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Month: November 2008

Posted on November 28, 2008

Creative Writing Three-Day Intensive Workshops

If you’re a wordsmith looking for a brief, fun and intensive workshop, you might be interested in one of the three-day classes that fellow writer Brad Zellar and I are launching in January. These new workshops, each of which focuses on a different subject, are ideal for writers with significant life experience – fifty and … Continue reading Creative Writing Three-Day Intensive Workshops

Posted on November 23, 2008

Another tiny story of immigration

This is not a photo of my grandmother McGhee, obviously, but it IS a photo of her dog Jody butting heads with me, and I loved Jody, and so did my grandmother, so there you have it. I would write this one down in the words of my grandmother McGhee as exactly as I can … Continue reading Another tiny story of immigration

Posted on November 16, 2008

A Boy Jumps Overboard

Here is a tiny story of American immigration, set down here exactly (or as close to exact as I can get it while going against my own nature and resisting completely the instinctive urge to embellish and embroider it, re-tell it in my own way – as told to me in my childhood by my … Continue reading A Boy Jumps Overboard

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a collection of beautiful words.....

Alison McGhee

Political Vibes

Objects of my Affections

Objects, Memory and Meaning

Embodying Democracy

interrobangs

Words by Winter

If it can't be said in a hundred words, then it can't be said in a thousand.

Sew Mariefleur

sewing a handmade wardrobe

Words for the Year

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. -jack gilbert

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The Good Things Black People Do, Give and Receive All Over The World

O at the Edges

Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.

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The Best of It

Thoughts on the world around me

unbolt me

the literary asylum

Musings of a mad woman

Bipolar is my superpower