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Diminishing Returns

I'm chagrined to realize how little I've managed to produce blog posts. I must admit that I've been so fatigued to the exclusion of all activities, save for listening to my beloved audiobooks, bathing, and attending my monthly ALSA meetings. Oh, and watching the TV news, and movies via Seattle Public Library and Netflix. How small my world has become.

I have read some good books, which I chronicle and review on www.Goodreads.com/IntrinsicTina. I'm an avid reader of detective novels, mostly pulp fiction, formulaic works from Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, Kathy Reichs, Michael Connelly, Clive Cussler, and James Patterson. But I've grown fond of biographies and memoirs, listening to the stories of Drew Barrymore, Wildflower, Marial Hemingway, Burt Reynolds, Enough About Me, Carrie Fischer, and Sarah Silverman, to name a few. 

 You may think that my life is not worth living, but I think it is. I can no longer do what I used to do, but I have love in my heart and a strong spirit. I still laugh at funny situations, everyday. I would gladly work for my paltry SSDI money if only I were allowed. I have such knowledge locked up in my head. If only...

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