One of this week's writing assignments was to write about what you or your character has had to say NO to. Here's the result so far:

Kathy’s inability to say No was an accepted fact of her make-up, just like the way her hair was flat except for the bump of a cowlick at the top of her scalp or the scar on her eyebrow from a run-in with the coffee table as a little girl. It was something had settled into the residue of her being, the stuff that made her Kathy.

But Kathy still thought about it. She grappled with it silently as something that she knew could logically be trained out of her system yet baffled by her inability to do so. When she looked around, she saw her life comprised of the results of her inability to say No, or mean it when she did say No. Each of her four children were four representative episodes (there were many others) where she had failed to convey No to their father.

You may have noticed that the look of this site has changed since May. You may also have noticed that the entries have not changed drastically since May. Or, you may have given up entirely on checking this site ever because there have generally been no changes since you last checked in May. What was going on in the background during all those months of mostly no change?

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