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May.28.2008
I was in New York City recently, looking for a few things for breakfast. The scone was an unusual shape - round, looking delectable, with small raisins in it. It had the roughened surface common to baked goods that contain an excessive amount of cream, a kind of velvet-like resistance here and...
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May.28.2008
The boat heaves and tosses in the grey water. Staying inside, I run the very probable risk of getting intensely seasick, so the only place for me is on the stern deck, against the railings focusing on a horizon where the slightly greyer sky met with the darker grey of the water. The fact that the...
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May.27.2008
Well, hooray! My blog from last week on visiting literary sites caught the attention of Red Room and catapaulted me to the front page. That's great, and I've got some great things planned for this week's writings and will add photos from all three books this week to fill out the photo galleries...
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May.26.2008
I have an author friend who uses the term "Wooie Wooie" (with proper emphasis on the 'ooie ooie') to describe connections which should not happen.
I have written a novel, KAFKA IN THE CASTLE, which 'fills in' his missing diary entries for two years (he either didn't write them or - more...
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May.23.2008
Well, I am still going through the page proofs for Walking Boston. I have left indexing for a moment to just work on proofing the pages. Every once in a while, I come across a sentence and wonder, "what the hell was I thinking?" It's not just that there is a type or a word missing, the...
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May.22.2008
Aside from a few discreetly placed signs, there is little to distinguish this old brown house from others in the neighborhood or proclaim its role in American literature. However, Concord’s Old Manse, former home to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne and a large jewel in Concord’s crown of...
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May.20.2008
Well, that was fast. Four weeks ago I was a waiter at a German-Austrian Bistro and living in New York, and suddenly I find myself back in my hometown and working for an internet start up? Now all I have to do is wait for my moving boxes to catch up...
The most jaw dropping experience of the last...
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May.19.2008
I began a writing task today that I have never tackled before -- no, Mom, not thank you note writing -- indexing. That's right, for Walking Boston (Wilderness Press), I am creating an index for the book. I've never had to do this before and it is fascinating thinking about what should go in and...
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May.16.2008
Congratulations to my fellow Roaring Forties Press (www.roaringfortiespress.com) author and blogger (http://aknickerson.blogspot.com/), Angela K. Nickerson. She is off on a tour of the midwest to support her wonderful new book A Journey into Michelangelo's Rome. Angela's blog, Just Go!, has all...
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May.13.2008
"Felipe!" the children called once more.
The islands in the middle of the great Paraná River were being swept over on this Christmas Day by a sudden wind, and the tall grasses seemed to undulate in the breezes, hurried into one another in soft, moving hillocks and vales.
"Felipe!...
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