Author Archives: Susan

REALITY?: Enough already…

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Susan

…of the Mother Nature glow of pleasure and satisfaction with all that grows from this good earth and walks upon it.  I’m an honest person and I’m sick to death of b.s. that tries to make us smile our way … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Movin’ with Basil Thyme Time

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Susan

Maybe it’s over, maybe the rest grow slow enough to look forward to, welcome, appreciate and enjoy. The big bold sandwich-size tomato you check every morning and just before dark, deciding on one more day on the vine. The peaches … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Sharing

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Susan

Even as many new writers still present their manuscripts with a circle-c (copyright), the world is changing around us all.  At if:book, there is a post on discontent–the idea that the write, create, share, principle is the way of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Some Wisdom

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Susan

Just a couple of links to what I thought were more than the usual pat answers to the how-to on writing: At The Writers’ Group, Amy answers the "who do you write for?" question very well, giving an example as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Well, not really…

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Susan

…but I’m still not done with the peaches and just feel so guilty because I haven’t been reading more than a page at a time in between. Since as a woman born of earth and raised a Catholic besides, I … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Happiness is…

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Susan

…creation… I don’t know why, but this makes me happy.  Sitting in the next room I hear the blipping of the air locks, like the ticking of a clock.  There is such pleasure in the undertaking of a process and … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Driven

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Susan

In answer to the question "Will I really burn in Hell forever if I don’t pick the peaches?" Lisa of Eudaemonia, noticing that I’m still alive and well, comments: "Oh thank God you didn’t burn in hell!!! I’m guessing you’re … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION & LITERATURE: Googling for Grades

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Susan

Just too funny:  A Google search for "Canary Row". Wait’ll they hand in their paper with the character inclusion of Aristotle. Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Stages 2 and 3

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Susan

Can’t help  it, this is the absolute best year we’ve ever had in all the fruit so I have to share the joy (harumph. I just mistyped that as “share the job” and boyohboy I sure wish it were the … Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Old Beliefs Die Hard

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Susan

A moral dilemma, a question of misguided prayer.  Will I really burn in Hell forever if I leave the peaches on the tree to possibly be killed by frost tonight?  Can I suffer some children somewhere to come and pick … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: We Have a Winner!

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Susan

So very proud of friend and teacher Steve Ersinghaus for achieving the Reading Room Prize at Hypertext ’07 in Manchester, England for his novel The Life of Geronimo Sandoval.  Thanks to Mark Bernstein for the heads up and for his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Recycling Sensuality

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Susan

Who else but I might have unopened packages of nylon stockings–not pantyhose–saved for decades just for this day to serve as straining bags to hold the pulp away from juices that become peach wine?  Even as the bubbling peach transforms … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Interactive Non-Fiction

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Susan

Tough day. Good things bad things don’t-know-what-to-do things. Learning more and more about people about me about the interactive world of reality that lays down choices and somehow just like in an alien Photopia and left-right-up-down-try-fly-cry I just don’t know … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Knee-deep in Peaches

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Susan

For once, after seventeen years, the peaches weren’t hampered by late frost, drought, birds, lack of bees, gummiosis, worms, squirrels, or any other malady that occurs where you don’t get the harvest you need to perform the miracle of turning … Continue reading →

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REALITY: 9/11/01

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Susan

He laughs and runs just like the other boys even though he doesn’t have a father just his mom. Wild-eyed big-grinned wild-legged games of tag with hands held open at the ready. On a schoolyard in Missouri grassy brown and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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