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  • Identity,  Snapshots,  Writing

    Another summer winding down

    / September 3, 2021

    Let's call this end-of-summer-depressed writer. I have the accoutrements... Short story collection. Moody music. Notebook and writing implement. Old baggy t-shirt and comfy sweats. But let me share some encouragement, too, while I…

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  • Or was the point always to continue without a sign? - Louise Gluck
    Blog,  What I'm Reading

    The poetry of new friends and not knowing

    / October 19, 2020

    "Or was the point always to continue without a sign?" Sometimes other's words resonate. A line from 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Louise Glück.

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  • Blog,  Identity,  What I'm Reading

    Eating my way to my best self… No, wait…

    / July 4, 2020

    On the other side of the world or our own backyards, where can we find what we're missing? I'm reading Eat Pray Love.

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  • Blog,  Identity,  What I'm Reading

    Entering Others’ Stories: A Spoiler-Free Recommendation of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen

    / June 10, 2020

    I've always loved books that let me enter into someone else's experience. No one fits neatly in a box. Check out my mostly spoiler-free recommendation of Chaim Potok's classic and timely The Chosen.

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  • Snapshots

    Anyway…

    / April 19, 2020

    That’s a phrase I use a lot... A transition. Or braking to shift gears, or make a turn...

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  • Snapshots

    Sunlight

    / April 7, 2020

    The sunlight dazzles my eyes so they ache deciphering black words on a white page. Like other things we love, it can hurt.

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  • Poetry,  Snapshots

    Seasons in 17 Syllables: Winter to Spring

    / April 3, 2020

           

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  • Melinda almost forty years ago
    Identity,  Memoir,  Snapshots

    Fifty Years in the Future Forty Years Ago

    / April 1, 2020

    The future was bright and my possibilities endless. Yes, the world looked different when I was nine, but I was figuring things out.

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  • Blog,  Identity,  Writing

    I was an awkward kid… #amwriting

    / November 2, 2019

    So, I’ve decided to take part in NaNoWriMo, super informally. One of those people who don’t even intend to write a novel, but want to be motivated to write every day. I see…

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  • Blog,  Identity

    And I Know I’m at Least a Little Awesome…

    / October 4, 2019

    The questions caught me off-guard. Got me thinking about what I meant when I said I was whole...

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