Author Archives: Susan

REALITY?: Update on Government Uselessness

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Susan

E-mailed my niece in Spain to have her let me know if the packages I sent out on December 11th did not make it because I couldn’t track it.  She already had them!  So that’s great service. However, a check … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Attitude

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Susan

Just an all-around tough day today.  Up to five band-aids so far, though only two are glass-cuts.  Two are cracked skin from the cold and glass-cleaning and one is a torn fingernail. Been trying to be upbeat about the end … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: McCarthy

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Susan

In encouraging Bud Parr of Chekhov’s Mistress in his reading of Cormac McCarthy, Mark Allen Cunningham left a link in the comments to this post.  It goes to his essay on The Art of Reading Cormac McCarthy which was published … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: How am I Doing?

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Susan

Aside from a hypertext project I haven’t been writing anything creative and aside from framing until Christmas, life sort of sucks right now.  Gotta get some New Year’s resolutions listed and then find someone to make them happen. (My usual … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Working Overtime

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Susan

This last week before Christmas, fortified with Sour Gummy Worms and a working stove, I put in long hours in the shop. Today, from 6:30 this morning until about a half hour ago, just before 10:00 p.m.  Tomorrow I have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Academic Politics

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Susan

Dan Green (The Reading Experience) has a further take on Jacob Russell’s "What Purpose do the Literary Periodicals Serve?" that pretty much says what we little guys have been thinking and grumbling about for a while. In "Becoming Respectable" Dan … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Art Imitates Life

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Susan

Watched the movie She’s Having a Baby on TV yesterday and this line stuck with me; spoken by the groom’s grandfather in response to his wife’s protest that her grandson is "too young" to get married: He’s not too young.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: The Decline of the U.S. Government

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Susan

So here’s why we need a complete overhaul of government–not just the people, not just the party, but a brand new direction because we’re headed to hell in a handbasket. Why’s the U.S. Postal Service going the way of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Deciding What’s Important

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Susan

Early, much too early thoughts wander into alien areas.  As centuries go by, the burden grows on each new generation to learn what has gone before.  The last one hundred years alone: World Wars, airplanes, cars, telephones and tv sets, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Sight by Sound

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Susan

Pre-dawn, too dark to see, but it is sleeting out I know.  Sounds of crumpling cellophane; the frozen rain hits sideways from the northwest–the bedroom wall.  Sanders going by, and so it’s slippery ice, freezing as it hits the road.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Dell Really Rocks–Especially Brad!

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Susan

Unreal.  In the technology field, no less.  To get the old fashioned service and caring on one of the newest inventions such as this DELL Laptop. Brad, a Dell rep for the Dell Online Community Outreach program wandered onto this … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Happiness is a Warm Stove

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Susan

(Side note:  Am I the only one who licks the positive battery tip before putting them in the camera?  Does anyone remember doing the same to flashbulbs way back when?)

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REALITY?: Unconscious Memory

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Susan

And so I cried when they gave Sofia one of the three gold $50k stars on the final episode of Kid Nation last night.  And I cried when all the parents came running over the hill towards their children.  And … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Dell Rocks

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Susan

Rather a nice surprise to see how Dell reps go above and beyond to keep customers happy.  Brad works at Dell and evidently wandered onto Spinning and left a comment after reading my posts on the replacement of the LCD … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: A Death in The Family – Philosophy

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Susan

The question of some form of soul or awareness beyond death always seems to come up when death happens.  And the answer is always the same, for no one knows it.  The handling of the process of reflection and wondering … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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