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May.06.2011 - 4:37 am
Like Breathing
Technically, I'm a paid writer. I write informational articles on topics ranging from clogged toilets to diesel exhaust at a flat rate of $16 per article. In the past year, nearly...
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Mar.17.2011 - 11:04 am
Chicken
"Why did the chicken cross the road?" It's the proverbial bad joke that's been part of the English lexicon since its publication in the 1847 issue of The Knickerbocker,...
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Feb.11.2011 - 6:10 am
Finding Contentment
Most days when I sit by my computer, I can imagine that we're wealthy. I look out the window, the one just behind my computer monitor, and watch the deer stripping leaves off the...
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Feb.02.2011 - 9:23 am
Permission
I lost my three children ten years ago after a contentious custody battle. The judge's decision came down two weeks before the World Trade Center crumbled in a pile of smoldering...
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Poem: Written With Children
Poem: Sunday Morning
Poem: Chains That Bind

Comments from Merle

Feb.11.2011 - 11:13 am
In response to: Finding Contentment
Gratitude
Thanks for reading, Barb! Contentment is liberating, wouldn't you say?
Feb.11.2011 - 5:37 am
In response to: Richer and Poorer
Yes...it's the real stuff
You nailed marriage, especially an army marriage. When they come home from combat scarred, how do you find the kernel...
Feb.05.2011 - 9:17 pm
In response to: Permission
Life is a dance
Thanks so much for taking the time to read and share your thoughts!  
Sep.27.2009 - 6:45 pm
In response to: I Knew You Wouldn't Come
Exquisite Descriptions
I think you pegged that "aha" moment when faulty relationships can take a one-eighty. There are sometimes...
Sep.27.2009 - 7:22 am
In response to: Great News for Writers Who Have Nothing to Say!
Very funny satirical post. . .
Perhaps the publishers are simply trying to find a profitable venue where they can publish memoirs but can avoid...
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Merle Huerta is an adjunct instructor in English and English Skills at SUNY Rockland, a freelance instructional designer, an army chaplain's wife, a mother of a blended family of thirteen children, a triage nurse, a therapist, a short-order cook, a...
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