Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Timing

Posted on September 3, 2005 by Susan

Every loss a tragedy, every day a time to use to love and care. Friday was the day they’d finally see each other after quite a while and long ago great friendship. Thursday, Ponzie died. You’ve got to stop smoking, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Journalism

Posted on September 2, 2005 by Susan

I think one of the points coming out of the Katrina disaster is the way the news is reported, obviously.  It seems that the focus is on the looting, and while that is a part of the tragedy, I’m sure … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Amazon Delivereth

Posted on September 1, 2005 by Susan

Oh Lord, Didascalicon may yet again be put aside: "I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville.   One and only one.  My arrest and my testimony.  I went up there and visited with him two or three times.  Three … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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PEOPLE: And a Philosopher Named Katrina

Posted on September 1, 2005 by Susan

You can read them all, Milton, Blake, Plato, all the way through Kant and Freud and more.  The historians and the philosophers, the psychologists and the writers of the times and of the peoples.  The questions asked and answers lie … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Katrina

Posted on September 1, 2005 by Susan

Unbelievable and yet we’ve seen similar scenes before, although of not the magnitude, and why always does the sunshine light the devastation the days after to make the unnormal look like a normal dumped out Leggo’s box on a playground? … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Miss Snark

Posted on September 1, 2005 by Susan

I can’t sleep and one of the reasons is because of reading this weblog by a literary agent and her wonderful sharing of comments on writer submissions that is of the greatest value to any writer.  Why this is even … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Self Publishing

Posted on August 31, 2005 by Susan

I know this isn’t going to win me any readers, but I have to be honest about something that came up the other night at the writers meeting and that has been circling around in my head running from lobe … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Comparing the Old “New Media”

Posted on August 31, 2005 by Susan

Fiddling with Facade again kept it fresh in my mind this morning as I sipped my coffee, checked my e-mail on the laptop, and glanced every now and then at a movie on the television.  Dreamboat, a 1952 movie starring … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: KISS

Posted on August 30, 2005 by Susan

The KISS philosophy is one I practice when coming up with passwords, mainly because like you, I have dozens of websites that require them and it’s a PITA to log in.  Seven months after I first set the passwords for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & NEW MEDIA: State of Affairs

Posted on August 29, 2005 by Susan

Another great meeting tonight with the Narratives writers group.   We covered the serious topic of the current publishing market as it affects the writer.  We also produced a couple stageplays of "Facade" to demonstrate to the members what all the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Novel Selection

Posted on August 28, 2005 by Susan

Finally ordered my selection for my next novel reading:  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  It was just mentioned again recently here and I have been meaning for a long time to read it.  It should be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Siblings

Posted on August 28, 2005 by Susan

Well there you go, I have it now, the proof of all I’ve long suspected and imagined growing up amongst a tribe of little girls.  The others pointed fingers, yet I knew, I really knew, though one of us was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Phooey

Posted on August 28, 2005 by Susan

A different kind of writer’s block, a worse one than I’ve never suffered through before.  I have no problem writing tripe at all. The new stuff’s nothing short of bad. The old stuff–which I seek out because I thought it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Rain

Posted on August 28, 2005 by Susan

Happy glow of peaches, coral-pink against a grey-white sky and sorry drying leaves affected by hot August days.  I almost lost a baby peach tree, hot and cranky in his plastic bassinet until I trust enough that he can set … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: & Other Stuff

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Susan

Good news:  I find I have already read most of this issue of Confrontation when I first got it, and I remember that this is one that made me mad.  The stories, most of them anyway, take place in Malaysia, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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