Monday, May 21, 2007
FROM WHERE DO YOUR POEMS COME? HOW DO THEY BEGIN? DO THEY COME TO YOU...
OR DO YOU GO LOOKING FOR THEM... I usually have a word or a line, sometimes a verse, suddenly appear in my mind These words seem to roll around and around in my head...sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for several days. When the words are persistent, when I can't stop thinking about them, I...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
GOOD FRIENDS, A SPECIAL OCCASION, AND A BOTTLE OF CHATEAU LATOUR '62
Max and I were traveling light when we met. I didn' t have the heart or the stomach for having to go to court to get from my twenty+ year marriage what was fair and equitable...I expected my former spouse to take care of me, and do the right thing/s. I was so disappointed,and heartbroken when he...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
I MISS .DAVE. HE HAS BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO ME IN MY WRITING SO MANY TIMES
Do you remember.Dave.'s Dimericks? I wrote a poem about them in July of last year, "WHAT IS THE WORTH OF A DIMERICK" and dedicated the post to their extremely talented creator. I have really missed.Dave. since my return, but I'm very happy that his absence seems to be attributed to growing demand...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
OUR WINTER GUESTS ARE LEAVING...WE WILL NOT INVITE THEM AGAIN NEXT FALL
It's not that I don't like having guests, it's just that I don't like having them spend the winter with us every year. They have a private entry, they're fairly quiet, they never come downstairs...if they did, that would have ripped our relationship years ago! All in all, we've enjoyed a warmer than...
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Monday, May 14, 2007
WHEN MY SONS COMES TO VISIT, I ALWAYS MAKE BROWNIES...
My older son loves them iced with chocolate frosting; my younger son has to have peanut butter frosting. When they visit at the same time, I cover half with chocolate frosting, and the other half with peanut butter frosting! Max doesn't care which son visits...he loves them both...uh, my sons and...
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Friday, May 11, 2007
THE MACRO AND MICRO...FEAST AND FAMINE...IT'S THERE OR IT AIN'T...
Think BIG and make no small plans...and write BIG, lush, no-can-put-down stories...page-turners that will surely soon be discovered...and published! O.K., I'm awake now, but that's my default position, and I'm aspiring to it! Of course, I could find myself in retro mode where I've been for the past...
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