Author Archives: Susan

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Rights and Common Sense

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Susan

Locally, a Seymour, CT woman is attempting to ban peanut butter from the school where her six year-old son is a student.  Nothing frivolous here–the boy is dangerously allergic to peanuts and can easily go into anaphalactic shock, risking almost … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Story

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Susan

What is more dramatic, more vital and more relative to story than the ongoing process of life and death? The other day I watched a turkey vulture in our backyard dine on squirrel. Life is continuous, one generation, one species … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Reading Like a Writer – Telling can be okay

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Susan

I’m not sure what kind of reviews this book got, but for me, Francine Prose has some damn good ideas. In explicating a passage from Alice Munro’s Dulse, she notes that Munro’s clean and simple style still allows for movement … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Deadline Time Again

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Susan

For many of the literary journals, March 31st marks the deadline for reading until September.  The pressure’s on. So scattered though in thought that all the stories screaming out for editing are heard as one loud siren wailing in my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: A Kiss in Space

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Susan

A few of my framing customers have upon occasion given me gifts of appreciation and Saturday, one gave me this book of the poems of Mary Jo Salter.  This 1999 collection is an exceptional one that encompasses so many moods … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: And Dreams

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Susan

The Dream:  I wake to Jim coughing hard, slip out of bed and squeeze from a tube several translucent strips of medicine.   They are the diameter of toothpaste, violet blue with glitter suspended within.  I bring them back into the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Feed Fix

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Susan

Yay!  I fixed it!  All on my own, thank you very much.  No offers of help poured in–not even a drizzle so either we have a case here of that "distancing" that I was alluding to as far as feeds … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING & REALITY?: Testing

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Susan

I suppose it was that post knocking the concept of feeds, and the wrong people read it.  I’m still stuck in 2004.  This post is just a test to see if the new modules I put into the templates for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: YEEE-HAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Susan

So my life is crumbling about me; maybe you’ll never see this post because feedburner won’t update…who the f— cares! WILLIE’S in town come June, and I’ve got a great seat! Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: MORE yet even on the damn feed.

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Susan

Help! You wouldn’t believe what I’ve been through to correct the feed here.  I’ve risked all I’ve written in over three years, some 3600+ entries, disconnected, deleted, republished, reconnected, and still, on the IE toolbar feed brings me to up-to-date … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: More on Feeds…

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Susan

I was alerted to the fact that a feed was not updating, the latest entry shown being one dated March 24, 2004.  In checking out the problem, I realized that when I added Hypercompendia on feedburner, another account was issued … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Feeds

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Susan

Even as the subject of feeds explodes into a massive question of change, I just noticed that a feed other than Bloglines hasn’t updated itself since Sunday, the 11th–while on Bloglines I’ve noticed daily posts since.  How trusting have we … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: And The Internet

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Susan

I’m seeing more and more hits from Turn It In lately in the stats.  Checking the stats occasionally is a fascinating experience; I love seeing what’s been Googled to lead the Googlers here.  It’s amazing.  It’s also made me more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Sorting It All Out

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Susan

I’ve done this before, opened new weblogs when it seemed that my obsession with something overtook the weblog and sent it in another direction.  Then when I finally decide to separate the topic out into a new blog, I end … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Golden Opportunity

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Susan

I’ve posted on this before, but this is exciting: MIT to offer its courses free online. No degree or credits, but I have little doubt that this will indeed stand for something (as all credentials do) in the near future.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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