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Jan.15.2010
Hi, there,
Only a week left to register for this term's classes at the Writing Salon!
INTRO TO PERSONAL ESSAYS: Ready, Get Set, Go!
Five Saturdays, Feb. 27-March 27, 2-4:30 p.m. San Francisco
$185 members/$215 others
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INTRO...
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Jan.07.2010
My mind is distilled by the raising of paramount perceptions. I will not close this book.
To have one’s excellence debased is merely living life watered down. I refuse.
Now, I am bloating a sign of an avowed balance. I am compelled to deliberate the crossroads of harmony to resurrect a not...
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Jan.01.2010
Even in its beginnings "happiness" points back to the self. It originally came from the middle English hap--which means "lucky"--and also relates to "haphazard." In the dictionary it has a range of meanings from "blessed" to "tickled pink." ...
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Oct.24.2009
I have been counting down til time to start writing on my novel for NANO. Seven days!!!!! I have been waiting like one should inspite the fact that I am dying to unleash the characters that are buried deep within my brain. I will be up at 12:01 come November first. Fingers hovering over my keys and...
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Jul.21.2009
When I was a kid, I told lies to gullible baby sitters. "My Dad and Mom are divorced. My real Mom moved to Des Moines and won't tell me what she does. I think she might be an artist, but I'm not sure. I visited her once and she didn't let me see where she lived. She made me...
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Apr.27.2009
This morning my pen and I had a disagreement over a few things. I was sure that I was the one in control since I was the one holding the pen firmly in my right hand. The pen assumed it was in control because it was the one supplying the ink! She's one of those fancy blue-red-black pens. I started...
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Mar.25.2009
BECOMING A POET
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In college I never understood poetry. Certain distant acquaintances walked around in what appeared to be a kind of haze. People spoke of them, with a kind of awe, as poets. I didn't grasp their poetry, but I wanted to be spoken of that way, too!
Whether most poets begin with...
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Mar.22.2009
"How vain it is to sit down to write if you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau
As I sat in the dentist chair having my annual cleaning, the new hygienist overheard from others in the office that I was writing a book. And she asked me, “What's the book...
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Mar.05.2009
Odd that a creative discipline dependent on sight should express itself in invisibility. But that's exactly what two very different artists are doing in Vancouver. Actually, they are both trying to make us conscious of what we DON'T see. I viewed the first exhibiting artist's work at the Vancouver...
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Feb.22.2009
Again I wonder whether anything edifying, inspiring, or otherwise "alive" will ever flow from my pen or keyboard.
But then, I've been wondering that for decades now, and something always has. That's the miracle, isn't it, writers? We're sort of junkies for that creative hit. At least, I...
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