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I Never Cry

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
October 7, 2025
This morning I woke up with eye irritation. I normally never cry, but last night, just before I fell asleep, I did. Not much, not like sobbing or anything. Just a few harmless little tears. But tears contain stress hormones, salt, and whatever toxins I don't know about. This stayed on my eyelid a...
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Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 28, 2025
Okay, I have been dealing with annoying spammers spamming my notes area and leaving spam. Today, it was worse. It was an illegal drug ad written in Russian. UGH! I had to get ChatGPT to translate the note for me, and it told me what it said. Then, ChatGPT asked me I wanted a simple…
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What I do in my spare time

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 25, 2025
So, last year, I decided to make a silly Youtube series. It started out as a joke at first. Like if someone from the future looked back at us today they would think we are like cavemen in terms of tech and medicines. The same way we look back to the 1800s when people were…
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Something about Night

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 24, 2025
There is something about the quiet of night that is soothing and settling. Tonight, not last night obviously, but most nights. I feel a little homesick tonight. I don't even know for what. It's a weird kind of homesick feeling. For a time and for people. The friends I hung out with. The times we&...
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Nothingness and Such

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 23, 2025
I literally accomplished nothing today. Well, other than detangle two rolls of velcro and clear my desk. If you missed my last two entries, you only missed a velcro rant ...mostly . . . mixed in with a bit of self-doubt and second-guessing. All of this nothingness leads me to a slight panic about...
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Coffee Dip

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 22, 2025
I figure us real people have about 300 posts to go in the next hour and then we will own the front page of OD once again. Honestly, it looks like I've been doing a lot of the lifting there lol. I just realized I've been posting about every hour for the past four hours.…
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Monday

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 22, 2025
I woke up with a big long list of To-Dos and the inspiration for a new novel. I don't have time to write a novel this week. I hadn't planned on writing a novel this week. I have a million things to complete before our Christmas catalogue gets released on October 17th! I have every…
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A Little Sad

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 21, 2025
My father died 20 years ago. I've thought about him from time to time but never really missed him. I never really knew him well. Today for some reason, I was missing him. Dad was a disabled mechanic with a garage at the end of our driveway and he fixed cars for people. He was also…
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The Joy of Irony

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 19, 2025
Ironically, in my last entry about less spammy hours, within seconds of posting it, a spambot posted a big long comment on it about how to improve my love life, or win the lottery, or get an ex back. I can't remember and I reported and blocked it so I can't see it now. It…
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Less Spammy Hours

Elizabeth Barstone - Novelist
September 18, 2025
So, I peeked into OD and it seems like the last spam was flung about 2 hours ago. So, I think "Happy Hour" (ie when we can be happy about OD lol) begins around 8:30 pm Atlantic time. Today was spent bogged down in accounting and admin stuff. Just as I was set to mail…
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