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It’s around 1:00 PM on a chilly, bright day in Pittsburgh and the Old Soldier is at Del’s Bar & Italian Restaurant having a couple of draft beers at the bar. Amy is behind the bar. She’s a working archeologist. She works out of the Carnegie Museum in my neighborhood of Oakland where the University of Pittsburgh is located.
The Old Soldier will leave here soon and get back to his apartment to put on a crock pot of chili con carne.
First brown the ground beef, chop it up, then throw it into the crock pot of diced green peppers, tomato sauce, cooked rice, kidney beans with plenty of chili powder, salt and pepper and a couple of small hot peppers. It will last a week.
You can’t beat it with a stick.
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Writing Well Is The Best Revenge
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If you’re not rich you can always say, well, I’m a good writer. If your marriage falls apart you can always point out, well, I did get published in a big-time blog. If your daughter’s arrest is on the six o’clock news you can always declare, well, I just sold my first short story.
Ha ha ha. The Old Soldier is just having some fun with you.
But there is something very satisfying about being a writer. Bad things are going to happen to you whether you’re a writer or not.
So, I choose to be a writer.
It’s not a philosophy that works for everyone. But as you struggle to be the best writer you can be, I bet you will begin to understand that writing well is the best revenge.
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