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bernadette-moyer's picture
Dec.14.2012
Why Should I Want to Know You By Bernadette A. Moyer An actress auditioning for a part was asked, “Why should I want to know you?” When I heard this I immediately thought, wow! What a great question, imagine if every person who crossed our path we asked ourselves, “Why should I want to know you?”...
bob-mustin's picture
Jun.07.2012
  I once thought of myself as a poet. I'm not sure now whether I thought this was a way into girls' hearts, or whether some stray muse had captured my heart. But as more than one poet has claimed, verse rarely strays from one of two subjects: love and death. So I moved on. Short...
deniseWhite's picture
Mar.06.2011
Impermanence; clear your mind and write about it.  You sit still and focus on the nothingness about you, five, ten, time passes; the muse speaks and you begin to write.  Has your mind focused on a single object and left all the background noise in a blur, like a wide aperture lens opening or are...
priscilla-hodgkins's picture
Mar.28.2010
Instructions: go with gut, not ten favorites or ten best, but ten that affected how you think about the world and see yourself in it, as described in article by Ross Douthat in NYT March 25, 2020 http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/the-influential-books-game/?ref=books   This is an engaging...