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Love to Travel—Love to Come Home
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“Wherever you go, there you are.” ~Jon Kabat-Zinn By now it is
probably obvious that I love to travel. But what you might not realize is
th...
37 minutes ago
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Fizz to Physiognomy
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Kelvin at dVerse poetics having had a most unpleasant reaction to a
self-portrait because of his Asian appearance, asks us to consider the
Asian experien...
38 minutes ago
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Saturday Cinema / Book Review ~ Jaws
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Like dinosaurs and the solar system, sharks intrigued me at an early age.
In fact, I probably watched Jaws (and its sequels) at a too-early age (on
TV or v...
1 hour ago
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gift of summer :-) .....
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After 3
or has it been 4 (?)
really bad (cold and wet and windy) summers
and a long dark and cold winter
we were today gifted with a
*¤ summer ...
1 hour ago
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Girls Love Travis Walker by Anne Pfeffer (Book Tour and Review)
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Virtual Book Tour - April 19 - May 30
April 19 - Reading Addiction Blog Tours - Meet and Greet
April 21 - Texas Book Nook - Review
April 22...
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‘Romantische Strasse’ #18 May 2013
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Romantische Strasse – lowering the price of diesel .
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Romance/Risk Photo: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, best
preserved mediev...
2 hours ago
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How public, like a frog
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My life as a poet is now complete.
4 hours ago
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driftwood
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[image: 0mallorca_driftwood]
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The call
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This week has been surprising and exhausting.
Along with work, it's finals week (I'm taking a break from grading to write
this now), and I've been both pla...
5 hours ago
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Life After Death
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**** spent blossoms how quickly they are forgotten except by the worms
**** ©WabiSabi 2013 For Carpe Diem ‘death’
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My World: I’m still here! Well, sort of…
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The lilacs are once again blooming, bringing into sharp focus the swiftness
of Time’s passing from year to year. Another spring – how can that be?
Wasn’t i...
6 hours ago
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3 Surprising Ways a Deep Breath can Reduce your Anxiety
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The Lost Pears, 24x30in, Oil on Wood Panel
https://www.etsy.com/listing/151526556/still-life-painting-pears-on-abstract?ref=shop_home_active
Bringing my t...
7 hours ago
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The Great Gatsby film review
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I may have mentioned before that I’m not a huge fan of The Great Gatsby and
am surprised that, when there is so much fantastic American literature in
the w...
9 hours ago
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Weekend Cooking: Birthday Cake
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My family is a large one and everyone’s an artist, pretty much. Growing up,
my mother always made us these wonderful fancy birthday cakes, personalised
a...
10 hours ago
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Dressing to tease?
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A letter in yesterday's Daily Telegraph* referred to the cover of the paperback edition of Harlan Coben's Stay Close, saying it had 'absolutely no connection...
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Small Fry Saturday #18: Does A Kangaroo Have A Mother, Too? by Eric Carle
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It's time for installment #18 of *Small Fry Saturdays! * This is a
when-I-feel-like-it meme to showcase some of books that my 22-month-old
Small Fry is c...
12 hours ago
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Learning the craft, part three
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Don’t submit your beloved manuscript too early. This is part three of a
three-part series on the major lessons I learned while writing Shepherd: A
Memoir, ...
12 hours ago
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Bathroom Monologue: Regarding Submissions
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Dear Expurgated Press,
I am finding your detailed submissions guidelines very helpful. Your "What
We Don't Want" section lasting a screen and a half show...
14 hours ago
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Friends in Paris
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You've probably noticed that my last couple of blog posts have been from
Paris. I'm home now, but spent the week there in the capital city. The
woman on t...
15 hours ago
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Two Years for Lucid Gypsy
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Thanks WordPress,I just saw this in my notifications! Two years of fun,
friendship and learning so much about the world. I’ve added lots of places
to my bu...
15 hours ago
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the launch, the book, the recording
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The launch of the book was on election night. No one knew which way the
election was going to go. We did not know how many people could make it to
the laun...
15 hours ago
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animals in the city: F/light, or: stepping into "The Birds" square
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*Animals in the City*
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*qarrtsiluni magazine's current issue has the theme "Animals in the City".
As always, the magazine goes online in daily posts, and...
16 hours ago
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Saturday … On the campus!
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Unashamed late blooms not wearied by late harsh winds the brazen hussies!!
16 hours ago
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das Spätzchen in der Cantina
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Babies love me. I ask them interesting questions ... "do you want a taco?"
A taco? When you're only 6 months old, every question requires serious thoug...
18 hours ago
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Tree Stumps In Lake Rousseau
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Lake Rousseau was formed in the 1920′s by the construction of a dam on the
Withlacoochee River near Inglis, Florida. A man was paid to cut down all
the tre...
18 hours ago
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Photography Friday
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I think the many member of the Cayuga Nature Photography group that focus
on birds must be rubbing off on me. Plus this seems to be a great place for
them,...
21 hours ago
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If the #TWSS Universe Implodes, I Apologize
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Day 354 Listening to: Power of Love Thought for the day: That’s what she
said. Today’s photo is of Kevin. Yes. He is reloading the freezer with
Nutty Budd...
21 hours ago
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an upside to being an art-supply junkie...
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...is having a clean paintbrush handy when the pump on the sunscreen bottle
quits working:
[image: the upside to years of artistic pretension...]
(It is a...
1 day ago
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“Why I write” – in Stymie Mag
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Some months ago Kari Nguyen, editor in Stymie Magazine, asked “Why do you
write?”, for their column with the same …
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Looking ahead: FLASH is in the June air…
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National Flash Fiction Day is heating up in New Zealand, and INTERnational
Flash Fiction Day is well under way as well. So I recommend two big things
happe...
1 day ago
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Dulwich in the war
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It's not easy to imagine our peaceful, prosperous London suburb in wartime,
bombs falling night after night, but the talk I attended this week by local
h...
1 day ago
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Fish in
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In other news, I made the shortlist of the "Fish Poetry Prize" - judged by Paul
Durcan - after getting two poems on the longlist.
1 day ago
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When Codependency Masks Itself as Loyalty
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I have a little confession to make. Maybe you already know, I'm sure I've
said it before, but maybe I haven't.
I have a problem with codependency.
I kn...
1 day ago
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When You Don’t Get What You Want Something Better May Be Coming
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*“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke
of luck.” ~Dalai Lama*
While every adoption story is different, they all start ...
1 day ago
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tearing at thoughts
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* *tearing at thoughts leaves me feeling exposed*. *Through writing, art
and photography I offer snapshots of unnamed lives fading from view. Places
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2 days ago
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Skywatch Friday - Season 6, Episode 45
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Welcome to Skywatch Friday especially to those of you participating for the
first time.
Your Skywatch Friday hosts are Yogi, Sylvia, and Sandy.
2 days ago
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Review: A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon
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Sometimes it is the small, unconsidered moments that change lives forever.
What might be small for one though, seems momentous for another. And it's
these ...
2 days ago
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Iridescent Insects: What is Flash Fiction?
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I'm over at the Litro blog again today with my second monthly "Guide to
Flash Fiction" blog post - I thought this time I'd better try and figure
out what f...
2 days ago
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Drawing #15, Meditation Space
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On the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month, I facilitate a meditation/contemplative prayer group at the cathedral. This particular chapel is normally use...
2 days ago
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5 Lessons in Contentment from Billionaires Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger
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By Leo Babauta I sat in a crowd of 45,000 about 10 days ago, watching
super-billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger riff off each
other and...
2 days ago
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Sweet Tooth
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The last book for spy week is Sweet Tooth, written allegedly by Ian McEwan.
It may be that reading so much about espionage has given me a conspiracy
comple...
2 days ago
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Hair
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I’m not sure. It’s part of the Orange Window *mini* series though.
(Following.)
2 days ago
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i’m a year away from now
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The man in the gray suit, red tie, walks across the lobby. I can hear his
footsteps on the linoleum floor. He’s carrying a plastic grocery sack and
sets it...
2 days ago
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Do not let Mr Thomas stand around like a lemon
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A friend brought this to my attention the other day and it’s so good I
thought I’d put it here. It’s a set of guidelines for record store
owners/managers t...
3 days ago
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Indonesia extends its forest moratorium
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Hats off to Indonesia’s president for showing the kind of leadership that’s
sorely lacking from most nations in the global North. As WRIInsights
reports: I...
3 days ago
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Harry Potter y la cámara secreta en español!
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Esto es mi primera reseña de libro en español, por eso pidio disculpas por
mis errores :)
He elegido leer Harry Potter en español porque es un libro liger...
3 days ago
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Education Editor (Freelance)
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Words without Borders seeks an Education Editor to participate in the
creation and launch of its education site, Words without Borders Campus.
The Educat...
3 days ago
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Blue Five Notebook – (May 2013 / 13.9)
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Blue Five Notebook – (May 2013 / 13.9) Artist, Eleanor Leonne Bennett is an
internationally award-winning artist. Her photography has been published in
the...
3 days ago
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El Vuelo
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Somewhere over France a bank of rain cloud, an inverted anvil of grey
vapour, rises suddenly and singularly from the otherwise uninterrupted
expanse of und...
3 days ago
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Shakes Island
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Recently I participated in the Shakes Island rededication in my hometown of
Wrangell, Alaska. Each of the photos includes a fifty word poem to
accompany i...
3 days ago
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Expat Author Interview with Claudia from Expatclic.com
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Claudia from Expatclic.com *Claudia is the founder and coordinator of the
website Expatclic.com. After having lived in Sudan, Angola, Guinee-Bissau,
Congo ...
4 days ago
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unintended stencils
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[image: unintended stencils]
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A red-letter day
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During last year’s epic adventure to read a book from every country in the
world, there were a number of pinch-me moments. Sitting in CNN’s London
studios ...
4 days ago
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A Journey Through Pakistan: Nicholas Schmidle’s To Live or To Perish
Forever (2010)
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The Times reporter Declan Walsh’s expulsion from Pakistan on the eve of the
general election reminds one of the expulsion …
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4 days ago
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A Deadline for Australians, A Convention for All of Us
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*Editor's note: It's been a while since I posted a Tuesday Poem - now that
I blog only once a week, the Tuesday Poem has to compete for space with
other po...
4 days ago
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A COLD IS NOT A COLD AND TV OVERDOSING IS DANGEROUS
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Laid low by that thing called "a cold" which is actually a slap in the
face, a kick in the gut, some well-placed punches to nose and throat and a
bit of ey...
5 days ago
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Support the writing community! A good friend of mine is up for a...
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Support the writing community! A good friend of mine is up for a publishing
deal with an amazing poetry press, and part of the criteria is astute use
of ...
5 days ago
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Bonnard with his cat.
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Bonnard with his cat.
5 days ago
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So you think you have a chapbook; now what?
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I’m starting to think about where and how to publish a chapbook, and I
thought I would think it through out loud and share what I’m learning. If
it helps s...
5 days ago
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Sonnet for a Hunter by Marisa Cappetta
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He catches rabbits
in the paddock
with spotlights.
He catches frightened
sand coloured luckless
bundles, quivers of musk.
He catches them alive
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5 days ago
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans
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A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting
on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master” by Rachel
Held E...
5 days ago
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Sunday Small Stone 54
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in the cave of wood -en stairs and glass railings, rain is for other people
to hear when the window gathers its first drops Related articles So That If
I D...
6 days ago
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Quinoa Pinto Bean Salad
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Once every three or four months, I launch an eat-down in my kitchen. This is when I stop buying more and more food and instead focus on consuming and enjoyin...
6 days ago
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PICKING RHUBARB -- For My Mother
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Cutting rhubarb in the rain,
the mottled leaves thick with mud
and slugs, I wonder if these plants,
robust now, will stand another
season in this shaded ...
6 days ago
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May is Short Story Month
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May is *Short Story Month, *and as you likely already know, we love short
stories here at Books, Personally. There are many reasons why - I could go
on ...
1 week ago
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The Mouth Says it All
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It is not often that we pay attention to our mouth. It helps us speak,
smile, eat, spit. If we are smart, we watch what we speak, careful not to
hurt ...
1 week ago
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1384
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thunder – I swerve around boys bigger than the side of the road
nahaiwrimo (found)
1 week ago
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Stranded in Galveston
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One time I was stranded in Galveston, abandoned by a friend at a bar when
she found a guy to suit her needs. It was Memorial Day weekend, and I was
just an...
1 week ago
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Seeking Guest Blind Judges For Our Summer 2013 Open (July)
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Categories: Post |
Burning River is currently seeking three (3) guest blind judges for our
summer open reading period during the month of July. Submiss...
1 week ago
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CEMI and meaning
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Johnjoe McFadden has followed up the paper on his conscious electromagnetic
information (CEMI) field which we discussed recently with another in the
JCS – ...
1 week ago
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Conversations and Translations
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How do you begin a conversation with a stranger in a museum? At the Neue
Pinakothek in Munich, in a gallery of sketches and etchings by Johann
Christian Re...
1 week ago
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TOPPS 1959
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by *Garrett Rowlan*
On a September night in Los Angeles, 1959, Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher Roy
Face lost, and my father fell into the pool. Bill Jones push...
2 weeks ago
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Exactly …
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Hévíz, Hungary
2 weeks ago
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third may
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I snuggle into my cosy blanket cocoon, quilt covering my ears, peeping out
periodically to check the time on my bedside clock. The glow of the digits
reass...
2 weeks ago
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National Poetry Month: April 30
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Hi friends! It’s the last day of National Poetry Month: BOO! So, today I
have selected Mark Doty’s “A Green Crab’s Shell.” I had the great fortune
of heari...
2 weeks ago
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Rubble
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The Virtual Paintout encourages artists to use Google Street View to find
interesting locations and subjects to paint. Every month a country/location
is su...
2 weeks ago
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Peeking wo/man
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Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary
night? Dost thou desire my ...
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3 weeks ago
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On The Wires > qarrtsiluni / Animals in the City
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They woke me up at the crack of dawn. Looked out my window. Here’s what I
(heard and) saw … On the Wires now live at qarrtsiluni in the ‘Animals in
the Cit...
3 weeks ago
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Vine Leaves No. 6
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The 6th issue of Vine Leaves Lit. Journal is out, this time one of my
photos is in it, on page 31. The front and back page are stunning, and
there's a cor...
4 weeks ago
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A Guide to Girl Geek Culture: The 2013 Eisner Award Nominees + links to online reads
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* The Eisner Awards are prizes given for creative achievement in American
comic books, sometimes referred to as the Comics Industry's equivalent of
the Osc...
4 weeks ago
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RaRa on Samantha Brick's Diet
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*The story below does not relate to the man in the above picture. Though
they do both like pudding.*
*I was sheltering from torrential rain in a doorway n...
4 weeks ago
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Potential for annoyance
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What I momentarily took to be a large rising moon (in the wrong place) was
a plastic bag caught in the high branches of a tree opposite my window. I
know...
4 weeks ago
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For Edo, in memoriam
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For the first birthday he cannot celebrate … but we can, and will. For Edo.
4 weeks ago
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April 11, 2013
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American Coot
5 weeks ago
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*Stepping into the realms of writing and compiling a cookbook*
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*The Bow-Wow Bowl and Delish Doggie Dishes. A recipe book for cookies,
cakes, and special...
5 weeks ago
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Birthday Bash Poetry Contest Winners
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On March 1 (over a month ago) I held a Birthday Bash Poetry Contest in
honor of Dr. Seuss. I asked followers (and even non-followers) to write a
poem. If y...
5 weeks ago
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Book Haul to End All Book Hauls, part 1. (Vlog #2)
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Hey guys! I'm back in the blog/vlog-osphere! This is the first of two
hauls, where I talk about the physical books I've received in the past
months.
5 weeks ago
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In Descant 160, the Hidden City issue: Vịnh Mốc: Life Underground
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I am so pleased to have my piece Vịnh Mốc: Life Underground appear in
Descant Magazine’s Hidden City issue. With its beautiful, mysterious photo
by Jeremy...
5 weeks ago
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Indie Bookstore of the Day: Bibliohead Bookstore
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Today I discovered a great, compact indie bookstore in the Hayes Valley
neighborhood of San Francisco, *Bibliohead Bookstore*. I was not in good
shape fo...
1 month ago
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Eight Ways to Say No
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I barely remembered this as part of my DARE training in 4th grade, but now
it seems extremely helpful–particularly with insidious ideologies. (Thanks
for r...
1 month ago
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Love Lost by Tracy Falbe
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Thank you Alchemyofscrawl for allowing me to reveal the fantasy world in
Love Lost with your alphabet soup game. A is for Alloi. She is a powerful
champion...
1 month ago
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Louis Owens: Story in the Blood
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Louis Owens: Story in the Blood.
1 month ago
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The Cats of Morocco
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[image: Post image for The Cats of Morocco]
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time you know that I’m a
cat person, as are the people wi...
1 month ago
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the tao of travel
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‘The Tao of Travel’ is a sampler of travel writing from different authors
and times, collected by Paul Theroux. It is also, in part, an appreciation
by on...
1 month ago
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The Urban Ginko
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Reblogged from haikumatters: I envy people who have enough money to travel
for a good ginko but sadly I am not one of them. A ginko is a very useful
thing....
1 month ago
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Herring’s Return
Hold to the deep, spring herring;
embrace your right to underwater flight.
A primordial pattern of migration is found
in your erratic, b...
1 month ago
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Call Me By Your Name
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An exquisite excerpt from Andre Aciman's brief and beautiful book, 'Call Me
By Your Name.' This passage towards the end overturned me:
*I imagined being in...
1 month ago
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BluePrintReview: walls parallels shadows - editor's note
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*the second part of the BluePrintReview in/stances is live!*
it's a rather visual part, featuring 3 photo series:
- Walls of Hue, Viet Nam by Chris Ga...
1 month ago
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Once Upon a Time VII and Spring Reading Thing 2013
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I know, I know...I can't control myself! But I absolutely must participate
in Carl's non-challenges like this one and his *R.I.P.* Plus, I failed so
misera...
1 month ago
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Wonder Wednesdays – the Diary of the One Swelling Sea
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Not everyone is as lucky as I to live with a direct line of sight to the
sea. In the place where I live, you are never far from the sound of the
waves, the...
1 month ago
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The Theatre of the Dead (III)
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My grandfather (left) spent over two and a half decades in the merchant
marine.
My grandfather passed away two weeks ago. This is th...
1 month ago
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Paranormal Legacy Blog Tour – Caitlin Hensley Guest Post
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Please welcome my friend Caitlin Hensley as she shares a little about
herself, her inspiration regarding her latest novel, Paranormal Legacy, and
how her l...
2 months ago
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Wednesday Hodgepodge - March 6, 2013
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After my blogging break I started posting over at my Lind-guistics blog but
not here. So today I am joining in on the Wednesday Hodgepodge which is
organiz...
2 months ago
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Réinventons l’amour avec Myface Book
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Réinventons l'amour avec Myface Book - Performance de Çiğdem y Mirol
Monvisage Livre est mon « livre-performance ». Il fait partie d’une
structure qui ex...
2 months ago
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NEW MEDIA: Breaking Through The Fourth Wall
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Technology has given us social networking and social networking has given
the audience (of any medium: newspapers, internet, television, telephone,
etc.) a...
2 months ago
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Sex Industry Apologist #2, and other zines
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I launched my new zine Sex Industry Apologist #2 at Sticky Institute a week
and a half ago, as part of their Paper City zine festival. A whole bunch of
peo...
2 months ago
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A workaholic-socialmediaholic (me) takes Tuesday off
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*Satya writes:* Yesterday, me & Kaspa took the day off.
I have a tendency to work too hard. We've both had several weekends full of
worky-things. And so ...
3 months ago
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Photo Flurry - 30 in 30 - Days 18 - 23
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I've decided to limit my photo posts to once a week. I've been really busy and to be honest, I'm more likely to finish this way. So here is the last week of ...
3 months ago
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A Late Walk, Matapouri Track - Concept and Verbalisation
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Limited vocabulary poems offer good opportunities for expanding writing
skills. When using this technique, concepts involved must be clearly
defined within...
4 months ago
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viewmasters and earthquakes
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Fellow Travelers: I wake up from the semi-hibernation of late December and
realize January is well underway. On Friday the 4th, nearing midnight, a
7.5 ear...
4 months ago
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Aayuhh, That’s New Hampsha
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The Larcom Eclogues: Poems from the Foot of Her Mountains by Brian Scott
Kelley My rating: 3 of 5 stars I found this chapbook at an indie bookstore
in Cent...
4 months ago
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Outline of Fading Empire
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In the waning days the old stories do not hold. In the waning days
language becomes thin and ghostly. In the waning days none of this
registers. I...
4 months ago
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Mental Illness Advocacy Challenge 2013
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*Challenge Summary: *I (Opinions of a Wolf) started the Mental Illness
Advocacy (MIA) Reading Challenge in December 2010 in an effort to raise
awareness, ...
4 months ago
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I joined a challenge or two.
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I like to be challenged. I like having a goal to work toward. I love
reading. Can you see where this is going?
I've signed up for some reading challenges. ...
4 months ago
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All the best for 2013!
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2012 has been a great year filled with so many different experiences by
which I have been blessed with. Blogging …
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4 months ago
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The Vorrh, by Brian Catling
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I started reading The Vorrh because it gave me the impression it would be
some very good fantastic literature. The fact that it was introduced by the
usual...
5 months ago
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Minnetonka buried water tank
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At some point on the small hill that I walked this morning, a water tower
was demolished. A sturdier, safer tower was build a few hundred yards away,
and t...
5 months ago
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#012: nightmarish
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clothes not fitting... running late... hopelessly late... someone tells you
your teeth need brushing, a colleague you vaguely know and who would not
und...
5 months ago
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34
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The space they are in is years long. Two, they hover on a threshold. One
reaches to touch the other. The hand goes through. Waves radiate. The past
is...
5 months ago
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200 Days of Travel
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199 days ago I waved goodbye to my parents from the lobby of the Hilton
Hotel near JFK airport. The following morning, three of my friends and I
boarded a ...
5 months ago
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#001: achromatic
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A word a day diary... an intriguing idea discovered yesterday in a
bookshop... but, £10 far too much to pay, for a physical memento, for a
stocking fill...
5 months ago
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Hey, it’s only been a year…
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Maybe more than a year. But, here is a new blog update, at last and
finally. Mostly this is just to say I’m joining the “7 Continents, 7
Billion people, 7...
6 months ago
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Highlight: Deniz Utlu in translation
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For this special highlight in our final highlight series this month, we
have a collection of five “minimals from the …
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6 months ago
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Shani Boianjiu’s “The People of Forever Are Not Afraid”
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It begins, it seems, at 23. You turn over to the back cover of the book
you’re reading and find that the author is your age, or not much older.
Sure, the w...
6 months ago
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Blog Carnival 6: All About Frankfurt
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We said Carnival 5: A VIEW FROM HERE was the last Blog Carnival, but when
we saw the photos, links and updates from Frankfurt, we knew we had to put
togeth...
6 months ago
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Top Ten Tuesday (3)
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So for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and Bookish, we
have kick ass heroines that we love! Such a fun topic. 1. Kami Glass from
Unspoken ...
6 months ago
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Kaffe in Katmandu Says Goodbye
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It’s been a psychedelic ride with you guys, thank you for all the fun and
the faces and so much dada during 2011, but after one year and infinite
degrees...
6 months ago
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100/2012 Stories
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Word Count: 426 I sat there reading the words I typed the previous night.
Another late evening into dawn weaving stories of people I don’t even know,
mayb...
7 months ago
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Day #100 Domino
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7 months ago
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Low Road
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Day 100
The sun shone through the window.
A young girl was sitting on a chair listening to her ipod.
It was once her mothers.
Her father had saved her li...
7 months ago
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100/100 For dragon eggs?
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Shall we open the door? What story, the old or the new?
We have lived so long and so well
In our green fable
Shall we open the doors?
[from ‘Uranium 2’...
7 months ago
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The Next Big Thing
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*What is the working title of your book?*
'On the Bitch'
*Where did the idea come from for the book?*
I needed to get back into writing, so I sent out email...
7 months ago
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The Parselmouth and the Goblin: in which supernatural events in Zimbabwe bring me back to blogging
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I have been away so long that I actually forgot my blogger site password.
But here I am again, on my own. Going down this lonely road I have always
known. ...
7 months ago
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'Conversations with S. Teri O'Type': an interview with author Christopher Allen
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This is the first blog interview I've hosted here and I'm very proud to be able to present Chrostopher Allen and his satirical novel 'Conversations with S. T...
8 months ago
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PAGE _ New 10 Part Video - Features top Charlotte Writers!
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Watch: Pages, a free 10-part video series with readings by some of
Charlotte’s most prominent authors. The Charlotte Video Project captures
some of our cit...
9 months ago
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unsaleablereturns2
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unsaleablereturns2
9 months ago
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inspiring places / coastal
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some things transcend language, each providing a universal touchstone of
experience. such is the shore, which varies so dramatically from place to
place....
9 months ago
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The Bathers
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The Bathers
She is not robed in flame, although the sandbeside her seems to burn in
liquid heatof afternoon. Her...
10 months ago
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And the winner is...
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I am delighted to announce that my poem "The Name" is the winner of the
unFold 2012 Poetry Garden Show. Thank you to the judges
- William O’Daly, trans...
10 months ago
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eManto : a selected reading, listening, & viewing list
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[image: Img_0665]
*Works by Saadat Hasan Manto translated into English*:
Barren. Published by apublicspace.
The Dog of Tetval. Published by Granta.
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1 year ago
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A Māori in Manhattan 1
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*Ngāi Tahu in New York*
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1 year ago
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'We Danced the Color'
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We danced the color
green today
amidst the grass, the hay
within the cornfields
Oh so tall
with a dear kiss
this spectacle
was sealed.
We danced...
1 year ago
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The YB Blurber
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AKA Karla Linn Merrifield. The Dark Touch of Genius In Rebellion, Chris
Crittenden writes of “storms in heartbeats.” It’s a suitable metaphor for
the poems...
1 year ago
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Life Is Interesting In Texas
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This is the thing about America: its citizens are too open. This is why I
look at them every day and shake my head. I have too much pity for some of
them...
1 year ago
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New
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It's that time of year again when we say goodbye to the old and say hello
to the new. This is a favourite time of year from me as it's a chance for
me to r...
1 year ago
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slide
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slide lies lied sidle idle dies
1 year ago
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Street Scenes
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Our street was a desolate, one-way suburban enclave smack in the middle of
the town center. Next to it lay the busiest main road at the time, the
susurrati...
1 year ago
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Protected: Aubade by Walter Bjorkman
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
1 year ago
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#100/100 Window
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This photo was originally published on YB Poetry blog in June 2011. All
other photos--the ones taken by me--I've post...
1 year ago
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Road Trip
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by Diana J. Wynne
Mark took a last bite of the apple and threw the core out the window.
“Biodegradable,” he said, as it hit the road behind us.
Mark ...
1 year ago
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Beached
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*There is quiet desolation is this place that was once so vital and a
monument to the past. *
Thoughts are alienated
and my mind's pumping ceases
words w...
1 year ago
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Good Luck Tags
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I had just quit my job to come to China and learn Chinese. My mind was an
amalgam of worry at the prospect of not having a steady salary for the next
few m...
2 years ago
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Hibernation
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is a sweet thing–concerns darkness, being afraid. A leather building?
I have been hibernating in January–just a note to say I haven’t
for...
2 years ago
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Song Sung Blue
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[image: Dong_hoi]
*The evening shadows fell over the sea. I stood gazing at the window. The
ruins of a church in the distance. Bombed out during a wa...
2 years ago
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Of Bitches and Bastards
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Okay, so I'm on my own now. There's a lot of stuff I need to learn how to
do, and not just home maintenance stuff that used to fall on Dan. I've got
al...
2 years ago
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Have an honest New Year
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We do need a bright start to everything including the New Year, but aping
and imitating others may not be the way to do it.
2 years ago
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GOD AND LANGUAGE: THE TORAH AS A TEXBOOK FOR WRITERS
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Returning to my first post on language, interesting questions come to
mind in regard to God as one who creates by word. The assumptions, by the
way, ha...
2 years ago
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Thank you :-) <3 looking forward to visiting a few of these today
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