Writing
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What? Pop culture on the House?
I don’t recall when the last time I watched the Oscars ceremony. I suspect it may have been before I went to University (and no, Casablanca did not win best picture that year, Rocky did). They (the Oscar’s) have just never seemed that interesting to me. I watched this year. Why the change? I suspect,
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Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening
I don’t know. I read something like this and I’m not sure whether to scream in anger or in loss. I’m trying to think of what would be an appropriate sentence for the vandals (seems like too kind of a word) involved. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are, I think
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Reading outloud
I know I’ve been bad… The My mum in Australia wants to talk to you series was left in a lurch some time ago. I’ve been working on the screenplay is all, and being kept up late by my darling daughter so I’m going back to bed during my writing time. But on Sunday I
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Screenplay
Part of my writing energy these days has been going into a screenplay that I’ve been writing. I’ve now finished my first draft, I’ve sent it off to a few people to read over and critique it for me, mostly family (although some of the family actually has credentials, I’ve a second cousin who is
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A poem and two thoughts for the day
If You KnewEllen Bass What if you knew you’d be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm, brush your fingertips along the life line’s crease. When a man pulls his wheeled suitcase
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Baking up a storm
I know. I know. Its been a long time between posts. I’ve been trying to get through the latest installment of "The Great Northland’s Fire Extinguisher Incident" and it’s been a struggle. The words just don’t seem to be flowing. I think partly because I think some people may misinterpret the violence on our part.
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First Friday – January
Well here is my First Friday for January. It may be my last one for awhile as there is some other writing I’d like to do, and I started another project trying to compile information on the men from my home town killed in the Great War. I’d like to eventually expand it into some
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December’s First Friday
Here is my entry for this month’s First Friday, over at Wild Bird On the Fly. First Friday is a fiction writing contest. You should consider a submission, the rules are pretty simple. Simply write a short piece of fiction 500 words or less with a birding theme. The birds can not be anthropomorphized. THE
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First Friday – November’s Entry
Well, for what it is worth, here is my First Friday entry for this month. I struggled with it this time as I had wanted to write something less dark than the other two entries. I also wrote way more than 500 words and had a heck of a time paring it down. So…. Damn
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Dylan Thomas
It is Dylan Thomas’ birthday today. So I offer you these… Arguably his most famous poem DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end