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Friday morning, the hurricane-formerly-known-as-Earl had wimped its way out of North Carolina — without leaving us so much as a drop of rain or a gust of wind. But at least the surf was up at the end of the island and I got to watch a little wave action. [Double click on any of [Continue reading] Sure doesn’t look like a Category Four hurricane is headed directly toward us, does it? And yet…. as with any good story, you just don’t know what’s going to happen before it does, even though the clues and warning signs and tingle on the back of your neck tell you that — something — [Continue reading] Scrawled on a soggy scrap of paper at the beach yesterday:
Conf’rence call — cancelled. Exactly one year ago today, Nancy Drew Too rolled out its first blog post! It’s my blogaversary! It’s a birthday! I followed my writing buddies Kathan, Darksculptures, and Dayner into the blog pool and we started swimming. In the deep end. Little did I realize at the time how much y’all would [Continue reading] So where am I with my Creativity Workshop goals, my One Story Per Week plan? I’ve already admitted that I didn’t write a single word during my vacation. My bad. But I do have a couple of semi-stories in the hopper from my ‘Breaking the rules/breaking the law’ segment — again, more [Continue reading] This one’s for mothers of teenagers. Dayner? DS? Sorry I didn’t get this out on Mom’s Day. I’d spent most of the night in the hospital emergency room with my neighbor and was pretty tired, but probably not as tired as she was. Eoew, I’d forgotten how much head wounds [Continue reading] As you may know, Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize last week for his novel, Tinkers. Oh, you didn’t know? Neither did Harding, who found out only by looking on the Pulitzer website. I learned the story from the April 15 Boston Globe article, A tide of affection for prose that nearly went unpublished. [Continue reading] When I started blogging in earnest last year, I thought I’d share smatterings of my writing, talk about writing issues and have, if I was lucky, maybe half a dozen writing buddies to compare notes with and prop me up during writing crises and National Novel Writing month. Which is pretty much what [Continue reading] Two things: ** So I notice this license plate on the ferry: HA INC. It’s from one of those [Continue reading] Here’s my Sunday world, in about 25 miles and five hours. The yoga babes connect and head for the 10:15 ferry, which is currently at the “yellow” threat level, according to TSA. Given how peaceful it is here on the water, I’m inclined to think that refers to the yellow-green pollen, which is coating [Continue reading] |
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