I have nothing interesting to say. Sorry! Just checking in to let you know I’m still out here. When I took a first aid class once, they said you should ask three questions about a person in distress: Is she breathing? Is she bleeding? Is she comfy? Well, I’m okay on the first two…. Not [...]
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Praying to Darwin tagged me (well, anyone who was reading her, actually!) and I promised a response. Here goes:
What I Was Doing 10 Years Ago
June 1998: Living in Palouse, WA, a town of 1,000 people located about 17 miles from Pullman, WA, a city of 35,000 and the metropolis of the region. I was on [...]
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Almost immediately upon publishing my last post, I felt the unfairness of leaving it there without a follow up on a more positive note. Here is my coda, written tonight after an afternoon spent reading in my hotel room here in Casma. When I am sick, I like to read. So it was VERY helpful [...]
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This semester I’ve been working with a student who is going on our service-learning trip to Peru in January. She needed an additional General Education class in liberal arts to graduate in the spring, so I agreed to do an Introduction to Gender Studies directed study with her on women in Peru (spread out over [...]
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My husband and I just started reading The Hobbit to our ten-year old son. We’d been thinking of doing this for a while, and the timing was finally right. I was very surprised to discover how much the first chapter spoke to my current situation so pointedly. In other words, I felt as [...]
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“It’s a terrifying tale,” I let slip as I watched the five boys scoot closer to the edge of a boulder which they had ascended, pinecones and leaves flying at each other on the way up. “I don’t know if you boys can handle it.”
They rose to the bait easily with shouts of bravery. [...]
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Thanks for the encouragement to give National Novel Writing Month a go, guys! I appreciate the vote of confidence. Having thought about it a lot, I’ve decided on a modified plan for participation. Here’s what I mean…
Today’s NaNo pep talk from Tom Robbins says: “You need not have your ending in mind [...]
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IS it cheating to participate in National Novel Writing Month but not write fiction?
Ok, so I know I said that I was not going to do NaNo … but they signed me up and now they are counting on me! Here’s what happened (for those who missed my earlier reference): I went to the [...]
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Okay, so I went to the National Novel Writing Month website and decided to check it out after being encouraged to do NaNo myself … even though I am not writing fiction…. Thanks for the suggestion, struggling writer and sheshewriter.
Here’s a quote from the NaNo site that epitomizes why I want to participate [...]
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Lately I’ve come across a lot of bloggers who are preparing to write the Great American Novel in the month of November. Lord love em. Good luck to y’all.
I’m not going to be writing the Great American Novel next month. In fact, I do not write fiction. I’m strictly a “creative [...]
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