Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Still Life With Lovers

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Several years ago I wrote a short story for one of the writing contests run by the online writer's group, Backspace . That story, ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Keyboard Creativity at Weymouth

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Camellia garden at Weymouth. Everything worth value takes time. Time to write, compose, paint, design, prepare, study. Practice . I left...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Night Swim, Don't Miss It

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Today, January 10, is a day I've long waited for. One of my good friends will have her first book published. I've read excerpts of t...
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Sunday, January 01, 2012

Here's to 2012

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Here's a glimpse of New Year's Eve 1968 through the eyes of my young protagonist, Sheila Pace, in this excerpt from my novel, THE SW...
Monday, December 26, 2011

The Patron Saint of Flexibility

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My daughter knows me so well. My Christmas gift from her this year was a page from an 1883 dictionary with a transparent image of Gumby and...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Happy Holidays 2011: Joy to the World

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

How to Cook a Turkey ~ Happy Thanksgiving

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For your Thanksgiving enjoyment, I'm posting here a section of my novel THE SWORD SWALLOWER'S DAUGHER that has been cut from the fin...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

RIP Steve Jobs

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On the Apple.com website October 5, 2011.
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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