Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Ah, c’mon!

Posted on July 19, 2005 by Susan

Forgive me, but I’m reading my nutrition stuff and there’s nothing else on TV so I’ve got on "Average Joes:  The Joes Strike Back" and while I don’t know whereabouts we are in this thing with Anna and her male … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Nature and Natural

Posted on July 19, 2005 by Susan

It is no secret that my moods, thoughts and reflections are moved by nature, perhaps the very reason that a weblog suits me for my writing.  A quick flash thunderstorm blew through late this afternoon, followed by the sun to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Learning Something Else

Posted on July 19, 2005 by Susan

Okay, obviously a bad case of the grumpies here and a whine that touches just short of a scream.  Let me explore my feelings, and take you along for the ride. I am fifty-seven years old.  Five years ago I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Quality

Posted on July 19, 2005 by Susan

I’ve just gone through the first 25 of 200 effing slides and I am doing my damnedest to stick with it through the static that just never did go away as promised.  One more freaking week.  I keep repeating that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Early, Very Early Morning

Posted on July 19, 2005 by Susan

No backyard waking up to dawn to greet me and inspire me, only blackness of the first few hours of day.  I sit in the garage, coffee cup in hand, peek through the curtained window on the door and frightened … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Finding New Ways of Saying

Posted on July 18, 2005 by Susan

Outside the door the world is hot and steamy.  What better way to say it?  The time that follows a summer late afternoon thunderstorm that can’t refresh with cooling breezes from the north that blew the rain across the day.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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STORIES: Horizon

Posted on July 18, 2005 by Susan

From the southwest the heavens grumbled deep and long, enough to shiver the ground beneath his feet, though Art could see no dark clouds from his vantage point.  Out west, the mountains rose and shadowed the town an hour earlier, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Learning the Language

Posted on July 18, 2005 by Susan

I thought I understood Squash.  I thought my Butternut was fairly good.  This morning though, I found a twist in the plot that quite surprised me.  A flower that will develop into a squash has budded and bloomed before the … Continue reading →

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STORIES: Horizon

Posted on July 18, 2005 by Susan

You’re free to leave at any time, the woman at the meeting had told them.  And now as Art sat on his back step watching the unusually orange sunset slice the world in two, the words reverberated in his head.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Waiting

Posted on July 17, 2005 by Susan

I held off because I figured this would show up everywhere, but I got a kick out of Jimmy Beck’s (Large Vibrating Egg) brush with the publishing world in his entry, "You Gotta Have Faith…" (Link thanks to The Reading … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Language

Posted on July 17, 2005 by Susan

I woke today and spoke a different tongue.  Poetics drive my sentences, my thoughts.  Somber, why?  The rain?  Grey light makes for the mood but draws the color from its hiding place above the clouds.  Odd indeed. Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Gardening

Posted on July 17, 2005 by Susan

Despite the slight drizzle this morning after a decent rain, I am out in the garden doing a bit of weeding.  Of what I’ve already read on my computer travels this morning, something strikes me as I go down the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Creating a Story

Posted on July 17, 2005 by Susan

Today I feel the urge to knit; I don’t know why.  Or maybe build computers working from the inside out.  Filling shells with boxes, ribbons, wires, as if to dress a Christmas tree then plug it in to light it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Multimedia

Posted on July 16, 2005 by Susan

For the past couple of hours I have been watching a series on the Discovery channel of first, wolves, then polar bears, and after that, a lion pack.  Another nature program series.  Well yes, and no.  This one, Wild Discovery, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Summer Squash

Posted on July 16, 2005 by Susan

I hate to say this, but I’m really not absorbing the wealth of information available in this online Nutrition course.  With an exam every other week and only eight weeks for the course, all I am really doing is learning … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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