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Oct.18.2010 - 2:13 pm
Gardens Gone
When I left the marriage household a few weeks ago I said goodbye to family walls with family portraits, to familiar airs and aromas, to dogs and fences; I said goodbye to...
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Feb.05.2010 - 9:58 am
Kafka
Franz Kafka "toiled diligently at a series of office jobs that didn't allow him enough time to write." That's my excuse.  Except for the toiling diligently part.  I have...
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Jan.14.2010 - 5:59 pm
The Theme Would Be My Favorite Poem
An appreciation of poetry was not taught in the public schools I went to.  Poetry was school assignments, pencil marks in old textbooks, strings of words better put into...
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Jan.07.2010 - 10:42 pm
I do not know what this is about
I get a weekly email exhorting me to write about a particular topic.  So far the topics have not been inspiring.  Tonight I have logged in for the first time in months, and...
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Jan.14.2010 - 9:22 pm
In response to: In Their Gray Visions
This is fantastic
Indeed I'm nearly speechless. I guess it's silly to write that because I could just wait until it passes. Anyway,...
Jan.14.2010 - 7:19 pm
In response to: That which I do
Focus
Focus is the first word that came to mind. My father knew he wanted to be a chemist since he was thirteen, and so he...
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Child of 1960s and 1970s Berkeley, fled for the suburbs, I now work for a major corporation and am in desperate search for the shriveled remains of my soul.
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