Where, how do you start? I hear Julie Andrews singing in my head… Start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start… But which beginning? Doesn’t a beginning imply that something, somewhere must have come to an end? And so what ended…
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Bombeckian Writing, and Authority
Some of the responses to yesterday’s blog took me by surprise. Startled me even. Who do I think I am to write about the Civil War? Which, just so you know, isn’t what the piece is about at all. Let me tell you, I’m an American. I was born and rai…
Read the rest of this entry »Guest Blog: Julie Peterson: Edwin’s Hat (revised from 2008)
Ah, Death Flesh stripped from bones Left bare to shine in the moonlight Knocking together like Mah jong tiles on the table, Old wise women Suck tea through their teeth And laugh at the sound. It’s a shame old men are the only ones Who wear fedoras an…
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Oh, Shut Up A friend of mine has often mused “Is writing about writing really writing, does it count?” I am in the unenviable position of writing about not writing. I’m sitting down today to think at the keyboard, which is where I…
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I went to The Porches last weekend, Hurricane Sandy weekend. Because that’s just who I am, ya know? I spent two weeks at The Porches in May of 2011. The day I left, two men were murdered, less than four miles from my home—on my street. One of them …
Read the rest of this entry »Cycles, TV, and The Doctor
It seems like lifetimes have gone by since I last posted. Lifetimes. Sometimes there are lifetimes in single days. There have been lots of single days like that in the last couple of months. I’ve gotten no writing done. But the fact is, I think about…
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