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Apr.02.2013
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Serendipity is not your traditional style newsletter. It is Angel Logan's unique way of reaching out to her readers and friends – to stay in touch, to give updates on her writing career, and to share a few of the personal and professional pearls of wisdom...
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Dec.30.2012
Weary with work and years,
my father would
never make it through
to midnight and
he would
snore as the ball dropped, and on the
floral sofa --- the one with the dog-chewed arms ---
my mother would
every year nudge him,
there it is,
look it’s happening,
and he would
roll his eyes open...
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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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Jun.29.2012
Kafka spent his working life as a functionary in the bureaucratic monolith of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And when the empire disappeared - he kept his job. Yes, he was that good. One of the most recent published books of his works consist of his reports to the government about worker care. His...
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May.02.2012
Serendipity ... May 2012
WELCOME NEW AND LONG TIME SUBSCRIBERS!
Serendipity is not your traditional style newsletter. It is Angel Logan's unique way of reaching out to her readers and friends – to stay in touch, to give updates on her writing career, and to share a few of the personal and...
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Mar.06.2012
I consider myself to be a reasonable person. I am sure there are those who would disagree with me, but that's another story. Regardless, I particularly consider myself reasonable in regards to my political views. This attitude seems to be putting me at odds with the party that I...
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Oct.11.2011
Today would have been my Aunt Alice’s one-hundredth birthday. Hers was a tragic life of early widowhood and schizophrenia. Never have I known anyone braver, harder-working, or more generous --- or more under-appreciated. I write and paint on the land paid for by her young husband’...
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Sep.09.2011
Note to readers: This is the fifth in a series of blogs I am delighted to be writing for Harmony: The WomenArts Partnership Project. They will appear biweekly on the WomenArts site (when you get there, scroll down for a list of blog installments), and I will also reproduce each one here.
In this...
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Jun.21.2011
If you live in Canada and specifically Nova Scotia then south of the border is Maine. And here is a cook book which, though from down under, uses the same maritime ingredients.
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Down East Cooking
By Mark Rotella
One of the most relaxing vacations I ever spent...
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May.03.2011
A Million Miles from Boston Karen Day middle grade
This is the first book my daughter and I have reviewed together, which has been a fun experience. We read it at the same time, talked about the story, and now are collaborating on the review.
A Million Miles from Boston is a gentle summer...
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