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About Wordamour. . . Check Out My Books. Newer posts →. December 31, 2012 · 5:43 am. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt:. 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,700. Views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 5 years to get that many views. Click here to see the complete report. December 9, 2012 · 1:48 am. Adding 23,000 words to my novel,. What ...
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Sans le Nom: The Word of the Day
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Saturday, December 14, 2013. The Word of the Day. Today is my birthday. I turn 46 officially at 11:04 pm, which is uncharacteristic because that's way past my bedtime. Last year I made a Facebook goof and threw a lavish party. This year I'm spending a little less. My present to myself is this. A chance to sit down in a cafe on President Clinton Avenue and write for myself. I'll say, "Mom, I think I was born on a full stomach.". And I'll cry a little bit as she tells me she loves me and hangs up the phone.
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Sans le Nom: Beautiful Dragons
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014. The perception of what is small is the secret of clear. Sightedness; the guarding of what is soft and tender is the secret. Of strength. - Lao Tzu. When I was very young, my mom read to me every night, and when I started first grade, she taught me to read. In essence, she gave me the gifts of life and literacy, yet while I have certainly enjoyed the former to its fullest (thanks, Mom! I'm a little slow sometimes. And Hansel and Gretel were arrested for burglary and capital mur...
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Sans le Nom: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Dead in D.C. It's a little-known fact (or maybe a well-known one) that a lot of people die on the toilet. Elvis Presley being, possibly, one of the most famous examples. I know this because I am a dry cleaner's daughter and was intrigued by an article in the New Yorker. At any rate, I went to Washington, D.C. for a conference on Tuesday. What could it be? Yeah, flights cancelled. And then I sat back on the cool marble floor (the hotel is next door to the White House, what do y...
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Sans le Nom: Lessons I Learned from Family and Friends #1: The Wedding Cake
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Lessons I Learned from Family and Friends #1: The Wedding Cake. Of course, that was the whole point of the exercise: be uncomfortable until you find a place of comfort with the group you will spend this time with, recognize each as a person and not as somehow a representative of a color or a belief or a generation or a place. So my friend told me a story. But then she had to transport the finished cake back to the un-airconditioned farmhouse over several miles of dirt road. So from...
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Sans le Nom: August 2012
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Going out of Business. F-Bomb Alert: My mom should not read this post (she will anyway). My teaching career is officially, finally, and irrevocably over. After 19 years in the biz, I've had enough. A few months ago, a friend of mine said, "You know, there are problems at every job; I just need a different set of problems." And I guess I kind of took her statement into my own heart. I didn't actually sign up for a teaching career. Like most things in my life, it fell into my...
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Two Hundred Twenty-One | John Swinburn
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I am sure of nothing, not even myself. Not Asking Much →. August 9, 2015. I wonder whether I could assemble a group in Hot Springs Village people who enjoy spicy food to regularly venture out to restaurants to explore spicy stuff and/or gather at individuals’ homes to make and eat spicy dishes? The answer, of course, is yes. Whether I will make it happen remains to be seen. Tell someone else about this:. Love not what you are but what you may become." Miguel de Cervantes. Not Asking Much →. Email check f...
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Rethinking Creative Writing | Wordamour
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About Wordamour. . . Check Out My Books. 8220;Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and altogether important book” Erika Dreifus, author of. Contributing Editor to The Writer magazine (erikadreifus.com). 8220;Brave, serious, passionate, entertaining. . .” Dr. Steve May, Head of Department, Creative Writing, Bath Spa Univeristy and author of. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Abigail, She Wrote.
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Not Asking Much | John Swinburn
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I am sure of nothing, not even myself. Two Hundred Twenty-Two →. August 9, 2015. How can such a modest obligation become oppressive? I consider everything I’ve written to be fodder for spurring more writing. Every story, every rumination, every incomplete vignette is fuel. Though I don’t require much of myself, the little I do require is enough. For now. Tell someone else about this:. Love not what you are but what you may become." Miguel de Cervantes. View all posts by John Swinburn →. August 26, 2016.
