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Friday, June 8, 2012

TV's "Once Upon a Time" and other Creature Features

Have you seen it? Once Upon a Time, starts out as a dark spin on the Snow White story, but it incorporates Rumplestiltskin, Alice in Wonderland and Pinocchio -- a mashup with just a touch of Law & Order thrown in. Sounds like a confusing plate of hash, but once you boil it down to the old clash... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

About Yesterday... and part 2 of Margaret & Henry

The guy who made the unkind comment on my FB page was a guy who'd been in Journalism class with me in 1980 -- he was a kid then, I was gran going back to college. I always thought he was funny if a bit odd: short, round, kind of froggy looking with horn-rim glasses, a rolling penguin-like walk.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Blog 2 today, a petty irritation that shouldn't bug me, but it does.

Ray Bradbury passed away yesterday, one of my favorite authors. I know it's just silly science fiction, and it's not like he developed a cure for cancer or something, but I admired him. I loved his way with words, especially "Fahrenheit 451." It had to do with book burning in a futuristic world... Sign in to see full entry.

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Margaret and Henry Talk it Over

On mortal earth, people look back at their mistakes and say “I wish I’d known then what I know now. I could have avoided all that heartache.” In the Seventh Dimension, they find themselves restored to youth and strength, with full memory of what they’d done for good or ill. Earth Year 1968 AD: Henry... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

CCT keeps writing these ephemeral love poems

His words a basket of mystic romanticism, a boy's sweet fantasy of untouchable beauty. In his wistful words I see that mysterious flitting beauty he dreams of. I follow his eyes as her ivory skin glows softly in moonlight, I see her floating diaphanous garment, her footprints in dewy grass. One day... Sign in to see full entry.

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Winter's reward for summer's work...

Blackberry Harvest The jelly’s from berries I picked in the yard And the syrup’s a batch that didn’t set hard If you put it on waffles or over ice cream It will put you right into a midsummer’s dream Made from juice, sugar and pectin, and boiled for a minute There’s not a preservative or additive in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 4, 2012

Taking Grandma’s Keys

How bad does it have to get before we feel justified in taking Grandma’s car keys? Having that independence, being able to come and go is a big deal. Many will fight tooth and nail to keep driving until there’s an accident or they keel over in the kitchen. It’s easier to go along and pretend... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Coming and going...

"It doesn't matter where you came from; what matters is where you're going." I'm sure that's a famous quote but I have no idea who said it. Maybe one of those feel-good gurus from Channel Nine. But the statement was in my mind as I woke up during the night; it was still there when I got up this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Rules for Writers - 1) No Sour Grapes

This old gal's having trouble this a.m. coming up with something Prof. Kropp, my creative writing teacher, would approve. In our first week of the quarter we learned how to describe a scene. Then we had an exercise in characterization. When we got our first short story assignment he had one hard and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Random Probability

I've never been a fan of math, but a statistics class I took 30-odd years ago has come in handy from time to time. The textbook was "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics." It made this dry subject a bit juicy. Later on I worked for a department at the university that did polling. From our phone bank some... Sign in to see full entry.

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