Author Archives: Susan

BLOGGING: A Writer’s Journey

Posted on June 20, 2004 by Susan

June has been a month of personal losses, and the closing down of Book of Life is another I take to heart. Denny and his wife Kathleen have become faraway friends that I will cherish and respect forever, wonderful people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Fathers

Posted on June 20, 2004 by Susan

A very happy Father’s Day to all; fathers of children, fathers in spirit, fathers of ideas, fathers of science, religion, history and art, single moms, children who must be the caretakers of their parents, and anyone else who holds dear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Body of Life

Posted on June 19, 2004 by Susan

I’ve said it here before, but the fact is that in our family, the women in particular are emotionally strongest when facing the emotionally most devastating. The normal, more trivial upsets in life take chips out, hurt, anger and annoy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Ideas

Posted on June 19, 2004 by Susan

All I need to know of life I learn in my backyard. This morning I watched as the daddy cardinal came to the feeder, but stopped to chirp at me first from the bush close by. I told him I’d … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Being Real

Posted on June 19, 2004 by Susan

With a brief apology for yesterday’s language, both in my misuse of the word prosaic and my proper use of a four-letter word, I offer nothing other than honesty in feelings and admitting when I’m wrong, fiction where appropriate, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Terrorism

Posted on June 18, 2004 by Susan

Fuck. The bastards killed the hostage. Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Affirmation

Posted on June 18, 2004 by Susan

One of the many benefits of blogging is validation of whatever else you do or say out in the real world. I have just, for example, realized that I have made a complete jackass of myself thinking I know something … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: When It Comes and What To Do With It

Posted on June 18, 2004 by Susan

We are fortunate in the weblogging world to have writers willing to share their experience. From Joe at The Word Foundry, in Fertility (Joe, this is why permalinks are good things!) brings us an entry into the mind of a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Great Ideas

Posted on June 18, 2004 by Susan

This is not a new thing of course, but I must say that I love what Rethabile has done with hypertext on his blog, On English. Several words within an entry are highlighted hypertext that give a definition when the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Acquiring the Habits

Posted on June 17, 2004 by Susan

My former English professor kindly blogged a referral to my blog entry of June 14th, REALITY?: Neighborhoods, which was simply a short essay on a nest of cardinals in a bush (actually a rhododendron, but changed to laurel because the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Marking Time

Posted on June 17, 2004 by Susan

Yesterday was our fourteenth wedding anniversary. We celebrated with MacDonald’s rather than the planned lobster. But we’re both alive and okay. Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Strong Emotion

Posted on June 16, 2004 by Susan

I hate almost no one. I have disagreed with, temporarily disliked strongly–very strongly–but have never hated any person with any real passionate hatred in my life. There have been people who may have been mean, rude, unjust, or just plain … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Neighborhoods

Posted on June 15, 2004 by Susan

The neighbors were having quite a row earlier this evening. I think I may have set it off by wandering too close to their yard when watering some parched petunias that couldn’t wait for “possible scattered thunderstorms” to possibly scatter … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Subtlety

Posted on June 15, 2004 by Susan

Every time I sink my head in shame at losing what is left of any fight in me, I clearly see the ground and find that I’m still standing, and my eyes are far above it. Ever more nearsighted as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Masks

Posted on June 15, 2004 by Susan

This is interesting, and certainly nothing I’m proud of, but I believe I scare people. My mood of late has undoubtedly been somber, beset by threatening clouds that have hung over my head for months and blocked the few healing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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