Category Archives: WRITING

WRITING & REALITY: Morning Meeting

Posted on July 23, 2004 by Susan

Backyard early morning like a New York City Chinese laundry circa 1927. Close your eyes and listen to the current country version of cotton rope on metal clothesline reels pulled in jerks to bring clothes in or push them out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Mood Set

Posted on July 22, 2004 by Susan

Uh-oh. Getting a feeling of quiet desperation, all hope lost, dreams dissolved in the acid rain of daily living. Can’t share it here, it belongs to someone named Rachel. She’s crossing a field to a river and needs to be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Night Stories

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Susan

Nighttime is sounds you don’t hear in the sunshine. Tree frogs rule in the dark. Leaves don’t just flutter, they rustle instead; long grasses whisper, not bend in the breeze. Flying bugs click against clapboards, buzzing is mosquitoes, not bees. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Voice

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Susan

My friend and professor, Steve Ersinghaus has hinted in a post on his weblog that I may finally have found my long-sought-after voice. I would point you to the post, but it’s embarrassing in its generousity as much as it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Experience

Posted on July 21, 2004 by Susan

Some time around four a.m. I fell through time. Deja vu in future tense, I feel at home within the skin surrounding what I’m guessing is a soul. Or maybe just a mind that is a four-drawer vertical filing cabinet … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Night Stories

Posted on July 20, 2004 by Susan

The moment my head touched the pillow I was asleep. No, that’s a lie. First I cried. Continue reading →

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WRITING: Discipline and Focus

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Susan

It seems I still am chunking it, writing bits and pieces that are unrelated, scattered like a shotgun at the world. Perhaps my mind is wizened by age and not the wiser, unable to focus to any depth on more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: R comes before W

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Susan

Oh boy, oh joy. The mailman broughteth the new issue of Confrontation. Just when I’m feeling inadequate and uninnovative as a writer, imaginative and creative as the slowly slug. (slow + lowly = slowly, adj.) Why doth the pain and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Fantasies and Feelings

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Susan

Lost the muse in mundane daily doings. Technology, creative and intense, sober, serious. Not fanciful, however, though perhaps in dreaming soft where knights fight dragons, bad men in black armor, and the princess calls down to her love all dressed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY: Lost

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Susan

Maybe it was left behind in tangled sheets, no backwards glance to notice it, no value given at the time to make it that important. Maybe it was hidden ‘neath the sofa cushions with the Catcher in the Rye I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Soul

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Susan

From Andy, at Older and Growing, an excerpt from a series he is posting called, Soul: Part I: “There is but one essential prerequisite that must be fulfilled in order to be able to communicate, and it has very little … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY? & WRITING: Environment

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Susan

There are some things we need to know, we need to see, we need to feel. I learn by watching, seeking meaning in events beyond my fingertips, within the circle of my vision, what is ruled by that outside of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & TECHNOLOGY: Wired

Posted on July 16, 2004 by Susan

Computer problems, like a snowball rolling down a hill, gather quirks and kinks along the way that end up in a massive ball of twisting wires and cables at journey’s end. Modem dies in one and moneywise it’s best to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Fall Semester

Posted on July 15, 2004 by Susan

Like bands of single gypsies our children pack their wagons with the growing coolness of the mornings, it is something sparked by the sooner setting sun that sets them on their path. Restless, anxious, off they go to hone their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Moving Pictures

Posted on July 15, 2004 by Susan

The fast falling thin rain invites a squinting look within binoculars of hands to reveal a 1930’s scratched and jumpy movie reel of life. Continue reading →

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