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Author Archives: Susan
REALITY: Insurance
Bills for pills and spills arrive, discounted by the gods as superfluous. Cut them in half, take one every three days, live just a little less longer. Health care, the American way. Continue reading
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REALITY & WRITING: A Different Morning
White quiet morning, left to the lords of the night. Like vampires they claim the sunless sky to fly freely, beaking at bugs unaware of the difference that dawned on this day. Treefrogs are peeping in coolness of night, ignoring … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY: Eye to Eye
How can we not agree, on what seems so obvious; the line goes from wrong to right, bad to good, here to there. In facing each other, I see with my right eye—which is that on your left; maybe that … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY: Friends
Pat and I met as sophomores in high school, she being transferred from another local school. We were such opposites: She, tall, blonde, extroverted, funloving to the point of peeing her pants when she laughed hard; me, short, light brown … Continue reading
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REALITY: Language
Honest, I am trying not to get riled up, so I waited a bit with this one until I could laugh about it. this article in Slate (via Fafblog) describes the Dairy Queen dilemna of finding themselves being offensive in … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING: Ego
Tough one to call. Do we need the applause? Do we admit it? Do we sink into despair without the pat on the head, do we act like we are so as to impose? Big egos often cover low self-esteem. … Continue reading Continue reading
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CURRENT AFFAIRS & WRITING: Or not…
All I wrote yesterday was a post on unpatriotism, (I know, but I like the word), political correctness, extreme liberalism, open mindedness, allegiance, blindness, and checking out the facts. It wasn’t written well, it wasn’t thoroughly researched, and quite honestly, … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING: Stepping up to a New Plateau
Levels of Learning; obvious, no? But reading and writing are open to learning forever and yet we were quite capable of both by age six or seven. The newness in the style of writing I am currently producing is just … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING: REAL Writing
There are a couple of things I need do before I lose track of them, and luckily, both are in the same place: Dan at The Reading Experience toots his own horn in this entry about being published in the … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY: Laundry
Head down the cellar for the jeans in the dryer, bottomless, showered and dried. What’s this—a fiver? A five-dollar bill? How nifty to start off the day. Folding in piles, his long ones and mine, some cutoffs, two shirts and … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY & WRITING: War
The backyard is under attack. Two titans face off in a challenge: man against nature, nature the stronger, more willful, experienced; man, ever cunning, inventive and cruel. By land, sea and air, troops fly into battle; black wings directing hits … Continue reading Continue reading
WRITING & REALITY: The Ageing Process
Connect the dots of decades with lines of learning. Ten is joyful, twenty smug, and thirty is simply learning to survive. Forty is a milestone mark of halfway there; turning round to understand the footprints on the trail. Fifty is … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING: Growing up
Good writing ages, like body and mind from which it is drawn and writ down. Bubbles of youth toy with fables of fairies and angels and elves and balloons. Happiness lost with the first burst of sadness, a doll with … Continue reading Continue reading
WRITING: Tweaking
It’s different, just different now. The words, they don’t flow as they used to. In stories, at least. Used to be that I could sit down and write for a day or two and a tale would be told, but … Continue reading Continue reading
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REALITY & WRITING: Combining the Two
Climbing back up the ladder again and again, but this time not looking down. Reachable rooftops lead to leaping tall buildings–though seldom by most, in that one single bound. Deadlines are special, alarms going off; shaking and waking the sleeper. … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology