Tag: writer
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A Summary of My Life Thus Far
I’m a writer or something like that. I will regain my status as a tap dancer soon. I had a boy, lost a boy, got another boy. Loss pending. I adopted a dog, adopted another one, and adopted another one (the last of which was in part due to my fondness of odd numbers, 3s…
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Paducah by Tel
*Tel wrote a brilliant poem posted in the comments section of my poem, “Goodbye, Lincoln Nebraska” that I thought was too cool not to share. Thanks to Tel for being a good sport and an even better writer.* Goodbye, Paducah Kentucky with your run down buildings lining a boring riverside. When the floodwaters come, even…
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A Reader’s Purge: Binging on the Ruminations of Little Girls and Dying
I’ve been crying since I was eight years old. Blame Lurlene McDaniel. I do. In the summer of 1987, I found death on a shelf at the Lee County Library in Sanford, North Carolina. I had been looking for those pre-teen romance novels, the ones where boys didn’t have naughty intentions and girls said no…
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Beneath the Bark: The Rooting of Uncle Tree
Over the course of the last two weeks or so, I have had the pleasure of being involved in a fantastic discussion about writing and living well. As interviews go, this one offers insight and sincerity, and I hope you, dear reader, appreciate the self-depricating wisdom of our very own Uncle Tree. #1. What made…
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The Ties That Bindo
Bindo let me interview him for my blog. You know you will giggle as I did. (I suppose I should admit I’m not sure if the pronounciation is biiiiindo or beeendo.) Bindo’s note to you, dear reader. Before I answered any of Medicated Lady’s questions, I felt it necessary to put on Beck’s “Sea Changes”…
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Creationism
I tell my friend some people, you just can’t help they’re projecting on you all the things they can and can’t see in themselves that you’re like them or different or approximately equal to or greater than or less than who what they are I tell him you can change your perspective but you can’t…
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