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Writing emotions. No, not ABOUT emotions.

By Laura June 10, 2013 December 29, 2022 Writing & Projects

The problem with writing is that it’s wholly subjective. Qualitative. No hard data.

ClickStats, my clicker-training data-keeping app

Where we can do quantitative analysis, we can make reasonable judgments even when our emotions aren’t in alignment. “I felt great about this today, but we actually had only a 70% success rate.” Or, “Oh, man, today has been a total downer and I hated this session, but we nailed it with a 90% success ratio.”

That’s very nice for behavior analysis and free throws. Not so useful with writing.

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Generations, Brick by Brick

By Laura June 6, 2013 December 21, 2022 My Rock Star Life, Just For Fun

So today’s post is about a field trip to family history.

All Saints, formerly St Joseph's Catholic Church — the impressive entry and steeple

We hopped in my new car and headed up to Logansport, IN. There’s a Catholic church there, now called All Saints since it blended with two other local churches, but it used to be known as St. Joseph’s. It was built in the 1880s, and my great-great-grandfather and his sons handmade each of the 650,000 bricks to construct it.