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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.20.2012
I’ve encountered many interesting animals, reptiles and birds, living in my rural area. However, I thought we all knew our place, a balancing act to live in harmony. But lately things have changed. During the night a phantom critter, or critters, have been invading my vegetable...
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Aug.29.2011
Anna Karenina – Section Two, by Leo Tolstoy
image via superstock.co.uk
Tolstoy doesn’t change horses as one might expect of an authorial dividing line between sections of this story. Keep in mind that serialized stories must be written so that each segment clings desperately to those on either...
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Oct.07.2010
After a bunch of drafts and revisions I've just finished my 100,000-word literary novel, Elegies in a Country Shoebox.
Here's a quick sketch of what it's about:
When three-year-old Ophelia stays overnight at grandmother's house she is overjoyed at being awarded...
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Oct.03.2010
Along the winnowed ditch,tangled winter thistle beardstubbled-deep valleys vaseline smoked vistas,crowded spectral fields.
Daily, coffee spatteredintercession procession:a crushed hare, a startled squirrel,victim and conquistador of thebloody tarmac shuffle.
Antler framed brow,refracted mountainous...
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Jul.29.2010
Well, little did my husband and I know we were trendsetters. I thought we were getting too old for that, but apparently not.
Anyway, it seems that moving to the country in search of a simpler way of life has caught fire amongst the Baby Boomer set, and is all of a sudden trendy. I'm even old...
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Aug.28.2009
I was recently a guest on Oregon Public Radio's program "Think Out Loud." Listen as Emily Harris and Dave Miller interview me about poetry, writing, and being a college writing instructor:
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/northwest-passages-shaindel-beers/
I hope you enjoy it!
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May.13.2009
John Burroughs, poet and author of the fabulous blog, CrisisChronicles Online, was kind enough to host me on this latest stop of my virtual book tour:
http://crisisblog.crisischronicles.com/2009/05/13/beers-to-you--poet-shaindel-visits-crisis-chronicles.aspx
Enjoy, and please take the time to...
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Apr.09.2009
Welcome to the fifth stop on my virtual book tour, an interview with Diane Lockward, on her site, Blogalicious:
http://dianelockward.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-tour-shaindel-beers.html
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Apr.02.2009
Here is my interview with Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everbody and creator of Postcard Life Stories:
http://michael-kimball.com/blog.php?id=3963451762389829038?v=2
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