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Ruth & Lucille: March 2011
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Monday, 14 March 2011. Give Ridiculous Some Light. Last Thursday, I stepped out my apartment door and looked up to see my gentleman neighbor also stepping out of his. His face spoke all kinds of shock. On this mid-March, rainy afternoon, I was wearing nude panty hose, a ruffly black skirt (with unseen gingham bloomers underneath), white leather Mary-Jane tap shoes, and a bright yellow rain coat. He'd caught me on my way to clog. Love and little jig,. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Ruth & Lucille: October 2011
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Thursday, 20 October 2011. Becoming Mrs. American Pie. My August ended with quite a production. I have a tendency to dabble and feel that my difficulty with completion is one of my most frustrating flaws. This summer, however, I did complete something and the question is now – what next? 1 A tearful conversation with my dear sister about fears of not living up to my full potential. 2. An issue of Our State magazine (our state being North Carolina) with a feature on food in every county. 3....As the da...
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Ruth & Lucille: May 2012
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Thursday, 31 May 2012. The whole hill ahead. On a recent bike ride in. I was in the lowest gear pedaling up a slow sloping hill. I could see the whole thing ahead and my thighs weren’t happy. But I kept breathing and staring long at ferns in their natural habitat, glad to be surrounded by depth and quiet. But, why (pray tell) did my lungs hold tight to stale air when I saw the hill I had to climb? Why did I want to get off the bike and sit on a patch of moss? This moment made me remember the wornout adag...
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Ruth & Lucille: April 2012
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Monday, 30 April 2012. The Spring and I. And the more different colours and kind of plants with their varying arrangement you can enjoy, the happier you will be in pushing out your frontiers of experience. Never stay still or you'll slip backwards. Never stop experimenting. It is important not to accept received ideas automatically.". Christopher Lloyd in "Proud to Be Vulgar". Notes from the Garden. The beginning of a rock garden, saxifrage in competition. I reckon I am a sort of vampire, because I feed ...
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Ruth & Lucille: Days like Yesterday
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Friday, 29 June 2012. This morning everyone at work was talking about how they got home last night. Each person had a story. A storm came through. Newcastle yesterday afternoon, prompting a change to the normal day’s routine. Streets. Were cut off,. Houses and roads were. Flooded and the amount of water that fell in that short space of time made us all stop and look. It was a different kind of storm for this place. Days like yesterday remind me of working as a waitress in. For a long time I’ve had. I put...
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The Literary Assassin: fun with racial slurs
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Sunday, January 25, 2015. Fun with racial slurs. At my last writer's meeting somebody questioned my use of the racial slur "cracker," so I got curious and did some new digging; new resources crop up all the time. I knew 'cracker' was pre-Civil War but didn't know it was pre-Revolution. A/k/a the most wonderful writer's resource ever:. Southern U.S. derogatory term for "poor, white trash" (1766), probably an agent noun from crack. Also, the less well-known and southern-specific "buckra". Once again, I'm s...
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The Literary Assassin: 05/01/2014 - 06/01/2014
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Thursday, May 29, 2014. ConQuest, Stalkers, and #YesAllWomen. I was probably going to write this anyway, but all this #YesAllWomen kerfuffle has made it particularly relevant. I hadn't thought too much about what he would do if he DID show up to my reading; I figured if the room was full I'd just ignore him. But when he walked in, in the middle of my second paragraph, there were only two people in the room, and the Tao decreed I was not going to put up with him, sitting in there and sucking off my qi.
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The Literary Assassin: 07/01/2014 - 08/01/2014
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Monday, July 07, 2014. A scream in the night. I woke up last night around 3 am and had to pee. This is a fairly common occurrence, and I took care of it without difficulty. I should mention: we live in a 100-year-old house in which the bathroom is a tiny closet off the kitchen; its door faces the exterior back door, and is next to the bedroom. As I came out of the bathroom, in the pitch dark, I heard a sound that literally. Did I go for a weapon? I couldn't answer any of those questions until I knew what...
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Food History Network
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Thursday, September 30, 2010. FOOD NEWS AND REVIEWS. Food for Peace: From Eisenhower to Obama. Michael Pollan: A History of Food Policy. Inaugural Meals and the National Mood. Child Nutrition Bill Stalls in Congress. BEST OF THE BLOGS. Just Exactly What is Worthwhile about Food History. Air Force One Tuna Melt on Croissant. In Praise of Baked Beans. George Washington Garlic Mashed Potatoes. Starving for Art: The Hunger of Vincent Van Gogh. The Cambridge World History of Food. Pie: A Global History.
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