tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13357700535223227152024-03-13T16:24:12.657-04:00Liquidating LifeThe trials, joys, and tears of one's life coming to an end. An almost-daily account of the journey in liquidating life.Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-67870365558746328532023-08-13T16:38:00.000-04:002023-08-13T16:38:59.649-04:00Latest Upload to Amazon!<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-zTRyMKazTE4865jZ5okN-6hLaWWhHziYRxikEG4aMq1icCxQNNqlN5TsmrsMjZ6q5tnBK6xhf0h1ABZC7F-_JSTt4Rz8TAQzjBR6afTfOCwAuGWWoq459KzFuoOT5nbWATSjaiLK4cnXDZ9yXcmWK0accbTWeoEq4OHWUc3Jse2J_j1bmq2_k0Pqw/s500/An%20Assortment%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="314" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-zTRyMKazTE4865jZ5okN-6hLaWWhHziYRxikEG4aMq1icCxQNNqlN5TsmrsMjZ6q5tnBK6xhf0h1ABZC7F-_JSTt4Rz8TAQzjBR6afTfOCwAuGWWoq459KzFuoOT5nbWATSjaiLK4cnXDZ9yXcmWK0accbTWeoEq4OHWUc3Jse2J_j1bmq2_k0Pqw/s320/An%20Assortment%20cover.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">AN ASSORTMENT OF TRUTHS AND TALES compiles over twenty writings by award-winning author, Laura G. 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Follow a path through flash fiction, memoir, poetry, and inspirational words sprinkled with humor, hope, romance, and time travel. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You may even uncover a few secrets about me!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: arial;">AN ASSORTMENT is available on Amazon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Assortment-Truths-Tales-Laura-Cogdill-ebook/dp/B0CCX1J2JV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BQKH9GUA9YJQ&keywords=laura+g+cogdill&qid=1691956744&sprefix=laura+g+%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1"><b>https://www.amazon.com/Assortment-Truths-Tales-Laura-Cogdill-ebook/dp/B0CCX1J2JV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BQKH9GUA9YJQ&keywords=laura+g+cogdill&qid=1691956744&sprefix=laura+g+%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1</b></a><br /></p>Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-64812489816520047052021-09-19T15:21:00.004-04:002021-09-19T15:33:27.205-04:00Another Short Story on Amazon<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLvSvaLTqUfGV5G6Y0Q3aTFXdZorrQBleAxVSIeZTQ3pvoW7m7hit7FgfXJ50RFqjNFTDAfMokxVOE-y9J3nQDgIfmKY7S12kQtVOEOC3whPyfWAix1Qc0jHlRSHXjJ-hpTNmV13OmXQ0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="314" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLvSvaLTqUfGV5G6Y0Q3aTFXdZorrQBleAxVSIeZTQ3pvoW7m7hit7FgfXJ50RFqjNFTDAfMokxVOE-y9J3nQDgIfmKY7S12kQtVOEOC3whPyfWAix1Qc0jHlRSHXjJ-hpTNmV13OmXQ0/" width="151" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-Time-Coming-Laura-Cogdill-ebook/dp/B08VSJT7KC/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=laura+cogdill&qid=1632078836&sr=8-2" target="_blank">"A Long Time Coming"</a> (click for link)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Troy and Caroline have been best friends as long as they can remember. 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One day, John asked me the number you call when you need help. </div>
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-58861591550051934782020-07-30T09:48:00.000-04:002020-07-30T09:48:01.620-04:00Author photos updated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-35220811168344586502017-01-21T08:55:00.000-05:002017-04-15T09:31:03.681-04:00On Love, Language, and Loss<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Four books were compared: <i>One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir; To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed; Liquidating Life; Still Alice.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have also started the tradition of getting a wind chime to mark the anniversary of John's passing. Since I spent the weekend at Disney this February, I wanted one Disney-related. Since I couldn't find one that hit me just right, I ordered the chime in the picture below. It is "Cinderella blue," and has a butterfly (which played an important role in the live-action Cinderella movie). </span><br />
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-51551809896416035132016-08-05T09:55:00.003-04:002016-08-05T09:56:47.751-04:00Relay for Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-78511036079256790162016-02-09T22:10:00.000-05:002016-02-10T20:29:32.509-05:00Camouflage: The Day After Tomorrow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-58947771127481837332015-07-28T22:26:00.000-04:002015-07-28T22:26:04.377-04:00Taylor County (FL) Friends of the Library<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-73242821299538504802015-07-28T22:16:00.002-04:002015-07-28T22:17:59.510-04:00summer of discovery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-74705920610622373882015-06-15T23:54:00.000-04:002015-07-28T22:18:15.065-04:00John Strikes Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Summer brings the major projects I've put off until I have the time, such as painting and moving furniture to clean. Today I painted the hall which meant I had to take the pictures off the wall. When I went to rehang the largest one, on the back I found another sticky note from John, as well as a photo. He went through a phase of scanning leaves from the yard and making photographs of them. (One particularly excellent one is enlarged and hanging in the living room.) Just when months or a year passes and I'm not expecting to find another note from him, one appears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">..........and again today, June 17, 2015, while prepping to paint the bathroom, I took the picture off the wall, and stuck to the price tag still hanging on the back was this sticky from John:</span></div>
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-91664594936449633672015-04-11T22:40:00.001-04:002015-04-11T22:44:15.717-04:00Big Dog and Georgia Girl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-80495713165671089622014-11-22T09:50:00.003-05:002015-06-18T22:57:39.543-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-16382689771003628322014-09-27T20:19:00.000-04:002014-09-27T20:24:02.678-04:00FREE ON KINDLE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>Liquidating Life</u> was awarded a silver medal in the Health & Fitness category by the Florida Authors & Publishers Association, at their fall conference August 9, 2014.</span><br />
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-72966441484150813162014-08-10T15:48:00.002-04:002014-08-10T15:54:26.998-04:00more updates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">July 29th, 2014 I found another sticky note John left for me. It was stuck to the back cover of a music book on the shelf. The book was yellow like the note, and I had flipped through the pages, stacked it with other books, put it in a box, then turned it over to make it stack better, and BAM, there was the note.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Not sure exactly what it says, but it doesn't matter. It's been right at 2 years since I found one, and truly thought there probably weren't any more. It was a happy day!</span><br />
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-63114783556356156422014-07-28T11:19:00.000-04:002014-07-28T11:22:07.821-04:00Character Blog Hop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I was invited by Susan Womble (<a href="http://www.susanwomble.com/">www.susanwomble.com</a>) to participate in the Character Blog Hop. Here are my answers to the questions about a character in my story. I will also post them on my facebook page, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">John Dennis Cogdill, and yes, he was a character.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">2. When and where is the story set? Tallahassee and Havana; 2009-2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">John Dennis was a gracious, big-hearted person.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">4. What is the main conflict? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A diagnosis of brain cancer changed John Dennis' world in 2009.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">5. What is the personal goal of the character? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">John Dennis' main goal was to get the gospel message to as many as he could in the time he had left.</span><br />
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-51284058242680531232013-08-08T21:27:00.000-04:002014-06-08T20:48:57.043-04:00book availability<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes you have to do the hard thing. The thing you don't want to. Even if you know you need to or have to.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A week ago, I noticed my lawnmower was not running smoothly. It would skip, ride rough, but got the job done.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday, it ran smoothly; like new again. When I finished the yard, I parked the mower near the water spigot to spray it off and clean the underside because the grass was still a bit damp and clingy. The battery wouldn't turn over when it came time to put the mower away, even though it had run smoothly up until then. I checked to make sure I had every lever in the correct place but it just wouldn't start. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I called my father to get his opinion on battery life. We didn't think it should be dead yet, and he suggested I jump it off with my car. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I really didn't want to do this because I've never done it before. Fifty years old and never jumped a car. I have jumper cables in my trunk; have seen it done a million times.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Having not run the weed-eater or blown off the clippings, I told him I'd figure out something later; I needed to finish the rest of the yard before the sun got too high.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I am good at arguing with myself and running through every scenario possible to find a solution to problems. I tried pushing the mower into the carport but it got stuck against the driveway and wouldn't go forward. Time was also running out because I needed to run errands and didn't want to leave the mower sitting in the yard.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The only answer was to jump off the battery. I pulled the car next to the mower, got the cables from the trunk, and read the directions of which cable to put on first, second, and so on. Sure, I was nervous and afraid I'd shock myself or worse, blow up something. When I tried to attach the last cable clamp, it wouldn't stay. Then I noticed the nut and bolt holding the battery cable to the mower battery was very loose. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Again I called my father to make sure if I tightened the nut, it wouldn't shock me. I couldn't get a good grip on it and used one of my favorite tools, a socket, to tighten the nut, and ta-da, the mower cranked right up.</span><br />
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Laura Cogdillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00847039528737563096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1335770053522322715.post-78141526657535902282013-06-10T22:22:00.002-04:002014-06-08T20:50:24.122-04:00Book Launch Party<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><b>The book launch party for "Liquidating Life" was held Friday, June 7, 2013 at Dorothy B. Oven Park in Tallahassee. This is a picture of the main room.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>In May, I ordered 100 books to sell and give away. I have only about a dozen left and re-ordered more yesterday. A few weeks ago, I spoke to a writing group about the publishing process with createspace. A retirement facility is hosting a local author round-table event later in June and I've signed up to participate. </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>"Liquidating Life" is on kindle now, but the pictures didn't transfer. It is what it is and I've sold a half dozen.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>There are 5 reader reviews on amazon. The book's ranking fluctuates from 55,000 to 800,000 depending on how much traffic/sales/comments/activity is on the amazon page. </b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">They're here! 100 copies of "Liquidating Life", the book I put together from this blog and emails by John and me over the time of his illness. In another entry, I'll tell some of the trek into publishing. The book is available on amazon.com and also on kindle.</span><br />
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