Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: Obsession

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Susan

Like a love affair, I live with a story nearly every minute of days and weeks until I have polished and tweaked and changed and tweaked some more and then it makes no sense to me and I begin to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Friday Night Fun

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Susan

A phone call at eleven a.m. from a couple friends from Massachusetts: Let’s get together tonight.  Sure, I say, how about our house?  I have lasagne made the other night with just two pieces missing, and a garden full of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: A Flash of Readerly

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Susan

Morning learning assistance from backyard contemplation.  I sat down on the backstep and lifted the coffee mug to take a sip, and only then noticed the doe standing still, watching me.  She turned and took two steps, stopped and took … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Comes the Dawn

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Susan

Can’t write.  Can’t read.  Framed a lot.  Thought a lot.  Red sky at morning, take warning.

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REALITY?: Month’s End

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Susan

Well here it is, the end of August, and with it goes all of summer’s dreams.  September starts a season of falling leaves, of things let go that held such promise and kept the heart and hope alive.  Raking up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Finding the Right Words

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Susan

Writing has become a journey of reading signs, marking trails, looking far behind to see where I have been to discover what may be ahead before it happens  Stories can write themselves, but only with skill and experience will they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Weather-minded

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Susan

Four days.  Can’t take the sad sound of rain no more. Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Evening Time

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Susan

Red Tailed Hawk hunting the space beneath the chokecherry trees.  A squeak; he has picked out his supper. The hummingbirds nervous at the feeder; sip and seek, sip and seek, sip and seek the fleet shadow that’s kept them away … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING & REALITY: Spilling One’s Guts

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Susan

Waiting for word on two more opportunities in life before I get back up on my feet.  Laying low, pretending I don’t care much at all.  Nothing worse, even at my height, than to pick yourself up and too late, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: In Advertising

Posted on August 27, 2006 by Susan

Very interesting and rather clever presentation of new media in a local dealer Honda (I think) commercial.  Mixing real video (car and people) with an animated figure (salesman) isn’t new, but the cartoon salesman complaining of being a two-dimensional figure … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Morning Battles

Posted on August 27, 2006 by Susan

Overcast grey clouded sky, puckered as silk pressed by an iron too hot.  Hawk swoops silently through the backyard looking for something that’s not looking for him.  And the hummingbirds on a sugar-high fighting over the feeder.  Natural instinct: territorial … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: CM1 & NCLB

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Susan

First, thanks to if:book for the link to The Children’s Machine, a program now known as CM1 and formerly called One Laptop Per Child.  Though neither a parent nor academic, I’ve found myself so far behind (No Adult Left Behind?) … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: From the Ridiculous…

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Susan

Let me start the day off at this point and slowly progress to the sublime. It is the monthly battle of who has the guts to throw the old toothpaste tube away.  My husband has clearly cheated–notice the dent in … Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Rejection

Posted on August 24, 2006 by Susan

Boy, and I thought I had reason to be depressed about rejection:  Pluto is no longer considered a planet. Imagine how that must feel. Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Listening

Posted on August 24, 2006 by Susan

Husband’s at work, no one to sooth me, smooth out the edges, wrap them around me with their arms.  So I turn to other men, Willie and Waylon, and soon I’m back bopping around. Even these words, some of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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