Category Archives: WRITING

WRITING: As One Reads

Posted on June 30, 2004 by Susan

Katey at One Good Bumblebee says, “And if I write out Lisa Jarnot’s complete Sea Lyrics longhand because mere reading isn’t good enough dammit, it’s ok. And if I can’t read a book without holding a pen in one hand … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Viewpoints

Posted on June 27, 2004 by Susan

An ostrich sticks its head into the sand, fooling those around him into thinking he is hiding from the world, seeking refuge, a comfort of the mind at least. I follow him in theory because I think that may be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Stories

Posted on June 26, 2004 by Susan

The clouds are coming in, moving over, moving past. Silently, although they may, I suppose, be arguing up there among themselves for all I know; I am too far below to hear them now. A drop of rain left here … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?, WRITING, & BLOGGING: Unprolificality

Posted on June 25, 2004 by Susan

Because quite a bit is going on right now, I have not been posting as often nor as many. This may continue for a few days, until life settles in a bit and I get back on some sort of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Fiction

Posted on June 24, 2004 by Susan

Let me tell you something that I’m learning, and see if you have found it out yet for yourself, or disagree: The importance of fiction in its story form and poems, is the value of the maybe, the could be, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Ideas

Posted on June 23, 2004 by Susan

Ideas run around like children in my head, demanding each their needs fulfilled at once. The oldest just needs hemming of a prom gown, a four-in-hand figured out and tied. Hunger met by milk or french fries plain and easy, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Battleworn

Posted on June 22, 2004 by Susan

The war is being fought on many fronts, the skies are lit on all the points of compasses in every language. Eternally, the past runs concurrent with the future, and the present is a spontaneous combustion spark that feeds itself … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY? & WRITING: A Tuesday in June

Posted on June 22, 2004 by Susan

Early on, as was predicted by The Weatherman the night before, the clouds hang as twisted sheets upon the clothesline of the morning sky. Grey and dingy, somehow old and worn but serviceable still. Bleaching lies to whiten only weaken … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & WRITING: Ideas

Posted on June 19, 2004 by Susan

All I need to know of life I learn in my backyard. This morning I watched as the daddy cardinal came to the feeder, but stopped to chirp at me first from the bush close by. I told him I’d … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: When It Comes and What To Do With It

Posted on June 18, 2004 by Susan

We are fortunate in the weblogging world to have writers willing to share their experience. From Joe at The Word Foundry, in Fertility (Joe, this is why permalinks are good things!) brings us an entry into the mind of a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Acquiring the Habits

Posted on June 17, 2004 by Susan

My former English professor kindly blogged a referral to my blog entry of June 14th, REALITY?: Neighborhoods, which was simply a short essay on a nest of cardinals in a bush (actually a rhododendron, but changed to laurel because the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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SELF ANALYSIS & WRITING: Which Me Am I Now?

Posted on June 13, 2004 by Susan

Psychology and Philosophy are twins, I think. Both force the questions, “What is the mind? What is real, and what is not?” Freud probed the mind to propose (loosely translated) that many lived inside one single mind, and colored how … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Earth

Posted on June 10, 2004 by Susan

The earth is like my body, but known and used far more and longer leaving wounds that heal with time and patience, just as I. Frozen cold and hard in winter months; fed by thawing rain to soften hills and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING, SELF-ANALYSIS: Stop

Posted on June 10, 2004 by Susan

“There’s something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear…” “Stop, hey, what’s that sound Everybody look what’s going down…” (For What It’s Worth, Lyrics; Buffalo Springfield) I feel it, the breaking down of the last stronghold. Writing is in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Harvest Haiku

Posted on June 7, 2004 by Susan

Broccoli is green with cabbage worms that mimic thin broccoli stems. Tomato hornworms laugh in immobility at gardeners shrieks. Continue reading →

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