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Continue reading →: A Good Market Haul
Decorah has a fantastic Farmers Market (one of the best in the state) and as I’ve lived in Decorah, I found myself enjoying it more and more. It’s not just the local food, but also the opportunity to get to talk to the people who baked the goods and raised…
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Continue reading →: Write What You Know
They say ‘Write what you know’. My friend, Donald Harstad, said that this mantra is the reason he doesn’t write sex scenes. Funny guy, that Don. Go buy his books. They’re awesome. Aside from bad jokes (which I’m sure Steph loves – Hi hon!), the mantra can be interpreted in…
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Continue reading →: Parking, Pistils, and Points
Parallel Parking and I are rarely on speaking terms. I hate to do it. Parallel Parking hates it when I make a mockery out of its good name by attempting the feat. As this is a mutual hatred, I go out of my way to avoid parallel parking. In Decorah,…
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Continue reading →: Risin’ Up …
When us Hughes boys were growing up, we were all involved in Cross Country. It was a passion for us and of course, our parents made sure to encourage that. It was probably better than us getting into trouble. Whenever we had meets that were close by and held in…
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Continue reading →: 100% American … or Maybe Not
I was born here in the United States. My parents were both born here in the States. My grandparents … well, that’s where it gets a bit mixed up. See, somewhere in there, we’ve got a bit of Italian in our blood. We have no idea who it came from…
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Continue reading →: Waxing My Cheese
No, it’s not a bad euphemism. I honestly waxed cheese tonight. Actually, Steph did most of the work. I stood around and made sure the fumes from the melting cheese wax didn’t render either of us unconscious or burst into flames. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The process began…
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Continue reading →: The Moment of Inspiration
Some people write in the morning. Others write in the afternoon or over breaks. Me, I’m a late night writer. My Beast, whom I affectionately refer to as my Writing Moose, tends to come out late at night. This ain’t bad when the Moose shows up sometime around 7:30 or…
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Continue reading →: Once upon a time…
Beginnings are essential to a story. I mean, without the beginning, how would you know where to start? Every book would read like the movie Pulp Fiction. Bad humor aside, getting the beginning to a story right is incredibly important. Every writer has heard how famous authors have re-written their…
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Continue reading →: The Computer Is Your Friend
Steph uses this bar code scanner for her job, so we leave it connected to the computer. Of course, it’s sitting on top so every time I open the DVD drive or plug something in the USB slots, it tries to scan me. I think my computer is trying to…
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Continue reading →: A New Theme
There may be some changes on the page today. I’m tinkering around with a few new themes and seeing what works best. The previous one was called Fresh-Editorial and I was fond of it, but I couldn’t make it do a few things that I wanted for the long run. …
Hello,
I’m Matt
This is Moose and Ink – home of the writer Matt A. Hughes, resident of Northeast Iowa and generally an all around good guy.
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