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The Prince of....Lemon Cookies!!!!

       I can say that it is an excuse to not to sit down and write. I can also say that in trying to make some lemon cookies right now while listening to some epic music (no seriously, it is titled Epic Music on youtube), I am looking for some inspiration and thinking about what to write.        Cooking is fabulous. I love food SO much. As a full time writer going through a bout of writer's block, I feel so much better when I can create something in another realm. Food. Now, by all means, I am nowhere near a great cook. But I get by pretty well. This cookie recipe happens to be one of my husband and my favorites because it is not only sweet but fresh with lemon zest. Definitely click on the link to make some fabulous lemon cookies:  Soft and Chewy Lemon Sugar Cookies | Baked by Rachel        My husband is currently outside working on our new flowerbed boxes before he goes into work. Sadly, these cookies will not be done by the time he goes in. He works the grave shift, and
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The Writing LEOW: Attempting to find a purpose

       It took me at least thirty minutes to find a blog title that not only was appropriate for what I wanted to write about but also was not already taken by someone else. Although this is nowhere near the whimsical or thought provoking direction I was going for, in the end I think it is more than appropriate. First, I am and have always been a writer. Second, I am married to a police officer. Both of those facts are HUGE in defining who I am and what I have become, whether I believe it or not.        The purpose of this blog is to have a place to throw down my scrambled thoughts, word puke if you will, and to find some inspiration and/or camaraderie in the swirling, emotional whirlpool that comes with being a writer and even a LEOW if any of y'all happen upon this blog (fyi: LEOW stands for Law Enforcement Officer's Wife. I hope I taught someone something new with that).        Yes, writing a blog should be cathartic. Perhaps in some ways it will be. However, I find that
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