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And now I’m back.

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August 19, 2011

After a couple of months of being out of the circuit, I have returned to blogging. Not that it was by choice.  Between the Willamette Writers Conference (I was on the committee, which apparently meant that I give up my life for a few weeks…or months…and arranged events so that others could have a...
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Reading The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker and suddenly I adore poetry.

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June 8, 2011
Reading The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker and suddenly I adore poetry.

It’s for a book club. The Radicals book club, I believe it’s called. I don’t know why it’s called that, except to possibly distinguish it from the other non-Radicals book club that the friend who invited me to join also has. (Wow. Was something dangling in that sentence or is it just me? OK....
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If you’re writing, you have to stick with it.

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May 28, 2011

No taking breaks, no feeling good about what you’ve accomplished. Not even a little mini-break holiday to have a forbidden Frappucino drink in the back yard to watch the dog herd the chickens. Because when you come back to it, it sucks! I have no idea what I was doing. All those notations I...
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Literary Arts steps it up–drinking and Delve!

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May 27, 2011
Literary Arts steps it up–drinking and Delve!

Once again, Literary Arts has impressed me by improving one of my favorite programs that they offer. If you haven’t tried Delve, you really should. I’ve only done one of the seminars (Virginia Woolf’s The Waves a few years ago), but it was amazing and I really need to do another. It made me...
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Yet another quick, dirty and depressing book about science.

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May 12, 2011
Yet another quick, dirty and depressing book about science.

I can’t get enough of them, it seems. The Humans Who Went Extinct is all about how Homo sapiens weren’t really super-smart, badass warriors who simply emerged from Africa one day and took Europe by storm, wiping out all the Neanderthals with a casual sort of indifference and establishing themselves as highest on the...
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