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Sunday Brunch: Heroes, Villains, and Loss – Excerpt
Reflection Through a Bugle by Mark Coffee via iStockPhoto.com – Click to embiggen Tomorrow is Memorial Day. Earlier this week, I found out that a good writing buddy lost his battle to cancer a few...
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Sunday Brunch: Cello Hands
My latest Sunday Brunch piece, “Cello Hands” is up at All Things Girl. An excerpt is below, but you can read the whole thing here: Sunday Brunch: Cello Hands. I knew what a cello was, of course,...
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Dog Days of Podcasting: Sunday Brunch – Isn’t It Pretty?
Every other Sunday, I write a column called “Sunday Brunch” for the ezine All Things Girl. Regular readers of this site have seen me link to it before. Today, for my DDoP entry, I picked the Sunday...
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Dog Days of Podcasting: Medium Monday – In the Starbucks Doorway
Happy Monday. Today’s entry for DDoP is a reading of my first piece from Medium, “In The Starbucks Doorway”, which I originally posted there back in May. You can listen to it at SoundCloud, or play it...
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Dog Days of Podcasting: Taps and The Trumpet of the Swan
I hate “Taps.” I hate the way the song makes me feel, and I hate that this lovely piece of music is forever linked with death. I even wrote a Sunday Brunch piece about it, as part of a tribute to a...
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DDoP: Listening to the Hombre Jesus Woman
Today’s entry in the Dog Days of Podcasting is one of the pieces I posted on Medium.com: Little Miracles: Listening to the Hombre Jesus Woman. You can listen to it at the SoundCloud website, or play...
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Dog Days of Podcasting: Sunday Brunch – Mail Call
Is it technically Sunday Brunch if I record it at 6:30 PM? Do I really care? The answer to both questions is NO! The piece itself is the Sunday Brunch piece from 26 August 2012. You can read it,...
View ArticleDDoP – Cedar Boxes
So, I’ve moved my podcasting to a new domain: Bathtub Mermaid. Today’s Dog Days of Podcasting entry is there. Click for direct link: DDoP #15 – Cedar Boxes.
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Fall in Love
An excerpt from a letter to a friend’s daughter: Fourth, fall in love. Fall in love hard. And often. Enjoy it, because love – real love – is messy and exciting and kinda scary. But don’t get married....
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Sunday Salon: Henna and Holmes
I haven’t done a Sunday Salon post in the better part of a year, and when I have done them in the past, I’ve always hosted them over at my book blog, Bibliotica, but I felt like talking about what...
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Starlight and Whalesong
Last Saturday, I went to see the grey whales, and got to pet one. This morning, I wrote about it at All Things Girl. Most of us think of humpback whales when we think of whale watching, but – at least...
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Sunday Brunch: That 70′s Summer
My latest Sunday Brunch piece is up at All Things Girl. We’re filling the blog, while we continue to rebuild the rest of our site since it was hacked – badly – in June. Here’s an excerpt from the...
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Her Name is Jane
The Dog Days of Podcasting challenge began on Thursday. This is the text of my first episode, which you can hear at The BathtubMermaid Her Name is Jane We took her home on Tuesday evening, after a...
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The Truth About Sharks
The Dog Days of Podcasting challenge began on Thursday. This is the text of my second episode, which you can hear at The BathtubMermaid “Shark week starts on Sunday,” I told my partner as we lounged...
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DDoP: Polyurethane
Transcript of yesterday’s entry for The Dog Days of Podcasting. Transcript may not match final recording. Listen to the episode at The Bathtub Mermaid. The first time I heard the word “polyurethane” I...
View ArticleDDoP: This Isn’t Treasure Island
Tonight’s Dog Days of Podcasting post is a 100-word distilled moment written in August, 2009: Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems were constant friends in childhood, poems my grandmother and I would...
View ArticleDDoP: Pictophone
Originally written: June, 2008 Inspiration word: Pictophone Inspired by: Clay Robeson Random sentences inspiring even more random drawings, which lead to other sentences, or just the connection between...
View ArticleDDoP: Fairy Dust
Originally Written: June, 2008 Inspiration Word: fairy dust (I think) Inspired By: Becca Rowan She stopped in the village square, intrigued by the array of market stalls, all offering things never seen...
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Welcome Autumn
Autumn has always been my favorite season, and even though it doesn’t technically begin until tomorrow night, I wrote about it for Sunday Brunch over at All Things Girl this week. You can read it...
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Sunday Brunch: The Art of Procrastination
My Sunday Brunch post is up at All Things Girl. Here’s an excerpt: Here is an example of how not-writing works in my brain: ‘I should be working on Sunday Brunch. But I don’t know what to write about....
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