Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Read! Write!

Posted on March 14, 2004 by Susan

I think I know why writers write. It’s not because we’re not socially communicative–I may not be, but really don’t believe that that’s the thread that links our beads together. I believe that if you have a way of putting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Cook! Bake!

Posted on March 14, 2004 by Susan

This is a typical-woman thing to do, and I don’t care who hears me say it: Why do women still believe that cooking and baking will cure everything from the common cold to cancer, and even beyond? Sneeze, and we’ll … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Devil is Real

Posted on March 14, 2004 by Susan

Just realized how hard and heavy I’ve been hit with what I’ve come to term my “devils” lately, and it seems to be more than coincidence, or perhaps I’ve simply adopted them by way of explanation. They’ve shown up in … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Literal Travel

Posted on March 13, 2004 by Susan

I’m back and feeling better for a couple days of traveling. And oh, the places I have been! I’ve been running back and forth between England and Malaysia, my Land Rover stuffed with my belongings, and determined to bring me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Morality

Posted on March 13, 2004 by Susan

Excellent argument going on at The Forager regarding artistic denial and censorship. While I might tend to think that some moral structure should be in place, I agree that it should be placed within the individual, and not left to … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Time

Posted on March 11, 2004 by Susan

I’m heading out for a couple days, and should be back here some time next week. If you’re new to Spinning, check out some of the archives, or Talespinning, and keep up with the links to some of the great … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Politics (Yes, really.)

Posted on March 10, 2004 by Susan

I really don’t want to get into this, but it well-covers a subject that has been bugging me a bit since I first stepped onto a college campus. At Asymmetrical Information, there is an entry entitled, “A Hell of a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Life, Part II

Posted on March 9, 2004 by Susan

Well I’ve done it; put myself in boxes and stacked them up on shelves (good God, I hope I put them in the proper order!). Time now is accountable, and mental alarm clocks have been set, and flexibility built in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Life

Posted on March 9, 2004 by Susan

Reluctant to shut the water off in the shower, feeling the safety of its enveloping wet sheet over both body and mind—an urge to crawl back in the womb? But thoughts go where thoughts will, and there comes the odd … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Wronging

Posted on March 9, 2004 by Susan

Truly, I should know better. But when do I ever catch on until it is almost too late? For the past week or two I’ve done little by way of writing–rewriting, that is–because my thoughts are coming in poetic lines … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Poetry

Posted on March 8, 2004 by Susan

Professor Ersinghaus will cringe when he reads this one, but I believe he’ll understand and forgive me, both for rhyme and an attempt at hypertext poetry: Dinnerplate dahlias huckleberry tea red hot peppers and poetry Bewildering Stories bewildering lives morning … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: The Race

Posted on March 8, 2004 by Susan

And they’re neck in neck! It’s J-Walk! Google! J-Walk! Google! And J-Walk is pulling ahead! Folks, this is exciting–these are the champions fighting it out… And Google’s trying to come in on the inside! But it’s J-Walk! J-Walk over the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Poetry

Posted on March 7, 2004 by Susan

Also on Talespinning, but I like this: The Idealist Cloudhoppers are fragile here now and gone, with heads of spun sugar and fingers of glass they tell tales of faeries and all things with wings and mountains as seen from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Fevered Spring

Posted on March 7, 2004 by Susan

The pull of seasons is upon us, and we respond just as the earth and animals and all other living things, despite our grand intelligence that is no match for it. I’ve been thinking in poetic form and that, I’m … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Vestal Virgin and Communion

Posted on March 7, 2004 by Susan

The first man that I ever did lie beneath looked like Waylon Jennings; hardened by experience and softened by knowledge, an artist and a musician. I made him draw a penis because I could not understand how a simple snip … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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