Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Identity Crisis

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Susan

Going through my head today because, I suppose, I should put some Willie on instead: "School bells ring and children sing It’s back to Robert Hall againMother knows for better clothesIt’s back to Robert Hall again." I’ve lost one of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Will I Remember?

Posted on August 27, 2005 by Susan

Racing like a madwoman pickng stringbeans and deadheading petunias, portulacas.  Cutting fingers instead of glass in the frameshop as I wrestle with a print and frame that covers more square feet than me. Will I know enough next lifetime to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Short stories and Interactive Fiction

Posted on August 26, 2005 by Susan

Back into short story mode, I pulled out Confrontation No. 84/85.  Don’t laugh–this is the Fall 03/Winter 04 issue. I’d love to write a novel, but even in my own life it seems I live in short story format.  A … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Metaphor

Posted on August 26, 2005 by Susan

What made me think the dance would be enough?  To waltz around the ballroom, gleaming wood like colored ice, or boogy with the beat of native instinct, drums of rumbling deep within or of the heart.  Ballerina slippers touching toetips … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Changes and Cycles

Posted on August 23, 2005 by Susan

Cool September crisp evening air this last week of summer’s August.  Thinking of jeans this morning with uncut-off bellbottom legs.  Thinking of how I have always wanted long legs, a lamp post instead of a fire hydrant feel.  In my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Cave Wanted

Posted on August 22, 2005 by Susan

The past couple of days have caught me in the middle of a sad legal battle, so when I came home and found Mark’s honest critique on my Literature post  as well as a brouhaha on Marginal Revolution and Econlog … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Value

Posted on August 20, 2005 by Susan

What is the meaning of sunshine, green grass and flowers?  What do they cost in a life?  Taking stock of all, where do they sit in the grand portfolio–are they up there on top with the rugs and the couches … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Reconstruction

Posted on August 19, 2005 by Susan

Have one more pc up and running for the shop, although I haven’t yet tried to save the data from the dead main drive I’ve taken out.  I have this one up to Windows 98, although it’s thoroughly confused because … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Multitasking Life

Posted on August 19, 2005 by Susan

Last evening I noticed a flutter at the feeder and thought it to be a very hungry bird that tried to get the seeds from inside the feeder out of reach.  He hustled back and forth a while and then … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Metaphor

Posted on August 18, 2005 by Susan

Long ago I walked into a garden, greeted by a blur of colored jewels laid out on lush velvet shades of greenery, entranced by perfumed air, I stopped a while.  Wandering to marvel at the details of a pleated petal … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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PEOPLE: Thoroughly Modern Millie

Posted on August 18, 2005 by Susan

A great big Happy Birthday to Millie at My Mom’s Blog–she turned 80 today and is as active and interesting a blogger as ever there be! Continue reading →

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REALITY: Me vs. The Big Guys

Posted on August 18, 2005 by Susan

Oh I do love small victories, and this one turned into a big one for lotsa little folk like me. A couple years ago I was a payment behind on my SBC yellow page advertising for the frameshop.  I usually … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Memory Two Lane Highway

Posted on August 17, 2005 by Susan

From the north hills country to the shore, spots along the way I’ve been before.  Route 8 south, first exit down the Rod & Gun Club, next where Louis lived–he’s now married and in Virginia.  Next one down my father-in-law, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Back to my Roots

Posted on August 17, 2005 by Susan

Sometimes flowers, grasses, weeds and even an occasional errant tomato will grow from seeds dropped in the native soil by the mother plant, defying tiller, birds and wind to grab and claim its little plot of earth while we move … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Nature Up Close

Posted on August 16, 2005 by Susan

Well that was kind of neat.  We were just sitting out back after a lovely pork roast and gravy dinner (done on the grill) and admiring the coral pink and aqua sky of sunset that slowly faded to colorless dusk.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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