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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Poems & NaNo & Blogit, oh, my!

Yesterday I wanted to get right on my NaNoWriMo thing, but I'm so used to starting my day on Blogit... So I read a few faves and clicked on a couple others, and posted my Margarita poem before heading to Word and putting the next few hundred words of the new novel on the page. Day 1: an intro to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 2, 2012

NaNoWriMo total for Day 1: 2805 words - an old poem follows

MARGARITA Unseen, from a porch in a dusty village in Mexico someone strums a single guitar. Calling notes mingle with the scent of rain-dappled dust and the heady sweetness of tropical flowers blooming at moonrise. The caressing breeze stirs against my bare arms, stirs my own liquid response. He... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

A Piece of the Sky

Blackbird loves shiny things. She thinks they are pieces of the sky, and so picks up dimes and spoons and tinfoil bits. It's her intent to give them back to the sky, but she has not yet learned to fly high enough, so she keeps them safely in her nest. Blackbird sees a woman walking on the bottom,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

According to the political ads

every candidate is a scoundrel or worse, there are bodies buried in every basement and dastardly deeds, outright criminal and dangerous things going on. Every one will steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes and spend it on bridges to nowhere because they've got a cousin in the construction... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The usual blather is lost to me this morning

My mind is on the storm, the Frankenstorm that's tearing up the east coast, moving north. Former Blogiteer known as Whinge, an Irish girl transplanted to New Jersey with her hubby and two young daughters -- now a Facebook friend - is right there in the center of the storm. Her older taughter had a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 29, 2012

DSM TCH made me think about the debate question I'd rather forget:

Mr. Romney's declaration that President Obama has dodged questions about what happened in Benghazi. What did he know, when did he know it? The GOP candidate shakes his fist and threatens war... a wannabe leader with no sense of history, no interest in the 47% who would be cannon fodder. He wants to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Since Halloween is almost here, a teeny tiny story...

Discarding Merlin I carpooled with Merry Anne while my piece of crap Subaru was in the shop for an overhaul, and the trip was, to put it politely, interesting. She asked me to take the back seat, because the front passenger spot was reserved for Merlin. So I climbed in the back, feeling like Ms.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Reading Aloud

I was number 11 on the list of 23 readers at Coffee Heaven's open mike last night. Actually the open mike was the idea of the University's English department, and the readers included a few undergrads, a couple grad students and half a dozen or so professors, a few of whom are published authors, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Don't worry, it's not about politics.

It's about voting. My mother was fourteen when women in the US got the right to vote. She probably made it to the polls some time after her first child was born - she was married at 16, my sis was born when Mom was 19. All I know for sure is that she never missed an election during all the years I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

I just realized why so many ultra-conservative candidates don't get it.

It's not their fault, really. Their church-run high schools didn't (do not) believe in sex education. Their instructors didn't talk about biology -- about changes in the body, about hormones or cycles or even about what naked bodies look like. Their teachers avoided any subject that might make the... Sign in to see full entry.

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