About Joelle
Joelle LeGendre
Ranter Extraordinaire
If there are annoying people, places or things…if there is minutia that needs to be beaten to death, I’m out there–in more ways than one.
Being dyslexic, consistency is NOT an option. I write the color of life that my brain sees, hears, tastes, smells and feels in the moment.
- Poetry, prose, or a haiku-like-substance one day, some of it is actually (shudder) NICE! What’s my secret? I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, so I don’t know that I’m not supposed to be doing it.
- humor the next,
- followed by self-reflection,
- cat, dog,
- nature,
- a rant,
- reblog
- a photo without words, or
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a photo WITH words,
so…if you’re looking for a consistently relaxing read, calming words to soothe your frazzled nerve endings, or something to help you fall asleep, you’re in the wrong blog.
Since starting this blog September 2012, I’ve branched out to Twitter (translation: I was dragged there, kicking and screaming by 2 of the most patient people I know, and still feel like a turtle trying to cross an LA freeway). Look for my picture with these words under it:
“Author of 5-star ATTO RUN: First Level of Hell. Well endowed with the multi-layered weirdness of a not-quite-right-mind. So I write Sci-Fi, love animals & seek.”
© Copyright-All rights reserved on EVERYTHING on this blog by rantingalong.wordpress.com Joelle LeGendre also known as FloridaBorne 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 — 2020…what the hell! I’m copyrighting this C#@p until I’ve been dead for 30 years.
I like to think I’m still here because of a glitch in the matrix. Love the blog!!!
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Speaking of glitches. . What blogger in their right mind doesn’t check their “About” page for a year?
I think you already know. 🙂
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I am loving all your posts!
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Thanks.
Please accept my apologies for failing to answer you before now. My heart may be deeply in love with the computer age, but sometimes I think my mind is firmly rooted in the Selectric era. 🙂 I’m still trying to figure out how to navigate my own blog.
Thanks for your kind words.
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Oh you are fine! 🙂 I understand!
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Come on! “Selectric era” You can’t be anything like that old. Reason I state this? In 1970 I joined IBM UK Ltd as an Office Products salesman selling, yes you guessed it, a range of products including the IBM Selectric Golf ball typewriter.
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Yes, I learned on a manual and my first job required the use of a selectric typewriter complete with correctype. I would change out the ball according to whether I wanted a script type lettering or the usual print. Also, the department had a Xerox copy machine and I was the one who cleaned the drum on it. There was no automatic collate, 2-sided printing, stapling or color printing available. That was nothing less than science fiction. Still, it was better than carbon paper. 🙂
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Hi my friend,
I’ve just nominated you for a 2013 Blog of the Year Award! See details here: http://kimkiminy.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/blog-of-the-year-award/
Have a great day!
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My apologies. I failed to answer you in a timely manner. I’m honored to receive the nomination and I thank you.
It looks like the award I’ll end up receiving is “the person least likely to know how to navigate their own website” award.
Again, this half-blind dyslexic apologizes for missing your comment. 🙂
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Thank you! Alla
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I liked the story of how you met your husband. This is the link to the story about how I met mine:
https://rantingalong.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/what-do-you-think-psychic-or-psychotic-picture-added-2/
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I’ve nominated you, whether you like it or not 😀
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Love the gritty honesty – “you’ve got spunk” – and in the words of the immortal Lou Grant “I hate spunk!” but he hired Mary Richards anyway and they became the best of friends! 🙂
AnnMarie
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I remember watching the Mary Tyler Moore show. My favorite 70’s show was Mork and Mindy’s 1st season. That was hilarious.
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I remember Mork and Mindy too – ah, the oldies but goodies 🙂
AnnMarie
Have a great week!
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I just finished reading Atto Run! I enjoyed it very much and it perfectly timed to help me get through this cold I’ve caught. As soon as I’ve got the energy I’ll gladly post a review on Amazon.
Such a rare pleasure is the story that is unpredictable and so enjoyable in the nature if its characters and turns!
I’ve lost track of the post where you originally pointed me to your book, but I’m so glad to have found it. I look forward to more!
And thank you for the comfort, companionship, and distraction of a good book while I was feeling so crappy! It helps!
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For some reason, I don’t get notifications when someone posts on my home page. Please forgive the lateness of getting back to you.
Thanks so much for reading Atto Run. I would love it if you could post a review on Amazon and I’m happy that my book provided a distraction (and perhaps a smile or 2) while you were feeling crappy. 🙂
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Can’t beat a good rant!
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…and nothing can be as therapeutic. 🙂
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Haha its tough to believe that you are a dyslexic person. No NO NO! Your words are awesome and you had me cracking smiles all the way till I burst into laughter at the thought of a turtle trying to cross a freeway!! Awesome analogies and use of fun words.. Love your blog already. Look forward to read more. Right now off to work. 😐 Have a wonderful day 🙂
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For some reason, I don’t get emails when my “about” page is read. My apologise for not getting back to you sooner.
The dyslexia is mild and affects the way I see words and number, but I have holes in the visual field. The more I read, the less of the screen I see. There are days when every word looks like tiny pieces of spaghetti thrown around like a game of pick-up-sticks. Using a text reader prevents migraines and helps me to remember what I read.
Thanks for choosing to read my blog. It’s hard to know what my fingers are going to throw onto the screen next. 🙂
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I may be late in asking you, but do you have a preference for pen name on your flash fiction at Carrot Ranch? I love your approach to writing and your contributions at the ranch!
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Thanks for asking. It’s either Joelle LeGendre or FloridaBorne. 🙂
I enjoy writing flash fiction in 99 words..
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I’ll stay with consistency, but correct the gap! FloridaBorne.
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Joelle
We really did not get your entry…
You can email it directly to me…
~Jules from Carrot Ranch
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I sent you an email conformation that I received your entry.
You need to open that, please.
Check your spam folder 😉
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My son is dyslexic. It’s tough at times, especially when your mother is a writer/editor. But my son learned to read to read to his daughter as a baby. That baby is now 17 and in college! Love makes it all work, and I love Sci-Fi. I will investigate further.
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Oh, at my age, I’m just getting into Flash Fiction! The novel writer … Lol What fun!
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Sorry to get back to you so late. Been dealing with a tooth/sinus/bronchitis train-wreck (yes, there’s a post about that) and not paying attention to comments.
It’s tough being the mom of someone with dyslexia. I know it was tough on my mother. Back then it had no name –and the doctors she took me to didn’t seem to know about Tourette’s, either. When I was 21, dyslexia was called “minimal brain damage.” But childhood for me had passed by. She felf so much guilt until the day she died for not knowing what to do, and for believing the so-called “doctors” who charged her a fortune to give her the worst kind of “diagnoses.”
As a mother of a 40 & 42 year old, I know how much guilt comes with, “If only I had…”
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There are so many things they know now that they didn’t know them. My son is 43. Since I communicated with you, my life has been devastating. My husband of 5 years, been with him 17 years, died very quickly and unexpectedly of a massive coronary on April 9th 2018, just last week. I am trying to keep everything together, but I am so sad. He was a good man and is dwelling with the angels and God now. There is a tribute and blog on our life together along with our last day posted at this time which says all I’m having trouble saying right now. Blessings to you and your sons.
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I lost my 2nd husband. Words cannot express…
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As long as you can sing in the rain dear lady, your heart will love you 😀 ❤️ 🙏🏽 🦋
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Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve looked at my “about” page. Thank you for your inspirational words.
I usually sing in the car, where no one can scream when they hear how badly I miss the notes. 😊
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Hi this is a great about page it really displays you…I like it here can I stay? 🙂
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Absolutely! You are a welcome visitor to my humble blog home. 😊
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Same here too 💜
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