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Jun.14.2008
A few moments up from the basement room I'm cleaning out this weekend, breathing not easily from the dust. But in my hand, a salvaged poem I wrote in 1997.
Eleven years ago. A partially/somewhat different me. (Not sure of the last time I even wrote a poem... oh yes, a poetry workshop shortly...
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Jun.13.2008
I'm distracted. Or maybe I'm always this spacey, I just usually have Bill to keep me in check. Bill, check... funny how you can ask for the bill or ask for the check or...oh wait, where was I? Right. Spacey.
Anyway. Today I got my third parking ticket in a month. Not cheap ones, either. Two were...
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Jun.12.2008
So this is how I spend my evenings when my husband is on the other side of the world. Check it out. If you're going to be an ass, might as well be a big one, I always say. (And no comments about Spanx, please.)
http://www.redroom.com/video/visit-me-red-room
In answer to your questions:
Took...
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Jun.12.2008
I've been a blog addict for years now. I justify this by the fact that I don't watch TV. No, I mean it. No TV. Why should I watch TV when I have my own soap operas -- real ones -- to read about every day?
Here's a linked list of 15 of my favorite reads. (My bloglines has close to 80.) Some are...
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Jun.11.2008
Guess who royally blew it? Guess who had two tickets booked to Guadalajara next week? Guess who writes books and articles and serves as an "expert" on traveling with kids? Guess who forgot the crucial detail that a parent traveling solo with a minor child to Mexico needs a notarized...
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Jun.10.2008
Anybody who knows me for more than five minutes knows that I love to eat. And since I'm as obsessed with words as I am food, it won't surprise you that I'm deeply into menus. There's some amazing -- and some scary -- writing that happens on menus, and sometimes prose so purple you expect Prince...
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Jun.09.2008
Last night I was at a meeting of writers -- good ones, successful ones -- and the conversation (as usual) took a brief but precipitous plunge into despair about the marketplace, the question of how to continue in the face of rejection, etc.
We pulled it back up, with a stern reminder to ourselves...
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Jun.08.2008
For years I lost at Monopoly on purpose; trying to win seemed desperate and unseemly. I've never played team sports, opting for dance and yoga and hiking and collaborative games. It took me nine years to get my BA because I kept dropping out, and my college transcript is a mess of As and Ws,...
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Jun.07.2008
Once upon a time I had a personal blog, one of those freebies. I used a nom de plume, I obfuscated my location and personal details, and nobody read it, and I was glad.
I'm even happier that nobody read it now. I went back to find it this morning, and to my horror, I've forgotten my password to...
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Jun.06.2008
I woke in the night with a jolt -- literally -- a 3.5 minor earthquake near Alamo, California. As is my geeky-earthquake wont, my young dog still barking and running up and down the stairs, I immediately went to the USGS website to fill out a Did You Feel It report.
But with that jolt came the...
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Jun.05.2008
Well, it's happened -- it's not the first time, and it won't be the last time. Something I wrote made a number of people uncomfortable, and I've heard about it. Boy, have I heard about it. My email inbox is burning up.
Because I'm not just a snark, I'm actually a generally sweet snark who likes to...
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Jun.04.2008
Our Fearless Huntington Sharp not ONLY is a big time video star, but he also throws down a mean meme. Check him out here! Now, I've picked up the challenge...
ME FROM A TO ZA is for age: 47
B is for beer of choice: Not big on the beer -- I like GOOD stuff. Not from a can. You're buying? You choose...
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Jun.03.2008
I love to read out loud, and I love being read to. We come from thousands of years of oral tradition, and it's deep in our souls. Hearing stories is how we learn. Hearing stories takes us places.
I love hearing short stories performed on the radio. I love going to readings (though I don't much care...
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Jun.02.2008
"I ran feral for five or six years in my early twenties. These are years my family knows little about. Oh, I sometimes share a few impressive incidents here and there: the solo bike ride across France against Le Mistral wind; my year as a topless dancer and drink hustler in San Francisco; that...
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Jun.01.2008
What is it like to love an elephant? What is it like to have one in the house? And why would you give him whatever he wants?
I've just posted "Whatever He Wants," a short story of mine -- please read and enjoy. It's a contemporary retelling of the children's book Babar, The Little...
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About Ericka
Ericka Lutz writes fiction (short and long), non-fiction (creative and commercial), and performance pieces. She's the author of the novel, The Edge of Maybe (March 2012), many short stories, columns, personal essays, and advice books. With a B.A. in...
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