Monday, August 15, 2011

Contentment in the Woods

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While lying in the sand and staring at the waves yesterday from the shore of North Carolina's Atlantic Beach, I was swept with nostalg...
Monday, July 04, 2011

Rocking on the Fourth

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Just as televised news brought the Vietnam War into the living rooms of America, social media has brought the struggle of the world's fr...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Saying Goodbye Isn't Forever

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One hundred years ago it would have been a final goodbye, crossing the continent to a new home three thousand miles away. I've left the ...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A Father's Day Retrospective

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Two days past Father's Day and I'm now ready to write about it. My parents divorced when I was seven and my father lapsed back into ...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Travel With Me On A Mother's Day Blog Tour

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Welcome to the Twitter Chats Blog Tour , organized by Mariana N. Blaser at mariblaser’s randomities and Anne Tyler Lord at Don’t Fence M...
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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Life is a Novel You Write One Breath at a Time

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Life is a novel you write one breath at a time. Although you don't choose each breath as intentionally as an author selects words to pro...
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Happy New Year: 2010

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New Year's Day places a date on the calendar when we can turn the page on the past and write the first letter of the future. ( Thought o...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Question of the Week: Who is YOUR worst enemy?

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A wise possum once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." (Pogo, by Walt Kelly, 1970) What do doors have to do with enemies?...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Question of the Week: What doors have opened or closed in your life?

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Drawing from the Facebook Exchange in last week's post : Carolyn Burns Bass Now that I have a door on my studio, dare I close it? Octobe...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

A Short Exchange About Doors

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Facebook may be pass é in ten years (maybe less), but for now it's a virtual pub for the global village. While contemplating my recent f...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

A Door of My Own

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I’ve observed a fly trapped inside the open-slat mini-blinds of my window now for hours. It flies up and down, walks across, buzzes crazily,...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Remembering the Fallen: 9/11

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Verse (c) 2006 by Carolyn Burns Bass
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Literary Digs in South Beach at The Betsy

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I just spent two wonderful days at the Betsy Hotel in South Beach. The Betsy sits on Ocean Drive across from Lummus Park in the Art Deco di...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Clar de Lune, Susan Boyle and My Mother

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My novel, THE SWORD SWALLOWER'S DAUGHTER, yes, the one I'm still revising, draws much from my childhood. My father really was a swor...
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Saturday, April 11, 2009

In honor of National Poetry Month: A Poem

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Labor Pains By Carolyn Burns Bass I was silenced too long by the sound of my own heartbeat. Joy in living and grief in the passing of l...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Everyone Has a Story to Tell

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Several years ago I wrote and self-published a guidebook to help ordinary people write their lifestories. I used this guidebook, WRITE FROM ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

On childhood faith: Remembering Ash Wednesday

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It’s Fat Tuesday. A day of worldwide gluttony and pursuit of pleasure before Ash Wednesday and the season of lent. Growing up in a very div...
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