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Writing prompts, short short stories, no rhyme or reason.
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The DNA Adventure: When Your People Find You
The DNA Adventure: When Your People Find You
Every adopted person in the world eventually goes through that phase of questioning: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where are my people…
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)
Nov 23, 2020
My Year with Alexa: Or How I Learned to Stop Fearing the Robot Apocalypse
My Year with Alexa: Or How I Learned to Stop Fearing the Robot Apocalypse
To understand the significance of the above-pictured purchase, you will have to travel back in time to the 1980s, when Proto-Debbie was…
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)
Nov 22, 2020
Riding the Riptide
Riding the Riptide
I’m going to start this with a statement of obvious fact: we live in crazy times. Chaotic, frightening, confusing, polarizing times…
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)
Nov 21, 2020
5 Steps to Feeling Better: A Depressive’s Guide to Surviving the Corona Blues
So, COVID is driving you crazy, huh? Months and months of Not-the-Normal have got you depressed, scared, and unable to cope? You’ve binged…
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)
Nov 18, 2020
IN MEMORIAM: Joanne, 1952–2020
A year ago, my mother-in-law came to live with us in Phoenix. Joanne was a short, barrel-shaped woman with thinning gray hair. She spoke…
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)
Nov 16, 2020
7 Day Challenge
Day 1 — Embracing Pain in the Writing Process
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)
Nov 15, 2020
Screaming into the Wind
Screaming into the Wind
Every so often, I come back to this place where I want to write. I think it’s an underlying flaw of the creative mind, to want to do…
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)
Nov 15, 2020
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Writing Tools
Forgetting the Laptop
Deborah Baudoin (she/her)
May 27, 2014
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