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Category: Mashed Potatoes

Confessions of a Ghost Writer: the Big Scary

September 26, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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I read a column this morning in CodeLikeaGirl (on Medium) in which Kira Leigh eloquently expressed the sheer scariness of…

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Posted in: A Writer on Writing, Confessions of a Ghost Writer, Mashed Potatoes Filed under: codelikeagirl, editing, ghostwriting, poser syndrome, Ray Bradbury

Some Thoughts of Freedom of Speech

August 20, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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“And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen…

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Posted in: Mashed Potatoes Filed under: Alexander Hamilton, alt-right, Charlottesville, democracy, Federalist Papers, freedom of speech, liberty, racism, tyranny, violence, white nationalism

THIS IS … me being all authorial.

June 2, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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This is … me (Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) being so very authorial at the Book View Cafe table at BayCon 2017…

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Posted in: News, This is... Filed under: Baycon 2017, Book View Cafe, Crystal Rose, John Vester, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Taminy, The Mer Cycle, the meri

Do You Have the “Right” Mindset?

May 30, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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NPR recently ran a story that analyzed proposed cuts to government aid programs that stated the underlying premise behind those…

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Posted in: Mashed Potatoes Filed under: budget cuts, Carson, HUD, jobs, justice, Mulvaney, national budget, poverty, prosperity gospel, public aid, unemployed, wealth

THIS IS … the way to spell a word …

May 2, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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Specifically, it is the way to spell a chronically misused word. A word that means beliefs, principles, doctrines or creeds. Let…

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Posted in: This is... Filed under: chronically misused words, English 101, pet peeves, Rants

This is … Something I Stumbled Upon

April 11, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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… in my reading. I opened up the copy of the Federalist Papers I keep in iBooks, and saw that…

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Posted in: This is... Filed under: Alexander Hamilton, despotism, Federalist Papers, partisanship, This is

This is … Hogwarts (Or Not)

March 20, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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This is … Hogwarts West. Or at least it should be, don’t you think? It’s actually a student hall at…

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Posted in: This is... Filed under: Hogwarts, photo journal, Pitt, This is, University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh

This is … Something I Saw the Other Day

March 18, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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 This is … a gathering of Macaws are apparently chatting while their custodian is having lunch at a local Boulanger. They…

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Posted in: This is... Filed under: Macaws, parrots, photo journal, This is

“This is…” a Photo Journal

March 16, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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I was poring over my cache of photos and images this morning and decided that I’d like to share them…

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Posted in: A Writer on Writing, Mashed Potatoes, This is... Filed under: Gina Suzu Myoko, my favorite things, photojournal, tattoo, This is, Tinkerbell on Walkabout

Really, Really Pretending: Bowling Green

February 6, 2017 Maya Leave a comment
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There is a Baha’i prayer that invokes aid from God ”to refute what is vain and false.” Since Baha’is are…

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Posted in: Mashed Potatoes Filed under: Bowling Green Massacre, extreme vetting, fake new, falsehoods, fiction, Iraqi refugees, reality check, refugees, terrorist plots, travel ban

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