Author Archives: Susan

WRITING: The Rounded Character

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Susan

Within a moment of breathing in the rare warm October day I want to roll naked in the leaves tricked into falling. Another part of me runs from lawn to tree to tree picking up the leaves and matching them … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in WRITING | 2 Comments

LITERATURE: Howl

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Susan

So to mark the 50th anniversary of the court ruling in finding social redeeming value against charges of obscenity on Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, I suggest we read it and make up our own individual minds:  Howl Thanks to if:book for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in LITERATURE | 1 Comment

REALITY?: Susan for President?

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Susan

Well maybe someday, but not yet. I can start small.  Driving up my hill this morning I noticed the usual proliferation of political signage that I am so staunchly against.  I started reading them.  Big difference this year: the office … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in REALITY | 4 Comments

REALITY?: Health Issues

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Susan

When I quit smoking I thought I’d have a lot more time and energy, since it wasn’t being spent on wrinkling. It’s going to be a day of odd thoughts I think.  Yep, odd thoughts and musings. Continue reading →

Posted in REALITY | Comments Off on REALITY?: Health Issues

WRITING: And writing again

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Susan

This post at Storytellers Unplugged has to be one of the best on the topic: The Importance of Revising–A Horror Story.  Read it all the way through because it holds some very important points and besides, it’s a humerous horror … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in LITERATURE | Comments Off on WRITING: And writing again

LITERATURE: The Sillier Side of Hypertext

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Susan

Random thoughts work like the chain of events, one linked to another, one recall sparking up the next, the Biblical begot. Hypertext leads to hyperlinkthinking. Reader interactive yes, but not the way a book reader might interact.  The scanner, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in LITERATURE | Comments Off on LITERATURE: The Sillier Side of Hypertext

REALITY?: Autumn

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Susan

Mornings dark and the room still grips the cold night that snuck in through the open window.  Kitchen lit in eerie fluorescence that slips into the shadow of the wholeness of the house.  Midday sun beams down in toothless smiles, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in REALITY | 2 Comments

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Things that made sense

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Susan

Steve Sailer calling Columbia’s Bollinger rude.  I would go further: he’s a pompous prick who believed that he and a hallful of college kids could do what he feels an inept government isn’t smart enough to do, that is make … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in CURRENT AFFAIRS | 1 Comment

REALITY?: What will mark this autumn?

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Susan

For me, peace.  A small bit of peace and the peaches.  Peaches in cereal and milk in a breakfast bowl.  A peach after lunch.  Peaches on ice cream and when there are still much too many, a kuchen, a cobbler, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in REALITY | 1 Comment

WRITING: Writers and their methods

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Susan

Last night I tried to clean out my Inbox and Sent Items since one was hovering around 750 and the other was in the 400s.  This doesn’t include the many folders I’ve made up for stuff I need to keep.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in WRITING | 2 Comments

REALITY?: Day 2

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Susan

Every year around this time (though it happens during other seasons as well) I get a headache and it usually takes me several days to remember that despite no other symptoms–runny eyes and nose and sneezing–it is some form of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in REALITY | Comments Off on REALITY?: Day 2

REALITY?: The Second Coming

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Susan

It must’ve been the chocolate cupcakes, or maybe the wine though I switched to wine coolers after the first glass. And I danced.  In a room where the walls doubled and glowed with the drums the guitars the strong female … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in REALITY | Comments Off on REALITY?: The Second Coming

REALITY?: Fiesta!

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Susan

Party tonight–niece Alycia’s 21st birthday and there’ll be dancin’, loud music–my brother-in-law’s band, which is good, three or four singers and John plays guitar, harmonica and sometimes a fiddle.  Not tonight though, not tonight.  Tonight’s for the young to get … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in REALITY | Comments Off on REALITY?: Fiesta!

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Personal Outsourcing has Come to CT!

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Susan

Just read earlier this week about personal outsourcing–having subcontractors do those jobs that are time-consuming yet not cost effective for you to do yourself–and how it may be the wave of the future, just as the blight of it has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in CURRENT AFFAIRS | Comments Off on CURRENT AFFAIRS: Personal Outsourcing has Come to CT!

REALITY?: Signs

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Susan

Summer winding down, picking out a half a dozen trees to paint with yellow, orange, red.  Dried vines still hold a few winter butternut squash, the leaves that hid the blossoms in a jungle long since gone.  You have to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in REALITY | 1 Comment