Author Archives: Susan

BLOGGING: Too much Maury Povich?

Posted on June 5, 2004 by Susan

Others, all of us, except a few who maybe knew enough to stick to rules and regulations, have wondered if we’ve revealed too much of personal lives and personalities within our words, because our blogs are open journals of our … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Senses

Posted on June 4, 2004 by Susan

At what stage, after how many years of loving use does a book smell sweetly old and wise? Please don’t answer. I suspect but hide from facts like paper quality as scientific reason. Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Timing

Posted on June 4, 2004 by Susan

Balance is the key, and not my strong point; juggling being more my way of life. One crisis at a time; take one a day as needed. Not to exceed two in twenty-four hours. Overdose may cause symptoms of headache, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Appreciation Day

Posted on June 4, 2004 by Susan

Rough day, calm day, heaviness to the air that feels like breathing Bloody Marys with a twist of lime. Child inside thumping impatiently at its shell of patience, determination meets determined walls. Experience doesn’t count here, and the child is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Ending

Posted on June 3, 2004 by Susan

We sometimes rush through the story to read the ending. Sometimes we’re satisfied, sometimes we’re not. The need for a conclusion, yet we never read nor talk about the ending of a life unless a need that overwhelms becomes the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Change of Life

Posted on June 3, 2004 by Susan

Odd morning, picking panties from a drawer without a sign of recognition. Wondering when I got them, since I should be most intimately familiar with them all. Worrying not about a spouse’s indiscretion, but worse; a lack of memory, a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Close, Closer, and Go Away

Posted on June 3, 2004 by Susan

Thinking about friends, and what it took to make them. Like tracks with hurdles thrown down both with purpose or sometimes uncontrolled. Tests to test for tensile strength. Testing both, and more the tester. The few, the many, which is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Not at Warp Speed

Posted on June 3, 2004 by Susan

Nice to know you’re not alone. Typepad’s bloggers are indeed still suffering from sluggish loading in almost all areas–posting and reading included, so please be patient, if you haven’t clicked past us already. Typepad’s growing, because of its normally excellent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: It Never Rains, It Pours

Posted on June 2, 2004 by Susan

Close calls are becoming a way of life for my sister, just back from a traumatic emergency visit to her daughter (the one now sporting a horseshoe shaped scar on her head). Today’s mail brought this e-mail from her: “Hi … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Or not?

Posted on June 2, 2004 by Susan

I cannot excerpt in bits and pieces what is going on at The Great Lettuce Head and Wanderlust, except to say that if you’re interested in time and space, go read their recent entries. Neha just turned twenty-two two days … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Spatial Impairment

Posted on June 2, 2004 by Susan

“Me Talk Pretty This Morning” is a post at Kottke.org that made me smile. Asked for directions, he makes an effort to reply in the man’s native French. A link brings you to a previous post on being directionally dysfunctional. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Coincidence

Posted on June 1, 2004 by Susan

Hop in the car, radio playing “When You’re Strange” by The Doors. Run uptown, gas, deli and postoffice. Seven or eight cars in line at the pumps, I get in before anyone moves because they’re asleep at the wheel, I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Deadlines

Posted on June 1, 2004 by Susan

Just let a submission deadline go by, and I’m feeling pretty lame. All the excuses I’ve been using don’t really justify the result. Lack of time, depression, worries, inspirational reading, stuck on endings—none of them really mean a thing, because … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY? & LITERATURE: Advice

Posted on June 1, 2004 by Susan

Sometimes we need help to understand things, to sort things out, because we’re just operating on mental overload and can’t see it for ourselves. From Cool Tools, this post, Finite and Infinite Games – How to live on a book … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Quiet Day

Posted on May 31, 2004 by Susan

The day was spent half in sunshine, half in showers; half in frameshop, half in gardens pulling white lilac bush babies out like weeds. They grow and spread into the lawn, decapitated by the mower. But around the house and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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