Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Tired

Posted on November 20, 2005 by Susan

Physical day today, stressing muscles moving furniture the bed where I was conceived forty-five miles away and many mental miles beyond.  Rock maple moved here, my walnut to replace it, beds and dressers empty of their people’s clothes and dreams.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: The Huntress

Posted on November 19, 2005 by Susan

By what pale moon does the good lady hunt her mirrored pools?  By what thin light does her reflection know the beauty?  Or does Diana seek the dodging of the fox, strength of black haired bear or speed of stag?  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Material Past

Posted on November 19, 2005 by Susan

While I’m tossing Christmas catalogs without so much as a glance this year, the Vermont Country Store is one I can’t avoid.  For decades I had been ordering their fruit slices for my mother, their old-fashioned horehounds for my father … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Character and Conflict

Posted on November 18, 2005 by Susan

The more I try to learn of human character, the more I wonder at the need or justification for the fictional character with body, soul, emotions and those almighty conflicts.  I am resisting a gradual growing tendency to see that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Writing Reality

Posted on November 18, 2005 by Susan

A post at The Great Lettuce Head on Alice Munro has me rethinking yet again about where my own writing is going, and why it is perhaps stalling at the stop signs.  With quite a bit of Munro ready to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Image of Health

Posted on November 18, 2005 by Susan

We racked the wine the second time tonight.  Seventy five or more pounds of purple grapes turned ruby liquid in two five gallon carboys.  Removed the must, the top of floating skins and seeds; the bottom is the lees, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Time

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Susan

Don’t tell me time is ticking tocking like a heart beat flub and dubbing uncontrolled by human mind and film still doesn’t make it so. Waiting makes an hour a hundred-twenty minutes longer on some days that could instead see … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: This Evening

Posted on November 16, 2005 by Susan

Raining hard this evening, ended up not having heart, not going out almost to a class for inspiration.  Home watching I Walk the Line:  A Night for Johnny Cash and feeling good from lyrics written from life, like stories set … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Boom-Crash!

Posted on November 16, 2005 by Susan

It never rains but it pours.  The shop computer will not turn on.  Somewhat similar to what happened to it last time and I found it may have been either the power supply or the hard drive and these have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Amazon.com

Posted on November 15, 2005 by Susan

Sometimes I really hate people.  But take this post as a WARNING: Last week I received an e-mail from (possibly) Amazon.com regarding my account.  The e-mail said that they had been notified by my bank that my credit card may … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Animation

Posted on November 15, 2005 by Susan

Come back to California Mr. Disney!  We’re living in the time of world you only touched with mind and hand.  We buy our golden eggs from quacking ducks and talking geckos.  Just in case we need it and we do.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Rain Down

Posted on November 15, 2005 by Susan

Clouds pass over, white puffed with promise, black with doom, sometimes stopping dropping rain for me instead of crying.  Tandem random even super Doppler radar didn’t know.  My heart left my umbrella in my mind. Wet and wanting, waiting for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: Where’s Alice?

Posted on November 14, 2005 by Susan

This one just popped in to say hello:                                                     Where’s Alice? One day around four p.m. in the fifth floor offices of Data … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Payday

Posted on November 14, 2005 by Susan

8:15 each morning, crossing lawns, leaving size five footprints in the frosted grass.  Warming hands with lotion soothing as my voice to heal a sewn-together knee.  Last year to Chris I was Nurse Fuzzy and Fran was called Nurse Jane … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Up for Review

Posted on November 14, 2005 by Susan

I’m wandering through my lineup of books and trying my darnedest to keep my sticky fingers off McCarthy.  There are four or five of them there just screaming "Read me!  Read me!"  I think he (and Marquez–I’m playing the field) … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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