Thomas

working on short story collection and poetry chapbook.



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Thomas's Life List

  1. 1. Brighten at least one person's day, everyday.
    7 entries . 68 cheers
    277 people
  2. 2. help people escape cults
    9 entries . 42 cheers
    6 people
  3. 3. Add an entry to each of my 43things things.
    2 entries . 31 cheers
    3 people
  4. 4. Publish a book of poems
    3 entries . 15 cheers
    47 people
  5. 5. Publish book of short stories
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    1 person
  6. 6. Clean up my first novel
    2 entries . 21 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. Clean up my first NaNoWriMo novel
    2 entries . 17 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. Submit one poem a month for publication
    1 entry . 14 cheers
    1 person
  9. 9. Submit one short story or article a month
    7 entries . 18 cheers
    3 people
  10. 10. Start work on my memoir
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    1 person
  11. 11. Finish work on my CULT story
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    3 people
  12. 12. Take more photos
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    3,367 people
  13. 13. Send something to post secret
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    657 people
  14. 14. Quit KNOWING what other people think
    1 entry . 33 cheers
    3 people
  15. 15. stop stressing about things beyond my control
    1 entry . 34 cheers
    44 people
  16. 16. write a best-seller
    1 entry . 14 cheers
    207 people
  17. 17. run a marathon
    1 entry . 17 cheers
    9,889 people
  18. 18. Make a habit of giving people the benefit of the doubt
    1 entry . 24 cheers
    2 people
  19. 19. stop wasting my time on the internet
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    7 people
  20. 20. make a difference
    1 entry . 12 cheers
    6,629 people
  21. 21. defend someone defenseless
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    2 people
  22. 22. Sing the National Anthem at a sporting event
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    15 people
  23. 23. Get a second tattoo
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    75 people
  24. 24. Run every day
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    252 people
  25. 25. Be debt free
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    1,964 people
  26. 26. Unconditionally forgive myself
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    1 person
  27. 27. Send a message in a bottle
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    3,514 people
  28. 28. live passionately
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    5,543 people
  29. 29. not push her away the next time she shows up
    2 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  30. 30. Find out who is subscribed to me.
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    48 people
  31. 31. do more volunteer work
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    115 people
  32. 32. Attend an ex-cult member workshop
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    1 person
  33. 33. buy a stranger something from their Amazon wishlist every month
    3 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  34. 34. Take one photo each week and post it on web.
    3 entries . 6 cheers
    1 person
  35. 35. Create a List of 365 Life-Inspiring Quotes
    70 entries . 8 cheers
    104 people
  36. 36. take 100 photos of strangers
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    9 people
  37. 37. Write Comedian Article for Today Magazine
    2 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  38. 38. Write Twelve More Songs
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  39. 39. Do 43 random acts of kindness in 2008.
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    12 people
  40. 40. enjoy the third quarter of 2008 by having one NEW and FULFILLING experience in July, August, and September
    39 team members . 3 entries . 2 cheers
    11 people
  41. 41. reflect daily in a 'one sentence' journal
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    162 people
Recent entries
Submit one short story or article a month (read all 7 entries…)
September and October 2008 8 months ago

A couple entries back, I mentioned my good friend Susan. She is still my good friend, but now she’s also my writing partner and my life partner.

We both like to write a lot and we both want to develop our writing careers so we have decided to encourage each other to submit at least one story or article every month.

For September, we both submitted a story to Ploughshares. For October, we both sent in a story to Writer’s Digest short story contest.

Wish us luck! :-)



Elect Barack Obama president (read all 4 entries…)
Republicans who Support Obama 8 months ago
  • Colin Powell – Former Secretary of State for George W. Bush
  • Christopher Buckley – Son of the late William F. Buckley Jr.
  • Jim Leach – Former Iowan Congressman
  • Richard Riordan – Former Mayor of Los Angeles
  • Jim Whitaker – Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska
  • Jackson M. Andrews – Republican Counsel to the Senate
  • Jeffrey Hart – National Review Senior Editor
  • Andrew Sullivan – Columnist for the Atlantic Monthly
  • Wick Alison – Former publisher of the National Review
  • Susan Eisenhower – Granddaughter of former President Eisenhower
  • Francis Fukuyama – Advisor to President Reagan
  • Lilibet Hagel – Wife of Republican Senator Chuck Hagel
  • David Friedman – Economist and son of Milton and Rose Friedman
  • Andrew Bacevich – Professor of International Relations at Boston University
  • Bill Ruckelshaus – Served in the Nixon and Reagan’s administrations
  • Rita Hauser – Former White House intelligence advisor under George W. Bush
  • Douglas Kmiec – Head of the Office of Legal Counsel under Reagan and George HW Bush
  • Linwood Holton – Former Governor of Virginia
  • Lowell Weicker – Former Governor and Senator from Connecticut
  • Lincoln Chafee – Former United States Senator from Rhode Island
  • The Chicago Times (First endorsement of a Democrat EVER)

For quotes and more information, check out http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/3341 .



Elect Barack Obama president (read all 4 entries…)
Words to Remember 8 months ago

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”Martin Luther King Jr.

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”Arthur C. Clarke

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”Albert Einstein

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”Martin Luther King Jr.



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