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Jungle Red Writers – Why didn’t I know about this before?

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January 18, 2012
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How fun this this? Some of my favorite authors (especially Hallie Ephron, who teaches and speaks at the Willamette Writers Conference) who get together and blog about books and Downton Abbey and food (lobster bisque recipe, anyone?) It’s super entertaining. They took their name from the nail polish in the play The Women by Clare Boothe Luce....
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My new favorite artist – Scott FitzGerald

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January 2, 2012
Afternoon Light

So not really a new favorite artist. I’ve owned a couple of his pieces for over a year now. Well. Not really a couple of pieces. One. One piece. But I have my eye on another…  Afternoon Light is closest to the one I own. The colors are more muted in this one. Maybe...
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Tillie Olsen…You would think with my Reed education…

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September 1, 2011
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  …I would have heard of this woman. Yet I never have. A friend (after reading one of my previous posts about writing and of course not commenting on the blog so that it looks good and gives me a higher count on my statistics…not that I’m bitter…) recommended this book to me. It...
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Website hosting issues and WordPress media uploads all fixed.

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August 31, 2011

And with a little homage to Amy Winehouse… My tears have dried. I didn’t really cry, but I thought I might if I didn’t get the site fixed today. I set aside my morning to work on it. Went through all the problems again and got the exact same error message about the parent...
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I really have got to stop reading these end of the world books.

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August 31, 2011
Life and death

Another one from Ward and Brownlee. A “sequel”, they call it, to Rare Earth. I’m going to have to make these extinction books their own category. “How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Day” should be its name. Earth is a middle-aged woman, run ragged by her hundreds of children, asshole of a husband, and...
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