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Feb.17.2008
Last night at dinner, my friend and I were talking about the after-life. We talked about signs from the dead, looking for signs. Wanting those signs and not receiving any. “The dead don’t speak. At least not to me,” said a character in a movie I watched recently.
But the dead have spoken to me...
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Feb.16.2008
When the weather changes to warm and sunny, I start jogging again at the Lafayette Reservoir. It's a beautiful place to be, the green grassy hills, the great oaks, and the gang of geese hanging around the watering hole. Sometimes I take two spins around the Reservoir, so that's six miles. For...
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Feb.15.2008
My husband is a chef, so we never celebrate Valentine’s Day on Valentine’s Day. He is busy cooking for the lovers. So we’re celebrating on Sunday instead.
It took a long time to meet my husband. It took white and black magic. It took prayers and therapy. It took forgiveness. It took waking up alone...
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Feb.14.2008
I have never blogged before. I'm a blog virgin, which sounds ponderous or like a frog with indigestion and no experience. But you have to start somewhere, and when I first began writing, I started with what was in front of me: the rain. I wrote my first poem when I was around ten years old and...
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About Susan
Born in Long Beach, California, Susan Browne has lived most of her life in the Bay Area. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Subtropics, River City, The Mississippi Review, Gargoyle, Margie, American Life in Poetry, and other literary journals and...
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Causes Susan Browne Supports
Unicef
Amnesty International
Run Together, A Race to Raise Money for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society