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Yesterday my friend Robo-Flaime came up with a new word to describe my Diet Coke habit. Chain-Cokeing.

Chain-Cokeing [cheyn-kohking], verb, – To drink Coke continuously, as by cracking the next bottle in anticipation of completing the first. (Related forms – Chain-Coker.)

Other interesting phrases from our conversation:

• Well, The Plague was pretty bad. (Yes, as in The Black Plague.)
• I’m a black moth.
• I only like the fancy pigeons.
• We can, but it’s not productive.
• I like the ones with feathers on their feet.

Thanks for the break from life Robo-Flaime.

Writing Exercise:

I’ve been thinking about faith a lot lately.  I’ve been reading Speaker for the Dead, and considering how I could add more faith into my writing.  Not because I’m a deeply religious person but because I see how deeply faith effects and motivates people.  But what is faith?  I know that despite the absence of formal religion in my life I have a deep sense of faith.  Maybe not in the traditional way, but I believe things deeply and I think that counts. 

So, for today’s exercise join me in considering faith.  Do a mind map for the word and see what it means to you then spend thirty minutes defining faith.  Your work could be a short essay, a letter explaining your view of faith to a child or even a short story about someone finding faith in something (themselves, a religion, another person, whatever).  Happy writing.