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REALITY?: Happy Easter!

Posted on April 12, 2009 by susan

This is the best I could come up with this year; an egg is an egg is an egg, but my rabbits have been around a while, long enough to be a part of my Easter tradition. By the way, … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & REALITY?: Chekhov’s The Black Monk

Posted on April 11, 2009 by susan

Sometimes you’re lucky enough to be reading something just when you need it. Or maybe it’s just that you read into it what you need to get out of it. In The Black Monk, scholar and philosopher Andrey Vail’ich Kovrin, … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Chekhov as Painter

Posted on April 11, 2009 by susan

You know, there’s nothing to compare to the old when it comes to story writing and someone such as Chekhov: The gloomy pines, with their rough roots that but a year ago had seen him so young, joyful and hale, … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & REALITY?: Stories & Song

Posted on April 11, 2009 by susan

Funny, a woman can come on so wild and free, yet insist I don’t watch her undress, or watch her watch me, then stand by my bed and shiver as if she were cold, just to lay down beside me … Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS & REALITY?: Foreign Trade

Posted on April 10, 2009 by susan

When, oh when, will Americans wise up and refuse to buy any more Chinese junk? Knauf Drywall Fiasco Biggest Homes Defect Cast in U. S. History My God, people, can’t we even make our own drywall anymore? It may cost … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & REALITY?: Life Imitates Art?

Posted on April 10, 2009 by susan

Shades of The Road, Blind, and so many apocalyptic and disaster aftermath novels: More Squatters Call Foreclosures Home. Now there’s something to this that could have been good, could have worked, like not forcing the real owners to leave to … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: My Argument with Chekhov

Posted on April 10, 2009 by susan

Or perhaps just with his character of Egor Semenych, an elderly man whose love of his garden is his life’s passion. Who worries that when he is dead, his garden will go to ruin, and even the idea of his … Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Wal Mart for President!

Posted on April 10, 2009 by susan

Well, at least the big bad corporations understand the unemployment and healthcare situation better than our government politicos: The Take Care Clinic at Wal-Marts offers “Free healthcare visits for our past, present, and future patients*, and their families, who lose … Continue reading →

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POETRY: Nature

Posted on April 10, 2009 by susan

Laughter trills like water streams above the rock and mud of beds; love gets over itself. She shakes her hair back like she’s seen the models do; it’s not the same and yet for one fast beating of her heart, … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Coincidentally

Posted on April 9, 2009 by susan

Today, April 9th, is the birthday of my best girlfriend in high school, Pat, who married at twenty-one and has lived in TN almost since then. Just wished her a happy day via Facebook and then stopped and thought, gee, … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Fun Time

Posted on April 8, 2009 by susan

See the plastic jug? It’s filled with about $75.00′ worth of zypki–dried mushrooms–from the Black Forest and it’s a major ingredient in my traditional Easter. For baszcz, the white type as my family has always made it, as well as … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Prose/Poetry

Posted on April 7, 2009 by susan

More poetry from Jesse Abbot and this particular piece crosses the border into prose. I like it. I’ve always wondered (and should study up on it or get into a poetry group) what makes prose into poetry. I’m a lover … Continue reading →

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POETRY: Weird Rainy Day Words

Posted on April 6, 2009 by susan

Irrational Fears Not born of sheltered privilege, nor pearl abused by father, brother, mustachioed hardened uncle, or a mother pecked by a pelican in her ninth month of bearing, or borne by ghosts and grown in rooms dark for lack … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Summer Cramming?

Posted on April 6, 2009 by susan

Looking around for some quick short class setups for web design, code, digital art, and some specific software instruction (Tinderbox, In-Design, etc.) to maybe speed up my learning process here. It seems to take me forever to logic out a … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: A Response on Plagiarism

Posted on April 6, 2009 by susan

Just received a comment from someone whom I’d quoted via an article in one of my posts on the education system and today’s students and want to highlight it here as it has somewhat restored my faith in mankind, even … Continue reading →

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