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May.23.2013
In 1907, Marion Nicholson of Threshold Girl the Amazon e-book was in her first year of teaching at Sherbrooke High. She had graduated in Spring 1906 and worked at a summer school in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
She was 18.
She had been an ambitions student,...
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Mar.30.2013
Hello everyone. Today’s post focuses on you, my readers. You‘ve made it through a rough winter, and soon, instead of wearing a heavy coat while outside, you will be wearing suntan oil instead, as you frolic on the beach! But what is going on inside your body – specifically your mind...
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Jan.28.2013
I recently spent an hour with my friend and fellow journal writer, @DawnHerring chatting about journaling #JournalChat. Dawn hosts these Twitter chats every Thursday at two o’clock Pacific time. I hadn’t participated for the last few weeks, so it was good to be back. The topic was...
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Jul.02.2012
photo: Farmer's Wife in Clogs, 1892 by Louis Roy, from 1st-art-gallery.com
Check out this website, 1892farmwife.blogspot.com. As the link suggests, it's a diary of a Maine farmer's wife in 1892. Doesn't sound interesting? Well, I thought so, too, but since I was doing...
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May.25.2012
Do you remember your first dairy? Perhaps it was pink with flowers and given to you as a little girl to record your hopes and dreams. Or maybe you were a teenager and your best friend gifted it to you for secrets too private for even her to hear. Or it could have been your first love...
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Apr.27.2012
So I get on the Marta train this morning, and this old man sitting opposite me, clearly drunk, squints at me and says, "How old are you?"
It's an amazing question, because today is my birthday. So I answer, and he is incredulous.
"That would make you older than me, and I look like shit."
"Um...
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Mar.19.2012
I’m almost tempted to say that Dostoevsky became the first blogger when he decided to publish a monthly diary, paid for by subscriptions, in 1873. This literary experiment includes everything from letters, literary battles, and short stories to fragments of poems, recollections...
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Feb.04.2012
Several years ago I wrote a short story for one of the writing contests run by the online writer's group, Backspace. That story, "Still Life With Lovers," tied for first place along with a story by my friend, author A.S. King. The story has sat on my hard drive for several years now, whispering for...
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Jan.01.2012
During this day, Macresarf1 began to gather his thoughts for a diary/journal covering what will no doubt be a crucial year in the life of his family and in the history of his nation. What would be left 350 days from now? The end of 2011 had been hard. Illness was abroad in his family....
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Mar.09.2011
I have an interest in - and a soft spot for - witches. There are many reasons for this, being an author who oft delves into the supernatural - though my only 'witch' character was a warlock. And I have known some ladies who claimed more than just their bewitching ways. However, I do take an added...
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