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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Charity clothing drive next week... Woo! Hoo!

Who says the Universe isn't paying attention? Few days ago I realized things are taking over my space. Good clothes I can't wear because I've either gotten fat or shrunk back a size. Gifts I will not be using -- home decor items, Yankee candles, serving bowls, etc. Battenburg lace curtains I loved... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The debate is fifty years old.

It's one of those days when I can't think of anything humorous or interesting to say. I'm stressed out about the political campaign, about the gun-carrying creeps running the neighborhoods and shooting up campuses. I'm fighting a headache and the urge to lash out at people who cross my path. So I'm... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 2, 2012

At the Y M C A

I met this cute sailor at the YMCA, years before the song hit the charts, long before it became part of the repertoire for wedding receptions where everyone from toddlers in tuxes to great aunties in flowered dresses pantomimed Y M C A with their fluttery arms flapping above their heads... I was a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Ladies of the Club...

We met Five-ish at Books-A-Million. I got there early, bought the 2012 version of "Writers Market" because I've made a resolution to sell something or know why not... and a copy of Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere." I just discovered the poet Adrienne Rich, and now she's gone, so I decided not to let grass... Sign in to see full entry.

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Poet dies..

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (from an AP obit) Poet Adrienne Rich has died. She was 82. Her son, Pablo Conrad, said she died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis. She had lived in Santa Cruz since the 1980s. Sign in to see full entry.

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Email, etc.

Sent a copy of yesterday's blog to my kids -- heard back from two of them about the Packard story. Son J wants more. So maybe I'll write something about the the time a horse ran away with me, or that day I went up into the free range country with a friend of mine to do a head count on cattle the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 31, 2012

...for a new Packard and a TV?

The summer before I turned eighteen I had my usual job: picking strawberries for a grower in a valley a couple miles from our house in Salkum. Our whole family worked during the two weeks or so in June when the berries ripened. We got a nickel a quart and we ate some. Too ripe to ship, they were... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 30, 2012

"The world will little note, nor long remember..."

We didn't know when we were smart-a$$ little punks at thirteen we were engaged in a power struggle with authority figures. We didn't label it, hadn't been through counseling to learn the lingo. At the time we just thought it was fun to shock a grownup with some obnoxious comment. We had our own... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

I'll tell you the ending tomorrow... but first today's verse

IN ADVANCE OF MOTHER'S DAY It's true, mama doesn’t criticize dust bunnies any more or grab a rag and polish smudges from my cupboard door She didn’t tell me when I married she thought the guy was wrong but five years-two kids later claimed she’d known it all along She doesn’t tell me now to sit up... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Research -- it's what we do in Blogitville

Since you talked about the time-consuming, negative aspects of research that can discourage a writer from actually telling a story, I have to confess it ain't that bad. We all do research, although we don't call it that. Wiley talks about his first years on the job, about learning the printer's... Sign in to see full entry.

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