “Christmas Shoes.” You could almost see a contest being created around the Herculean task. The title of the contest could relate to old, smelly sneakers or...
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My Online Literary Experiment: Holiday Break!
Sometimes like a coach, a writer has to make the right call for the team or athlete, no matter how unpopular the decision might be. (I am assuming this, I know nothing about sports.) See, I realized...
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Ho Ho Ho! To celebrate 1000 blog followers I wrote a Christmas song!
This weekend, we put up our Christmas tree. We called it our “retro-tree” and used color lights and gold garland. Very 70′s. While we were doing this important activity, we listened to a holiday music...
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Why The Littlest Angel is the worst holiday story… ever
When The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell was published in 1946 it was a holiday phenomenon. This “classic” story has since been published numerous times (with many different illustrated versions);...
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Book Sale on Kindle! The gothic MAXIMILIAN STANDFORTH… is only 99 cents!...
“For now, let me warn you of the morbid and sad tale ahead of you. This is a tale filled with horror, dark passages, ghostly apparitions, and deaths I would give my last shilling to forget.” For a...
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The Christmas Accordion: Holiday 2012 Thoughts
Reblogged from The Musings & Artful Blunders of Scott D. Southard: I have three memories around my second grade teacher, Mr. Nyenhuis. The first involved the time he dumped Dan Wheeler’s desk on...
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New WKAR Book Review: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Just in time for the holidays! Today on WKAR I take on one of the greats, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I’m really proud of this review and I hope you will check it out. You can listen to …...
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“Bad Christmas Songs, Grinches, and Accordions!” My Christmas Blogposts
So last night my wife and I were woken up by a bright light and then a bang. Then there was silence and darkness… Yup, we are one of the lucky people who lost their power in the big ice … Continue...
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Buy Books for Black Friday and Cyber Monday!
If you enjoy my blog or my books why not consider sharing the love with other readers? I promise that they have each been painstakingly constructed to fit in stockings and under trees… A Jane Austen...
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Forward to Christmas Past! Christmas Blogposts to Check Out…
There are a few things that I really enjoy writing about. A favorite author or book? Bring it on! A television show I like to watch? Sure. Something odd going on in my life? Well, within reason of...
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Kris and Me: A Christmas Story in 3 Parts
Part 1 Let’s get this out of the way first. Kris has always had a magnificent beard. Even as a freshmen, when the rest of us were dreaming for just the hint of a stubble, Kris had a full rich beard....
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Merry Christmas to my now 1548 blog followers! And my attempt at the worst...
I don’t know why I always get shocked by bad holiday stories. I already complained this year about the cruel Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (here) but this weekend I found something even worse. Wow,...
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New WKAR Book Review: My True Love Gave to Me edited by Stephanie Perkins
This is the second holiday season where I have had the pleasure of reviewing a Christmas book on WKAR’s Current State. Last year, I reviewed A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (which you can still...
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Christmas 2015
Here’s the thing I discovered this holiday season… There aren’t any new original Christmas books being written. When I started doing the book reviews for WKAR, I had this dream of discovering a new...
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