November 2009

Of Marriage, Life, Art and Loss

11.29.2009

Regardless of the causes, I am dealing with an enormous loss, and the agony of watching him erase himself. It is the antithesis of creating. It is chaos as well as inertia.

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: The Process of Writing

11.24.2009

There’s a signal  way in which the concept of writing as process is crucial to our success as writers.  Our writing process is how we actually do the thing.  What are our habits, our quirks, our must haves and our cannot do’s that are a part of our productivity as writers?    Interviews with successful writers [...]

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Remembering The Kennedy’s

11.23.2009

It has never been more critical for our country to regain its courage, its self-respect, and its desire to never lose heart. Life is long and we ain’t dead yet, right?

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Jane’s World-Famous Award-winning Best-Ever Pecan Pie

11.20.2009

Okay, gather ’round while I give you The Secret…

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Purpose, or Why Do You Write?

11.18.2009

Writing isn’t some mysterious phenomenon that happens when the good fairy graces you with her presence.  It isn’t some arcane procedure that only dead white males (and a few chosen, but robust females) are truly capable of.  Writing is just another form of communication, plain and simple, a way of getting across meaning using words [...]

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Dialectic: Poetry, Philosophy, Collage

11.16.2009

The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something…safe from challenge and on-going discovery of the truth of inherent polarity.

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop

11.11.2009

I got the idea for starting a Writers Workshop on MidLifeBloggers when a friend, Merlot Mom, wrote on her blog about finding her own way to write rather than bowing to conventional wisdom of how it must be done.  I jumped in with both feet to the conversation, and afterwards I thought—whoa! You certainly have [...]

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Breast Cancer Bonanza: Stop the Greed

11.09.2009

Stop the greed. Please take a minute to tell Eli Lilly to “stop milking cancer” .

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