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Jun.12.2013
Insomnia, although painful and annoying, has its uses.
During my extremely long night last night, I spent a fair amount of time thinkng about writing from a heroines perspective. I've known a fair number of women, I was married 17 years, so I kind of think I might have a bit of a handle on...
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Jun.11.2013
Spiritual journaling is a powerful practice, and one that is at the center of my spiritual life. Recently, I revived my journaling in order to get through a rough patch—and I’ve once again been reminded of how energizing, enlightening, and supportive it can be.
In yesterday's post, I listed 5...
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Jun.11.2013
Just a quick post to note that I'm on my way to Columbus, Ohio for the Origins convention, which has now become the unofficial beginning of summer for me--kind of like a smaller, quieter GenCon, but with lots of the same great features (great writers, many of them good friends, interesting panel...
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Jun.11.2013
The approach of Father’s Day this year started me thinking about the man who was my father. It has been years since he died, but I still miss him. As I’ve got older, I think I understand him better. My father worked hard all...
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Jun.11.2013
I've had a concept rattling around in my head for a while now.. a series set in a slightly more paranormal version of New Orleans. Not a vampire-and-werewolf-and-zombie thing, but something with a little more poppets-with-pins-stuck-in.
To this end, I've been reading up on New Orleans history...
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Jun.10.2013
For a few weeks this spring, I found myself floundering. Maybe “floundering” is too big a word. It was more like hitting a patch of ice on a path. My spiritual practice was slipping and sliding. I couldn’t get traction. I had lost my balance and had nothing to catch hold of—or thought I didn't.
Now...
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Jun.10.2013
It's Summer in Texas, and in most cases I'd be considering going out to the various festivals and fun events happening in and around Austin. But.... erm.. not this year!
First, having a still-not-100% foot is very demotivating. I can walk for about 15-20 minutes before I need a nice sit...
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Jun.10.2013
Sam & Heather are gone from The Beanery. I feel their absence as another internal tear of emotional awareness. They were not large components in my life. Barristas and students, they made my coffee and chatted about their lives. It's how they shared with open and...
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Jun.10.2013
Last month, our RWA chapter’s speaker was Chris Herndon, a retired deputy coroner. A lot of her talk was about cases she’d worked on, including graphic pictures, which doesn’t really lend itself to a pleasant blog post, but she did provide a lot of interest...
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Jun.09.2013
Blue Nights is a memoir that focuses on the terrible impact the death of Joan Didion's daughter, Quintana Roo, had on Didion--following shortly after the death of Didion's husband, John Gregory Dunn--and yet encompasses broader swaths of Didion's life and her experience of entering the frailty of...
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