Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Workshopping

Posted on April 22, 2004 by Susan

At our Narratives meeting last night, we workshopped three poems by different members of the group, and so many interesting views and viewpoints were brought up that continued in my mind well past adjournment. In studying not only poetry but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Sotto Voce

Posted on April 22, 2004 by Susan

On Pomegranates and Paper, dear Loretta has found her “voice” in writing, and I am absolutely green with envy, even as I fall back onto clichés to express it. To be honest, I am excited and inspired by revelations such … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Word Meanings

Posted on April 22, 2004 by Susan

After a very informative and exciting meeting of our writing group last night, I awoke this morning with the remnant of a dream that happened some time during my sleep. I recall a flash of a dictionary page and in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Production Quotas

Posted on April 21, 2004 by Susan

Last night, just ten minutes or so ago, ended a day of focus that kept a lot of other things at bay. Cookies, dozens and dozens; four different kinds. Poems, a couple, two or three; all the same. Answers; just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Self Analysis: Dreaming

Posted on April 20, 2004 by Susan

The clouds were couch and pillows to one weary such as I, So several times, I sat and looked around and almost, but not long enough, but just before I lived springing leaks soon rained me back to ground. Mist … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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SELF ANALYSIS: Keep Out!

Posted on April 20, 2004 by Susan

As I mentioned once before, if you go by the Category Title of each entry you can maneuver around my saggy diaper days. Of course, I have also contradicted myself by posting just a few entries down as well as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS & BLOGGING: What to do?

Posted on April 20, 2004 by Susan

Just kind of bummed out this morning. I have something typed up for posting and I’m copping out on it because it’s relative to the prior posting. Sad part is, it itself is a cop-out, but I’m even worried about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Off On a Tangent

Posted on April 19, 2004 by Susan

Just noticed something else to think about; the Off on a Tangent title–is that an oxymoron? But right now, I am all het up about two topics and don’t have time to sit and put them down in words unless … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: FAD

Posted on April 19, 2004 by Susan

Over at Wanderlust, Neha (of scholarship and governor’s award fame) has written a post about her personal discovery of addiction to blogging, and how it has changed her life. Honest and concerned, Neha questions the effects on her future, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Ooooooohhhhh, Yes!

Posted on April 18, 2004 by Susan

I knew that we could count on the language experts to provide us with the words that progressing technology demands. From Rethabile Masilo at On English: BLORGASM {BLORG-asm} /BLORG-uhzm/ noun. The acme of excitement attained when a blogger logs on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Tip Jars

Posted on April 18, 2004 by Susan

I ask this because I don’t really understand it, not because I’m questioning the ethics or etiquette: Why do some weblogs ask for donations? It seems that with free services available, or the relative inexpensive cost of even more elaborate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Politics (!)

Posted on April 18, 2004 by Susan

For a moment there, I thought that Kerry had chosen Hilary as his running mate–it’s not true, is it? If I must choose the lesser evil come November, I must honestly say that the lesser evil plus a big one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & BLOGGING: Style Shifts

Posted on April 18, 2004 by Susan

Well obviously I am in a creative mood, and so for as long as it lasts, I suppose my posts will retain that literary flavor. Imagery abounds, incomplete sentences, feelings, approaching your senses with tastes, and smells and making you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: A Walk on The First Sunday of Spring

Posted on April 18, 2004 by Susan

I open one more window, but it doesn’t work. I must take myself outside to breathe in the season. Leaving forty years tucked into forty jars of custard, like the apricots you hide in old prune boxes when you no … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: A Drive on The First Sunday of Spring

Posted on April 18, 2004 by Susan

Forsythias, oh Forsythias! Greek gloriously named seers, yellow-mouthed mini-trumpets of Spring. Blond Daffadowndillies from brown bulb roots grow, after applying Spring Clairol they are ready to show. Gone, I see, are the lavendar crocus lips that quenched the thirst of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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