NC Writer’s Network

Executive Director, North Carolina Writers Network

The North Carolina Writers’ Network, North Carolina’s leading advocate for authors, writers and the literary arts, is seeking a highly motivated self-starter to fill its position of Executive Director. The ideal candidate will have experience in leading and managing a vibrant and diverse organization that includes members throughout [...]

Val’s Next Kind of Cake, revisited

Used can of Bacardi pina colada frozen drink mix with a plain yellow cake recipe (in the Kitchen Aide mixer recipe book) to create Val’s Next Kind of Cake, v1.2 – the PC cake
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Baked cake, removed from oven… inverted cake to plate, poked a bunch of holes in the cooling cake w/end of wooden spoon,
mixed [...]

light pollution hurts eco-travel and historic tourism

Light pollution in historic downtown Washington, NC
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Photopress put macewan.net on the photo, but it’s from Rob’s blog, macewan.org, referenced above in the link to the light pollution article.

Who’s the idiot now?

I never look up the spelling of TV character’s names. That is far more detail than I ever need to know. On the other hand, many shows give you the information every damn time the character is visible. “Jenettallia Monique, firefighter and stripper” on Survivor-clones. So all this time I’m thinking the dead guy on [...]

NC state and federal legislators

Well, it seems to be perfectly fine to prey on children in public restrooms and it seems perfectly fine to drive while under the influence, and it seems almost commonplace to rip off taxpayer dollars by pork barreling gabillion dollar bridges … (hey, who says Craig thought he was playing footsie with a man?)
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the never-failing amusement…

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To my Y&R companions: Phyllis just needs to get her ass to prison, this is getting stupid. Move plot forward please.
To my neighbors, to the crack-heads near Old 2nd Street or to whomever this applies: If you truly needed the tools and didn’t steal all the stuff in our garage simply to pawn it [...]

Amy Vanderbilt dicates the 1963 social ideal

Nothing says fun like an etiquette book from 1963.
…A few years back no American he-man would have considered using a bit of cologne on his handkerchief or after his bath. A man didn’t use perfumes — or so he pretended. But American men, nevertheless, were inundated in a sea of ill-blended effluvia — violet hair [...]

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