Author Archives: Susan

LITERATURE: Amazon

Posted on May 2, 2004 by Susan

Finally added the books mentioned in my previous posts on The Writers’ Festival authors to my Amazon Referral list on the lower right hand column. Check ‘em out. Continue reading →

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REALITY?, WRITING, and watch out: SELF ANALYSIS: Setting a Mood

Posted on May 2, 2004 by Susan

Just a real quickie post because I have lots more to say, but will have to step back down to reality for a couple hours to get some dumb reality necessary tasks out of the way before I can return … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: content

Posted on May 1, 2004 by Susan

I cannot reconcile the two the clintons and the chickadees the kerrys and the kin of yeats the george and lilac bushes. Philosophy can infiltrate politicals and poeticals to flourish as an apple tree among the weeds of eden. (Lost … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: May Day

Posted on May 1, 2004 by Susan

Since dawn my mind is filled with poppycock and pretzels, and wanting to devour yet needing still to loose itself from grounding as the daily theme. I need to dig my fingers into earth, perhaps in gardening, to bolster up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Poetry

Posted on May 1, 2004 by Susan

The Joy of Flying The feeling is of lightness and the unburdening of life that’s left behind to melt and spread upon the sheath of earth, and be drawn in and absorbed within its core while freely flying far above … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Painting Words

Posted on May 1, 2004 by Susan

I need a softer bristled brush, and oily pigments that will flow onto forgotten pastel canvas the image of the ghostly child that walked the lonely beach some thirty years ago. It haunts me still, and yet can I, with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Thinking in Poetics

Posted on May 1, 2004 by Susan

It is difficult for me to study and match in words the progress made in literature, especially in poetics. Again and again in mood and tone I seek regression rather than advance upon a world that seems too harsh to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Using Poetics

Posted on May 1, 2004 by Susan

There is, I think, a certain sadness that lurks beneath the greening of the earth. The ones that don’t return are greyly obvious and beg by that alone for notice they escaped by winter dullness for the pruning shears to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Senses and the Nonsenses

Posted on May 1, 2004 by Susan

It has become near impossible to be a picture framer, a cook, a laundress, a runner of vacuum cleaning machinery. The convolutions of my brain have filled and puffed out to a bulging flatness that threatens to crack the skull … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Flyin’ High!

Posted on April 30, 2004 by Susan

I’ll write more about this later, but just had a phenomenal surprise phone call from an old friend–best friends in high school old, know all your secrets type of best–and she’s been living in Tennessee since 1970 or so and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Insurance Coverage

Posted on April 30, 2004 by Susan

Simply cannot let this one get by without sharing it with you, and you all know how much respect and admiration I have for the insurance industry: MEDICAL INSURANCE EXPLAINED Q. What does HMO stand for? A. This is actually … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & BLOGGING: Write, write! But write right!

Posted on April 30, 2004 by Susan

Within Spinning I have followed both my personal writing progress as well as that of others and have posted many times on what I feel are the benefits of utilizing a weblog as discipline to hone writing skills. I have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Speaking

Posted on April 30, 2004 by Susan

Ooh-ooh! Still practicing reading my poem en español because the presentations have been put off until next week, but guess what? After four semesters I think I may have started to learn to roll my r’s! I had all but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: This Day

Posted on April 30, 2004 by Susan

On this day, Fantasy Willie was born many years ago. Although Willie Nelson has since discovered that his real birthday is May 1st, I choose (because I can do so in fantasy) to retain his original birth date of April … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Grade Rationing

Posted on April 29, 2004 by Susan

Via Jerz’s Literacy Log, this April 27th CBS/Associated Press release on the Princeton Faculty Approves grade-rationing plan just wouldn’t leave me be. I don’t pretend to understand the entire problem and I don’t have the benefit of working from within … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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