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So here is how my workday began: Walking up the concrete steps to the front door, wondering if I looked totally lame in this outfit that I never wear, I lifted my arm to wave back at the intimidatingly pretty, very nice woman who had waved and smiled at me ( Read more... )

tara_incognito asked tonight about whether the people on her friends list believe in ghosts, and that combined with having talked about that house my mom finally moved out of along with the diet drinks made me think of this ( Read more... )

Printing up my entries seems to be working great! It's fun to go through those old entries. It reminds me about things I'd forgotten completely. Ahhh ... it's good to be writing ( Read more... )

Mattie got as a gift a subscription to this remarkable magazine, Poets & Writers. I'm not one for how-to-write magazines--they seem to spend an inordinate amount of time telling you you don't know what you're doing--but there are some remarkable articles in this one ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here right now trying to record the train for my CD. God, how I do love that sound. There are mourning doves here, too; that sound always comforts me, ever since we found that remarkable oasis of a TraveLodge in Tucson, burgeoning with magenta flowers, and always, always the mourning doves into the blazing stillness ( Read more... )

WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL responses to my "make up a story about me" post!!!!

Thank you!!! Inventive indeed, and wonderfully written.

This one is just too good to pass up. C'mon, let me know you're all as inventive as I think you are ....

Invent a memory of me and post it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it's something that's never happened. Then post this in your journal so that people can invent memories for you.

This presentation we have to do for sign class is a fairy tale in under five minutes. If there's a sign we don't know, or in general if it would make for a better story, we are encouraged to use gestures rather than specific signs to get our meaning across ( Read more... )