Author Archives: Susan

Writing: Senses

Posted on July 3, 2004 by Susan

For months she’d felt the weight of life upon her body, bearing down to bow a head and slope bare shoulders once held straight and proud. Her heavy mind felt like a ball of granite, knowing only one way to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Colors

Posted on July 2, 2004 by Susan

The morning started with the yellowish taupey grey skies of a moving storm of clouds that washed the earth in sprinkling rain throughout the night to flashing lights and loud applause. Left behind were wisps of creamy gossamer that even … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: That Elusive Voice Again

Posted on July 1, 2004 by Susan

In today’s New York Times, the article, “Could Your Voice Betray You?” by Douglas Heingartner covers the aspects of lie-detector testing and its value in measuring voice stress to analyze whether a person may be telling the truth, particularly used … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Sun Slowly Rising

Posted on June 30, 2004 by Susan

The sun burns a hole in the wall of maple leaves to the east, and I half expect an open wound to be left behind as it inches up from the horizon to reach full freedom at the tippity-top of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: As One Reads

Posted on June 30, 2004 by Susan

Katey at One Good Bumblebee says, “And if I write out Lisa Jarnot’s complete Sea Lyrics longhand because mere reading isn’t good enough dammit, it’s ok. And if I can’t read a book without holding a pen in one hand … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: In Poetry

Posted on June 28, 2004 by Susan

To Chris, with love … Tonight I fell asleep, not knowing, thinking still; wakened by the bells that bring good news of friends, or strangers selling things and never had I wanted more an offer, something trivial, unnecessary, unwanted more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Viewpoints

Posted on June 27, 2004 by Susan

An ostrich sticks its head into the sand, fooling those around him into thinking he is hiding from the world, seeking refuge, a comfort of the mind at least. I follow him in theory because I think that may be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Stories

Posted on June 26, 2004 by Susan

The clouds are coming in, moving over, moving past. Silently, although they may, I suppose, be arguing up there among themselves for all I know; I am too far below to hear them now. A drop of rain left here … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Life after Death

Posted on June 26, 2004 by Susan

With all that has been happening in the past half-year, I have been doing some serious thinking about life, and how to use it to whatever advantages it offers, and death, as it must be considered in how one conducts … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?, WRITING, & BLOGGING: Unprolificality

Posted on June 25, 2004 by Susan

Because quite a bit is going on right now, I have not been posting as often nor as many. This may continue for a few days, until life settles in a bit and I get back on some sort of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Fiction

Posted on June 24, 2004 by Susan

Let me tell you something that I’m learning, and see if you have found it out yet for yourself, or disagree: The importance of fiction in its story form and poems, is the value of the maybe, the could be, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Ideas

Posted on June 23, 2004 by Susan

Ideas run around like children in my head, demanding each their needs fulfilled at once. The oldest just needs hemming of a prom gown, a four-in-hand figured out and tied. Hunger met by milk or french fries plain and easy, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Battleworn

Posted on June 22, 2004 by Susan

The war is being fought on many fronts, the skies are lit on all the points of compasses in every language. Eternally, the past runs concurrent with the future, and the present is a spontaneous combustion spark that feeds itself … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY? & WRITING: A Tuesday in June

Posted on June 22, 2004 by Susan

Early on, as was predicted by The Weatherman the night before, the clouds hang as twisted sheets upon the clothesline of the morning sky. Grey and dingy, somehow old and worn but serviceable still. Bleaching lies to whiten only weaken … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Monday

Posted on June 21, 2004 by Susan

Colder than it should be on a late June morning. Things to do are planned and halted by the sharp, cool beauty of the day. Stop and watch: The blues are bluer and white clouds billow out in brightness in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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