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Two gifts in one day

Not only did I get an upgrade on Writers.Com that allows me to write this blog for three months, I also just received word I won the newest novel 'Letters to Genoa' from Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (born 17 January 1968), a Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classical scholar. I will enjoy reading this book when it arrives in the mail and write about it.

My day has started with a double blast!

The sun is shining, my right big toe with a nasty cuticle inflammation is feeling somewhat better and I have made a commitment to at least write one piece and do another review this week. Life is full of promises. I am going to enjoy it.

So it's time for a confession. This early in the week? Yes, let's get it out. I never have learned to really enjoy myself outside my writing. I am a bit of a scholar, have been my whole life and that resulted in poor living. Not that I regret my choices in life, but I sometimes watch other people in their attempts to live life to the fullest, and it just isn't me. I envy that sometimes. My pleasures are always small, and they always concern writing in one form or the other. I have what you may call a tunnel vision on life. My motto for the last year has been:

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

I think I am in the process of overcoming my writers block that lasted for 9 months. So that makes me a very happy person today.