Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Flying Thoughts that Land

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Susan

More madness this morning, like a cloud of insanity stirred up by cleaning up for company, or in preparation for a meeting of creative minds such as in yesterday’s festival of writers. "What does it profit a man if he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: A Writers Day

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Susan

Very good day yesterday; spent at the Tunxis Community College Writers Festival.  Listened to authors speak of the process of publishing, to poets and writers reading their work, viewed short films, the "draft" of a documentary that hopefully will see … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Trump Teaches

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Susan

It is no secret that for the past few years I have focused a good part of my time and my mind on the learning of dying, and of course, the learning of living in that the two are inseparable.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Truth is Stranger Than…

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Susan

See, you couldn’t make this stuff up.  If I wrote it into a story I’d be called out on it.  I wasn’t even going to post this but it’s why I spent my day bouncing off walls, praying for the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Today

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Susan

It was a day of accomplishment, and yet a day of reckoning.  I accomplished my father-in-law’s taxes, laundry, binding, framing, bills, visiting the sick, comforting the itchy-backed (el espouso).  I reckoned a bit, and then some more.  I reckon much … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Journalism – A Case of the Sloppies

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Susan

Another fine example of the new generation of literacy: STAMFORD (AP) — Former Stamford Mayor Stanley Esposito is 64 people who have written letters in support of reputed Connecticut mob boss Anothy Megale. Megale is to be sentenced tomorrow on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Magical Realism

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Susan

Highly unusual: A garage-inspired path of thought but in the early morning.  And, with an unlit dipped-in-arrow-lacquer cigarette to satisfy my oral craving, much to my husband’s dismay. This–and not original at all, but sometimes when one stumbles upon it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Writing It.

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Susan

In triple-thinking the post below, I realize I may be getting a bit anal retentive about the grammar, and I certainly am not one who is masterful in the language so why am I complaining? Further, this thought occurred to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Local Yokel

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Susan

Very strange morning run uptown.  Ray’s Village Food Mart has been replaced in part by CVS; the changes more subconsciously in place than what I’d guessed.  Came out of CVS and was shocked to find my car door was locked.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Contemporary Fiction

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Susan

Scott at Slushpile has a very interesting post entitled Literary Invulnerability regarding our more common than admitted sometimes disenchantment with the story selection of literary journals.  I myself have been a lot more vocal about it, although I was thrilled … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Aging

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Susan

This is definitely not a literary posting, and I suppose I could just as well have not remarked upon it today, but damn!  I just had to tell somebody! Went to see my father-in-law this morning to catch him early … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Snagglepuss

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Susan

For the past two weeks I have Snagglepuss on my mind, although in truth, it is Snaggletooth that is more apropos.  I started life out just as the rest of us, toothless.  Had a couple minor glitches teeth-wise along the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Movin’ Forward

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Susan

So here I am on a Saturday evening, dinner in the pressure cooker stinkin’ up the house in all its beer-infused pork glory, and the shop is closed and the magazine done, and financial rehabilitation is within the month’s end … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Exploratory Surgery

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Susan

Better known in its simple form as editing, the reading back and changing of one’s own work can be an almost never-ending operation. For the latest issue of otto, I completed a project that started out a year ago with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Living & Dying Stories

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Susan

Four years ago, in visiting my mother at a nursing home, I was struck by the wealth of life inside the drooping heads and vacant stares of the residents.  It was a horrible thought; the accumulated memories of hundreds of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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