February 2010

MidLifeBloggers Jingle Dangle Earring Sweepstakes

Do you like pretty things?  Do you like pretty, sparkly things?  Do you like pretty, sparkly things  that dangle gracefully from your earlobes?  Do you like these? Would you like to see them dangling gracefully from your earlobes?

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Wednesday Writers Workshop: Description, or Do You See What I See

That is the purpose of description, you know, to suck your reader into your mind’s eye, and spew out for their benefit exactly what you’re seeing. Some people are really good at it.   And some people, well, they merely suck. Which are you? Me? I fall somewhere in the middle, somewhere between not bad […]

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Use it or lose it: your brain, that is

Really, I was afraid of making the wrong decision. At the age of 43, I didn’t want to start down a road, using up precious time and money, and then realizing it was a road I didn’t want to be on after all.

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Buying A Bathing Suit

I just ordered a bathing suit.  It’s still February and I’m looking at swimwear.  I do this every year.  And every year, I pass on the opportunity to clothe my body for a season of swimming.  Thus, every year I do not swim. I do not swim for a variety of reasons–well, at least two. […]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Should writing be such hard work?

Wallace Stegner–remember him? He of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose? Known as the Dean of Western Writers and founder of the creative writing program at Stanford University? I have a slim volume of his entitled On The Teaching of Creative Writing, and from time to time I dip into it […]

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