Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Priorities

Posted on December 26, 2004 by Susan

And writing here is one of them, but there are a few gottado’s before I can sit down and tell you about my list of reading to do, my Christmas, and the acquisition of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Macromedia Studio.  But … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Reality: And Unreality

Posted on December 25, 2004 by Susan

Guess what toys I got for Christmas–I call this one, my first, “Liquified Cars”

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REALITY: Wishes

Posted on December 25, 2004 by Susan

Merry Christmas everyone, and my best wishes for a New Year filled with good health, joy and knowledge. Continue reading →

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REALITY: Christmas Eve

Posted on December 24, 2004 by Susan

Update:  The propane man came, and I am no longer a virgin.  Hey–wouldn’t you for heat?  It takes five minutes of holding down the pilot button before you can fire up the stove; body heat helps.  (And oh yeah, he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Combined with Fantasy, Of course!

Posted on December 23, 2004 by Susan

Willie singing "Take me down, little Susie, take me down…" And Neha didn’t care much for my cowboy music yesterday?  While it is true, perhaps, that being here alone listening to Willie or Waylon (oooh-that sexy gruffness!) may make my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & REALITY: People Layers

Posted on December 23, 2004 by Susan

Random thoughts this morning as I dress to start the day, looking at myself in new media methods of layering and what each layer means. When I was young, I wore a lot of hand-me-downs; from two older sisters, often … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Christmas Thinkings

Posted on December 23, 2004 by Susan

Is it over yet–the shortest day?  Today has dawned with the dawning that the days are shortest when I need them longest, just before the Christmas crunch.  Traditions that I’ve clung to–cabinets of cookies produced for three weeks prior, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Exhaustion

Posted on December 22, 2004 by Susan

And pain.  Standing from seven a.m. until ten-thirty at night on cement.  Holes poked in fingers from wire-wrapping hangers.  Hands dried out from Windex, starting to crack.  Mind numb from guessing who’ll walk through the door first, most likely the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Morning Jaunts

Posted on December 22, 2004 by Susan

I sit and wait for the show to begin in the early morning theater of my dark garage.  Eyes flickering over the panoramic screen embedded in my side of the overhead doors.  No movement, a faint twittering of an early-rising … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Faith (Part 2)

Posted on December 21, 2004 by Susan

I too, may well have kept on walking; for even in the midst of mid-life crisis and my resolve to be a better man, there was nothing I could do about spilt wine.  But as I neared Him, He looked … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & REALITY: Applying the Layers

Posted on December 21, 2004 by Susan

Rarely will I make New Year’s resolutions; rarer still that the few made are kept.  Stubborn and resistive by nature, it always seemed more vital that I rebel against my own law and maintain that most annoying part of me. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Lucky

Posted on December 20, 2004 by Susan

My niece, Erica, came out of this one with a bad headache & bruises:

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REALITY: Food for the Soul

Posted on December 20, 2004 by Susan

Cold, shivering; need dark chocolate to melt within my veins to soothe my heart.  Saturday’s Whitman’s gift is gone–was yesterday, evenly divided: two layers, two days. Twenty years of Christmases spent in coffee, cigarettes, cold and chocolate.  Running on caffeine … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: First Snow

Posted on December 20, 2004 by Susan

It falls with a fury.  Nature a mad painter Pollock-like tossing, swirling white specks of paint to cover the green canvas of earth.  Leaving streaks of greys and blacks intercepting branches that curl and mean something.  Is it insistence of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Mood Enhancers

Posted on December 20, 2004 by Susan

Willie and Waylon do it for me.  Spent and will spend the rest of my life until Christmas Day in the frameshop working to get the orders out (and money in!), but that doesn’t mean my mind doesn’t wander away … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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