Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Turning Love to Satisfaction

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Susan

I am waffling back and forth as usual on my writing, though it is obvious I must cut back the time spent in this single area.  Facing facts of life and looking deep within the basket I hold before me, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & EDUCATION: Paths

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Susan

Nothing like the out-of-season autumn coolness and the sound of rustling leaves to get one thinking back to texts and classrooms. Swore off this as an end to a diploma, but always kept it open as an opportunity to grow … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITNG: Blogging

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Susan

It’s tough being a blog. What you start out as is never what you grow up to be.  Writing was the theme of Spinning back in 2003, but personal journaling became a part of it as both an exercise in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Delirium

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Susan

Delirium is not quite new media perhaps, but just as this Cirque du Soleil onstage presentation uses new media effects it could be a base of ideas in creating a new media digital format of the show.  It has been … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Getting Older

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Susan

Putting off dying, as much as real living.  Just walking and stopping and standing still looking around.  Ideas fly by like elephants with wings; are caught, inspected, and stored safe away.  Can’t plan nothin’ ’cause there’s too much to do.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Character

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Susan

He walks into my kitchen looking seven days worse than last week.  The fingers, long and ghostly white, tissue paper wrapped on bone.  Back bent and shoulders hunching forward.  It helps the pain, I think, of looking anyone in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Ethics and Argument

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Susan

I posted something a few days back to the effect that the purpose of argument is to either convince your opponent of your stand or to understand and accept his.  Well, I don’t really believe that since there are other … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Further Frustration

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Susan

All of Them:  You take two-thirds of the expenses off the price of the house. Me:  No, you take the total expenses off. All of Them:  No, because then the two of you are paying her share.  Listen, we’ve handled … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: CSI

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Susan

It just dawned on me in watching CSI: Miami:  Horatio is the only one of the CSI groups (NYC, Las Vegas, Miami) who never has to perform any of the lab tests and rarely if ever goes into the autopsy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Anthropomorphism?

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Susan

Grey sky grumbles thunder, black cloud furrowed brows above eyes flashing in anger.  Discontent, frustration give way to tears of rain. Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Links

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Susan

There’s always an intriguing assortment of links on Anne’s Ample Sanity, but these two I checked out this morning bear following further: Splotch – An exciting bombardment of work on the cutting edge, videos included, that may come to represent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Mathematical Probabilities

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Susan

I would love to know the statistics that might give me a clue as to why the last four tablets of any vitamin mixed in with the new bottle remain till the very end of that new bottle as well. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Stones!

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Susan

Ooh-ooh-ooh!  Go check out 2 Blowhards post on The Stones in the 70s, complete with videos.  Mick Jagger was always one homely SOB but "Dead Flowers" was one of my favorites and the other is one I don’t think I’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: How Others See Us…

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Susan

This is just too funny.  A customer just left the shop and we’d just talked briefly but she said that I’m always so "bubbly."  Now the last thing I could ever be traited with is "bubbly."  Anyone who knows me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Short Stories

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Susan

It doesn’t really worry me since in the end, I think it doesn’t matter.  It’s just that I’m having a hard time going back to revise and edit at least two of my recent pieces or even open up the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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