So my quandary about what to write first has been solved: childhood won out over Maine. It was an easy place to slip back to, and I got a few memory jogs from some old neighbors, which helped, too, even if a lot of times I decided to go with fiction instead of the truth. [...]
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You know you haven’t blogged in awhile when you can’t even remember how to log in. I’m writing this in word, hoping to figure things out later when my eyes aren’t bleary from the road. Just back from our summer vacation in Maine. Some good camping and only one long rain storm that left my [...] I went to see The Rock Bottom Remainders this week, figuring that my standing as a writing geek would be revoked unless I saw these people play live. The band of writing luminaries started jamming together in 1992 and for me the draw was — no, not Stephen King, who wasn’t on this tour — [...] “Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.” I’ve been thinking about letters, based on a recent discussion about Jane Austen’s letters, some of which are now on display at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. (A number of them are [...] Look at the following words: Caustic, mullion, duffer, magistrate, minions, populace, portcullis, abhorrence, vizards, corselet, casquet, flagon, halberds, thumbscrew, phosphorescence, imminent, podgy, capricious, audacious, debonair, avidity, antimacassar. Now guess which book I plucked these from? (I’d turn this into a trivia game, but I don’t have the readership for a trivia game yet so you’ll find [...] A while back when I was trying to learn how to play the guitar, I wasn’t putting in enough writing time. Every free minute I had, I was strumming my too-good-for-me Gibson, trying to learn something simple, like Mr. Tambourine Man (well, it was simple the way I played it; it reminded my friends of [...] |
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