Comments on: New opportunities http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/ Writing in all its forms Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Patricia Anderson http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-1312 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:57:54 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-1312 My son has a genetically enhanced sense of smell, poor thing. I thought mine was bad enough, but his is far more sensitive. I have been able to learn how to ignore things. For example, I can tell food is on its way to spoiling days or over a week before other folk, and I have learned that it isn't spoiled yet and I should just shut up and eat it. My son can't do that. So his food preferences are very simple flavors, nothing complex, no blends of foods, almost no spices -- single items, single flavors, fresh, nothing strong. And talk about body odor? He can tell particular odors from far away, and can tell someone is going to, well, ahem (gas) before they even do the deed. He will walk with his head swathed in clean cloth as a way to filter what he is smelling. As a woman, I can get away with that a little easier -- I wear scarves almost year-round, and will just lift them over the lower half of my face when necessary. My son has a genetically enhanced sense of smell, poor thing. I thought mine was bad enough, but his is far more sensitive. I have been able to learn how to ignore things. For example, I can tell food is on its way to spoiling days or over a week before other folk, and I have learned that it isn’t spoiled yet and I should just shut up and eat it. My son can’t do that. So his food preferences are very simple flavors, nothing complex, no blends of foods, almost no spices — single items, single flavors, fresh, nothing strong. And talk about body odor? He can tell particular odors from far away, and can tell someone is going to, well, ahem (gas) before they even do the deed. He will walk with his head swathed in clean cloth as a way to filter what he is smelling. As a woman, I can get away with that a little easier — I wear scarves almost year-round, and will just lift them over the lower half of my face when necessary.

]]> by: Alyssa http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-299 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:24:16 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-299 Hey Sandra, congrats - this seems like a big deal. What's a continuity, though? Hey Sandra, congrats - this seems like a big deal. What’s a continuity, though?

]]> by: Sandra http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-298 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:08:09 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-298 Thanks for the votes of confidence, Laura, Mariann, and Karm! Whew! This is going to be tough -- but fun. Karm, you've got a great point there. One of my CPs suggested my poor heroine had to grow up playing "Name That Stink" and I almost fell on the floor laughing. Too right. That one trait alone seems to include a lot of built-in humor... and angst. It's our sense of smell that carries our strongest memories because smell bypasses our cognitive brain functions -- goes straight to the emotional center. So I'm seeing lots of potential there. Thanks for the votes of confidence, Laura, Mariann, and Karm! Whew! This is going to be tough — but fun.

Karm, you’ve got a great point there. One of my CPs suggested my poor heroine had to grow up playing “Name That Stink” and I almost fell on the floor laughing. Too right.

That one trait alone seems to include a lot of built-in humor… and angst. It’s our sense of smell that carries our strongest memories because smell bypasses our cognitive brain functions — goes straight to the emotional center.

So I’m seeing lots of potential there.

]]> by: Karmela Johnson http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-297 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:51:26 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-297 Whoa. An enhanced sense of smell? Talk about an anti-superpower. My sense of smell is probably the one sense I don't WANT enhanced because I'm already so sensitive to it. Smells have the ability to turn me on/off to a person, enhance a mood, and distract me to no end (I can tune out noise and visuals but not smells). I'm already betting that your heroine hates that particular superpower of hers. Good luck and I can't wait to read more of the Athena Class of '07! Whoa. An enhanced sense of smell? Talk about an anti-superpower. My sense of smell is probably the one sense I don’t WANT enhanced because I’m already so sensitive to it. Smells have the ability to turn me on/off to a person, enhance a mood, and distract me to no end (I can tune out noise and visuals but not smells). I’m already betting that your heroine hates that particular superpower of hers.

Good luck and I can’t wait to read more of the Athena Class of ‘07!

]]> by: Mariann http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-296 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:31:27 +0000 http://www.sandrakmoore.com/blog/2006/03/new-opportunities/#comment-296 Congratulations!! Congratulations!!

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