Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Of Ice and Books and Neighbors

Posted on January 8, 2005 by Susan

A mixture of emotion on this day, thoughts hyperlinked to memories spanning years.  But I need a few more moments just to savor them, and in a little while, I’ll share. Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: End of Story

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Susan

Interesting feelings at the end of the story when gaming.  The sudden surprise twist of the proganist’s death, and a pang of guilt and horror; after all, I was responsible for him and spent a couple weeks with him and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Another Body in Silent Hill 2

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Susan

Make room in the cemetary; Some strange monster thing with a huge cone head doing something even stranger to a non-headed mannequin just killed me (my character, James) with a humongous knife.  Game over. I’m bummed.  It’s taken me forever … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Evening Time

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Susan

It’s just after 6:30 p.m. and we had a chicken stir-fry (hate to tell you, but the best stir fry comes from cleaning out the fridge, and the chicken was salvaged out of a soup my husband made that was, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Winter Fun

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Susan

Just spent three hours cleaning the driveway–chopping the ice that developed due to a corporate decision we made as a team to let the last two inches of snow remain as a barrier for the sleet that formed a shell … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Mid Afternoons of Winter

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Susan

Good thing I like to write early in the morning, while the snow is still fairly fresh and clean and white.  Otherwise, my poetic words might not come out quite as pretty. I used to believe that our little plot … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Morning Vision

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Susan

It’s often that I shut my eyes to see the morning darkness wake in sounds like slushing cars going by, and I know the snow has melted.  I see the dripping drops form into icicles that hang from drainpipes by … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Patience/Impatience

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Susan

Contrary to Ronni’s feelings that we choose to slow down as we get wiser and older, I find myself having developed a sense of urgency about a lot of things. At the same time as I’ve mellowed about dust and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Health Alert

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Susan

As a onetime volunteer ambulance driver and EMT, I can’t tell you how happy I am to have come across this article about using USB drives just as Medic Alert bracelets giving medical information.  Once in charge of a blood … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Simile & Personification

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Susan

Was thinking this morning about writing elements, and in particular, about my own cockamamie way of using simile in conjunction with personification. For example, in a recent poem about the wind, I compared it to a gypsy juggler.  Most people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Memories

Posted on January 6, 2005 by Susan

As I put away all the things of Christmas, and of the year past as well, I come across two little figures of a snowman and snowwoman, smiling, dressed in gay green and red scarves and little more.  This is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Technology-driven

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

Time to admit I have a problem.  I live for my computer. While my winters are usually spent in a semi-hibernative mode, rousing when driven by need before snuggling back into a stupor on the couch at all odd hours … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Silent Hill 2

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

Good grief.   Relative to the post below re the mature worker and working (playing) at New Media, I’m getting all the self-fulfillment and heart-pounding exercise I need. Can’t believe I’m so hooked on this thing to the exclusion of everything … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Its prospects for the older writer?

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

One thing I have noticed in the past year of blogging, is that one of the more common reasons for closing weblogs is the feeling that one has run out of things to say. Now this is probably more true … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Shower Thoughts

Posted on January 5, 2005 by Susan

Tried to recapture that old creative feeling in the shower this a.m., where thoughts, it seems, are caught within each droplet joining into wet sheets of warmth that run from head to toe and spark up all the senses. My … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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