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Monthly Archives: August 2009
maybe Monday…
is the culprit. Because I urgged out of house this morning and found a chair in the library magazine room and, though I’d planned to research Parents and Parenting, pulled a beauteous-covered magazine from the shelf first and read articles by the powerful, the assumed correct, the there’s only one side to this story for … Continue reading
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question of the week
It’s another of those mornings when I wonder what I can send into the ether or stuff inside my mailbox (oops, need to buy stamps). I’m pondering why we read what we do. Last Friday I spent nearly eight hours preparing two submissions and toddling them off. Then I felt accomplished. Also, looking back, I … Continue reading
Posted in reading, writing
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In this light
The garden tangles. Zucchini swell and elongate, beans curve in fading half-moons, pumpkins appear beneath rough leaves, their runners twined around the tall grass stalks I grasp and tug away. I’m tidying only slightly. Digging out brown marigolds, clipping columbine pods. Late-day light on my jungle is calming. This past season, more than many, I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in belief, reflection
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in random briefs
I overslept this morning. Today the heat probably broke a temperature record. Will it be our last hot hot day of the year? Will, a good friend of my son, James, leaves this week for college far away. Today Will’s mom, Shelley, and I chatted in the shade out at their country home, while her … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, interesting, newsy, writing
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eventful
Getting back into my morning routine takes several cups of hot water and a few pauses for reflection. It’s been a full spate of days. What can I say better about the time spent with my hubby than this? For being a nice, breakfast-in-bed sort, I let him browse flying machines to his heart’s delight. … Continue reading
Posted in marriage is cute sometimes, spaceship, wonder, writing
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sorta in…sending out
A lady in my first critique group years ago maintained a goal to keep at least ten written things out to publications at all times. This was before email, even. She wrote and sold novels, and I admired her. Though I sold some articles in those days, I never quite matched her numbers for regular … Continue reading
weekend thoughts
You know you miss your daughter when, over the weekend, your husband makes recordings of old LPs and 45s, and you hear a pop tune that began, actually, as a TV commercial with people standing on a hillside holding pop bottles. You start to talk to your husband about the social and political implications of … Continue reading
Posted in family, life, random stuff
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you guys…
who’ve hung around this spot know who you are (even if I don’t). This post’s for you. Right here.
Posted in blogging
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good day
Recently I had imagined hearing good news from a New York publication, but that didn’t happen. Today I learned I did sell an article to a North Carolina publication. Such news is fine by me. The story, for BackHome Magazine, will be about our adventures in garter-snake-friendly living. Driving through town this afternoon I imagined … Continue reading
Posted in embracing dorkhood, newsy, writing, yum
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carried away
Silence can mentor. The wilderness is loud with it. I’m working on another guest blog, wherein I’ll reveal ways blogging itself has helped me write. Last night, in bed early even for me after a day out and away, I pondered the teacherly ways of silence. Three years ago I published my first posts to … Continue reading
Posted in outdoors, reading, thankfulness, wonder
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