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Apr.23.2012
For months now I’ve been on the quest for the perfect to-do list. From where I’m sitting at my desk right now, I can see five different lists I've tried out. Three of them came from templates I found on Pinterest. One is my list for updating my online sites (19 of them at the...
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Apr.20.2012
Loren Rhoads's Reviews > The Haunted Mansion Project - Year OneThe Haunted Mansion Project - Year One by E. S. Magill (editor) Loren Rhoads's review Apr 20, 2012bookshelves: morbid-books Read from April 01 to 05, 2012Two years ago, Rain Graves invited a...
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Apr.19.2012
I’ve made a notebook on Blurb for you to record your spring cemetery adventures. It’s illustrated with my photographs from my Cemetery Travel blog, but has plenty of space for your own notes and ideas.
You can see a sample of it here.
You can order a copy of your own here: Cemetery...
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Apr.13.2012
After I paid for the Haunted Mansion retreat, I worried what I’d do if the mansion really was haunted. I wouldn’t be able to drive up to the mansion for the long weekend, since I couldn’t leave my family without a car. If I caught a ride with a stranger, I would be trapped at the...
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Apr.10.2012
I was standing in line for Star Tours at Disneyland last October when I got the email inviting me to speak at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. It was the best birthday present I could imagine.
I've been attending lectures at the cemetery since the very first one 13 years ago. I've learned an...
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Mar.26.2012
Here is my schedule for WHC2012 in Salt Lake City March 29-April 1. I’m waiting to hear when the daytime tour of the Salt Lake City Cemetery will be. I’m also planning an excursion to Brigham Young Cemetery, to see the graves of the founder of Utah and five of his wives....
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Mar.23.2012
Their initial email said:
Thank you for sending us your work. We appreciate the chance to consider it. Unfortunately it does not fit our editorial needs at this time.
We enjoyed the concept of the essay and hope you might consider sending a revision.
Sincerely, The...
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Mar.08.2012
I feel like I lost most of February to health concerns. I started the month with my annual appointment. Chief of my concerns was the side effects of my blood pressure medications. They kept me from sleeping. They kept me from exercising. Starting in January, they were making my hair fall out....
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Mar.05.2012
I took an amazing class at the Teahouse Studio (www.teahouseartstudio.com) on Saturday. This one was about Adobe Lightroom, which is replacing Photoshop to organize and edit photos.
I am excited to start working with it. I have photos on my phone, on my camera, on my husband’s...
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Mar.02.2012
I met Ivory Madison in October 2004 when I was a new mom with a colicky preemie. Before the baby came, I nourished fantasies of spinning out novels while she slept. Afterward, I learned to use naptime to shower or try to pick up or wash the endless loads of laundry. Ivory saved my...
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Feb.28.2012
Seth Godin wrote this morning that the Apple store is refusing to carry his new manifesto on education BECAUSE it links to hardcover books sold through Amazon.
Here's the whole story: http://www.thedominoproject.com/2012/02/who-decides.html
It's of interest to me now because I'm preparing my...
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Feb.26.2012
This comes from Justine Musk's amazing blog Tribal Writer:
"There’s a theory that the fear of public speaking – the most common phobia out there – has its roots in the ancient survival instinct.
"If you were out on the plains, and you felt eyes trained on you, chances were it was someone or...
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Feb.17.2012
My mom was a firm believer in naps, mostly because she was a young mother with two small kids who also taught 9th grade English. She hadn't reconciled the fact that requiring students to write papers meant she had to find quiet time to read them. The workload wore her out.
I was 5 and...
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Feb.09.2012
My dear friend Martha Allard had some wonderful things to say about the writers group we grew up in and the importance of hearing your own work read aloud. Here's the link: http://wherethefallenland.blogspot.com/2012/02/rhythm.html
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Feb.04.2012
"Thinking improves when parts of the mind are given other tasks: charged with listening to music, for example, or following a line of trees. The music or the view distracts for a time that nervous, censorious, practical part of the mind which is inclined to shut down when it notices...
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Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. Curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. It is a way to affect change -- even to initiate global change -- on a personal level.”
—Loren's introduction to Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
About Loren
For 10 years, I edited the nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Scribner published Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues in 2009. Now I'm blogging about graveyards as travel destinations at Cemetery Travel (http://cemeterytravel.com). A collection of my cemetery...
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Loren’s Favorite Books
Tinker at Pilgrim Creek, A Natural History of the Senses, How We Die, Something Wicked This Way Comes, American Gods, The Bloody Chamber, Owls Hoot in the...
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