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Thursday, October 4, 2012

double posts in the comments sector: sorry about that

As I was posting a comment to DSM TCH's blog about the election debate, my words seemed to evaporate into the web.. So I tried to replace the disappeared bit. A second later I realized both were there in all their ridiculous redundancy... along with several other other new comments and responses.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

My Island

I used to have an imaginary island, warm white sand with lace-edged wavelets caressing its small boundaries. At night the water was black velvet in the moonlight. In the daytime it looked green and blue and there were flowers blooming in an infinite variety of colors. There was a small hill on the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

An excerpt from my Blonde Theory of Everything...

Forever ago, even before the printing press was developed by a guy named Gutenberg and changed the art of storytelling, taking stories out of the hands of grandfathers dramatizing the old tales to kids gathered around him, to printed pages that could be bought and sold, traded, hauled over mountains... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 1, 2012

Where to find inspiration - or a total creative block

Don't stand looking at yourself in the mirror. But you do have to look at yourself, writer, look at what you do to keep yourself from shining, from outing that secret soul you are under the facade, inside the roles you play for the benefit of co-workers, friends, family. As Nelson Mandela once said,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Timeless Moon

The timeless moon was full last night, and when I stepped out the kitchen door onto the deck, there was enough light to read by. The harvest moon, September, the first full moon of autumn, reminded me of how it was one June night fifty years ago, when we saw how the light lay across the recently... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

I posted this a couple days ago & deleted. So here 'tis

Eastwick Writers??? As a joke I suggested to Jo Ann we call our writerly women's group the "Eastwick Writers." She grinned and said you think we're a bunch of witches. I said I've been called worse. At some point after all of us finally got there, we talked briefly about Big John who was in the old... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 28, 2012

"Thanks for all the fish," to quote Douglas Adams.

Remember "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, and his subsequent novels "Restaurant at The End of the Universe," and etc. In one mad scene toward the end, all the dolphins returned to their home planet, singing as they were beamed up from the ocean depths, "Thanks for all the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

I used to do some thinking: from 2002, Seattle...

Morning Pages #2 Woke up around five thought I heard something around the house in the kitchen maybe pup or kitten making small vocals but as my ears woke up I knew it must have been my dream remnant coming up out of the other dimension. Thought of Klaus & how he must have been before the accident,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Overnight storms, lots of rain

This area has a weather system hovering now -- rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Is it just me, or do storms this year seem to carry a lot more lightning than they used to? Maybe it's just the TV weatherman's better mapping, but those graphics show a lot of lightning strikes, they cover the whole... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Tuesday. Six more weeks of election season...

Six long weeks of empty rhetoric, six long weeks of pointing fingers and looking for slips next to an open microphone, six weeks of negative ads every ten minutes, six endless weeks of pundits pulling apart and spinning the straw words of candidates and their kissin' cousins into media gold. I can... Sign in to see full entry.

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