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Stop Sweating and Start Chiinabetting - Betting is the new norm for being right in the sports sector. With everyone trying to get the art of4 hours ago
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The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley - If you loved The Bedlam Stacks, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street or the Lost Future of Pepperharrow (and I know I did) then good news, Natasha Pulley has ...10 hours ago
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Skywatch Friday - A Bridge to Fall Edition - [image: Untitled]“Bridges symbolize change and flexibility! They show us this simple philosophy: When you are on one side, you can easily move to the other...10 hours ago
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11 Translated Books by Asian Women Writers to Read This #WITMonth - [image: Image of 11 Translated Books by Asian Women Writers to Read This #WITMonth] Happy #WITMonth! To celebrate this special occasion, we've chosen el...13 hours ago
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How I Stopped Resisting Change and Embraced the Road Ahead of Me - *“Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she became a butterfly.” ~Unknown* Change is constant, from small changes like trying a new hobby ...1 day ago
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Some Of Kind Company by Nan Östman - Some Kind of Company by Nan Östman Swedish Fiction Original Title – Ett slags sällskap Translator – Julia Rivers Source – Review copy I am always happy wh...2 days ago
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First draft: Crow - *Crow* is what I'd like to be doing about that pose I finally held for maybe five seconds ten days ago after seven years of forward rolls and faceplants. Th...2 days ago
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Wild Bird Wednesday 471 - Black Swans - Black Swans (*Cygnus atratus*) are a common sight in Australia - assuming you can get out of your house! These birds we just loafing around in the sun at...
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2021 Monthly Book Award Reading Challenge [August Check-In] - Welcome to the August check-in for the 2021 Book Awards Reading Challenge. This month’s task is to read a book (or books) that WON an award in August – any...4 days ago
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a role model … - As I tried find a way to animate my coat hanger people for my MA in textiles without previous experience in isolation I was at a loss. Until, while researc...5 days ago
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PAGE AND THOUGHT CONJUNCTION - This thought came into my head yesterday. It's deeper than it looks. Read the rest at the main Blaugustine: http://www.nataliedarbeloff.com/blaugustine.html
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Book of the month: Nanjala Nyabola - Although most of the books I feature on this blog are fiction, one of the titles I refer to most often from my 2012 quest to read a book from every country...6 days ago
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Acid reflux in Frogpond - the last page missingfrom the library book—late autumn evening Frogpond sampler 41.2 Spring/Summer 2018, and p. 27 .6 days ago
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José Ortega y Gasset on the True Meaning and Measure of Intelligence - "Intelligence asserts itself above all not in art, nor in science, but in intuition of life."1 week ago
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The Nightly News - I want to write a children’s story like Shel Silverstein. It’s going to be about a little boy, about playgrounds and kickball, old cartoons centered arou...1 week ago
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"Open House on Haunted Hill" is a World Fantasy Award Finalist! - I was quite a surprise the other day to scroll through the list of World Fantasy Award nominees and see my name. Yes, I've been blessed this year by kind...1 week ago
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Around the World in 1998-1999; Tuscany Italy - What it was like to travel in Tuscany Italy in 1999. Easter in Florence, wine tasting at Nippozano winery, and visits to monasteries and small towns. Plus ...1 week ago
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das Vergissmeinicht und der Donnermond - ... and just like that another month of summer has sped by. I awoke this morning with a foggy head. It has been an extraordinarily hectic summer. Good fri...
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A new favorite place on earth. - I have a new breathing spot. It took Corona to limit my travelling to turn me around and go back to my roots. There I found it. My heart breathes eas...
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The Thing About ‘STEM’ - When I was young, I got the impression very early that I should go into science and be good at math. It’s actually one of my earlier memories: if I could b...2 weeks ago
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Catching up on the United Tastes series - In earlier posts this year, I shared about the United Tastes project that my daughter and I are working on, reading and cooking our way alphabetically thro...
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Flash Fiction - Popliteal Fossa @ FLASH FICTION MAGAZINE by JEN KNOX Money was born at the backs of her knees. As a young girl she stumbled, and the coins piled up be...
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Late Autumn - late autumn we finally buy a grave Haiku Foundation Haiku Dialogue 1/16/213 weeks ago
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A Walk in the (City) Woods - There's a place in the northeast part of the island of Montreal where a stream has been allowed to stay in its natural state. It's surrounded by woods, and...3 weeks ago
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Text prize - I'm totally stoked to have made the shortlist of 7 out of hundreds of entrants to the Text Prize for YA and Children's Writing!3 weeks ago
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forthcoming poems - This summer I am looking forward to the first issue of The Spotlong Review, which will have one of my poems from the series of moving the linguistic furnit...3 weeks ago
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European science fiction published - The anthology European Science Fiction #1 – Knowing the Neighbours was published by Future Fiction yesterday. Authors from 15 countries … Continue reading →3 weeks ago
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Bad News - In the morning there was a Linden treewhose whole body looked on fire.Its branches had grown in a desperate way.It came closer, knowing I’d be trying to wr...1 month ago
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Hugging Trees, Braiding Sweetgrass & Other Thoughts On Loving Our World - When was the last time you hugged a tree? Believe it or not, I’ve spent the last couple of days doing just that. Remember a couple of weeks ago I recomme...1 month ago
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Like Love - “Love is the fulcrum on which the teeter-totter rests,” writes Michele Morano in her wry, relatable memoir, LIKE LOVE. Over the course of fourteen linked...
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An Interview with the Arts and Literary Journal, ArtAscent - It is May 2021. With the launch of Fishermen's Fingers (my e-novella) in January. And While the Kettle Boils (micro fiction) releasing in March, it slip...3 months ago
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Lockdown diary - The house across the street is a two storey building whose roof terrace is in level with our balcony. Every morning I see an elderly man watering the plant...3 months ago
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From my window, 4th May - How black the rain-soaked branches of the rowan against the new, bright leaves.3 months ago
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The Patriarchs – An Elegy - The weather in the window this morning is snow, unseasonal singular flakes, a slow winter’s final shiver. On such an occasion to presume to eulogise one ma...3 months ago
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A Reminder-poem - My love is a wound on your left thigh It will not fade with time The wound on the heart does But I have left a reminder. ~Abha Iyengar, March 25, 2011. (Up...4 months ago
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My first ever independent blog review and interview - Drink with a dead man reviewed on Carol McKay's Lockdown book blog https://carolmckay.blogspot.com/2021/03/sandra-davies-drink-with-dead-man.html4 months ago
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The dread of a writer’s block - (with tanka, a 5-line Japanese short poem also called song) Amazing how crunched up the mind gets when on its own it churns up an ocean, an ocean of time, ...4 months ago
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On This Day She on Dan Snow's History Hit podcast - Happy International Women's Day! Over at On This Day She, every day is international women's day - and we were delighted to be interviewed for Dan Snow's...
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Persevering through February - The nice thing about writing a blog is that I can re read it myself, even if no one else does! I can revisit previous years and remind myself of past scene...5 months ago
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The Lonely Robot - The robot had been left behind. In one moment, he was still mining and not paying attention, in the next his masters had left the planet and he was all by ...
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[sponsored] How Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technology Is Changing the Online Gambling Industry - Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are emerging and taking over existing industries. Blockchain is a decentralized system to keep track of data. ...6 months ago
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In Memory of Mums - At Christmas time we are reminded of Christmases past and those that are no longer with us. It has been a hard year for a lot of us and we lost my Mother-i...7 months ago
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New website/ New blog - This blog has moved. I have a new website and new blog here. Please visit www.noranadjarian.com for the latest news on my writing!7 months ago
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Seating Consciousness - This short piece by Tam Hunt in Nautilus asks whether the brain’s electromagnetic fields could be the seat of consciousness. What does that even mean? Let’...8 months ago
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Pittsburgh Current Takes the Wideman Challenge with a Triple Feature - Pittsburgh's newest alternative weekly, *Pittsburgh Current*, has taken up the Wideman Challenge with three pieces on John Edgar Wideman in one issue: Fi...
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Review: D (A Tale of Two Worlds) - Dhikilo is a young orphan from Somaliland (not to be confused with Somalia, which everyone she meets does) growing up in a very English home in a very En...10 months ago
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New Location, New Look! - After many happy years on Blogspot, my blog has moved - and I have a new website. Here's my new blog - with all the old content from this site: https://ww...1 year ago
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A Life in Five Buicks - by Linda Boroff Roadmaster Summertime, Hopkins, Minnesota: I toddle from the back door of the Elmo Park Apartments, skinny in suspendered blue corduroy pa...1 year ago
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New Blog Location - Hi all and thank you so much to anyone who is still following me here or has started following me recently! I noticed that a couple of people have found me...1 year ago
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The Netherlands opens borders for Serbia and for Montenegro - The Netherlands has followed the advice of the EU to lift ban on entry for several countries. The list of countries will be reviewed every two weeks, or ...1 year ago
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Poem: Our Assorted Quarantines - My poem, Our Assorted Quarantines, about living on an island COVID-19 has not (yet) reached while friends and family around the world have to isolate thems...1 year ago
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Notes From the Bunker - 23rd March 2020 The first thing I said to my CBT therapist on our skype call last weekend was: I’ve picked one hell of a time to deal with my health anxiet...1 year ago
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A Snapshot of Current Beliefs - "A Snapshot of Current Beliefs" video poem by Vivian Faith Prescott Collage poem by Vivian Faith Prescott A Snapshot of Current Beliefs I think of t...
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Core Star - Core Star: Link to my other website where I have created an animation showing the manifestation of change and constancy through this pattern.1 year ago
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‘Tis Always the Season for Shortbread Cookies - In my family, Christmas just isn’t Christmas without shortbread cookies. Both my parents loved cooking and baking, but my father and I usually made the sho...2 years ago
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An Archive of Rhubarb History - Worth more than cinnamon on the Silk Road; acidic in the cold, but good for dying; your great-aunt dips the raw stalks in sugar. period blood the moon move...2 years ago
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2018 Reflections: Reading, Writing, Rituals - *Reading* Another reading year gone by. While I haven't been on the blog much, it has been a rich year for books, with some of my favorites of the year p...
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the blue collection 9: Home (Winter 2018 / 18.10) - the blue collection 9: Home (Winter 2018 / 18.10) Home featuring DeMisty D. Bellinger J. P. Dancing Bear Nicholas Fairclough David Heg Ted Mc Ca...2 years ago
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sky, with a bit of cottonwood - Two Moon Park on a holiday was not busy. Pairing the words, busy and park, feels wrong and we were glad to see few people there. Father and young son on b...3 years ago
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“In the Alcoholic’s Apartment, A Time Machine” by Chelsea Dingham - Clearly, I am a horrible blogger. But a lovely thing happened to me today, which is that Lisa Mecham stumbled on this old post of mine about her poem “Revi...3 years ago
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Getting Ready to Dive - A lovely spring morning here...at last! Seems like it's been weeks, months since we've had a mild, blue sky morning. I walked the big loop to the river a...
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(g) fortunes /sentimental sediment? (1.21) - Fortune: Don’t forget you are always on our minds . sentimental sediment? . spam and spoofed trash have little weight and no value though they take up spac...3 years ago
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A poem a week... - https://ofkells.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-2018-poet-bloggers-revival-tour.html3 years ago
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Facade of Naulakha Palace, Gondal - The 18th century Naulakha Palace at Gondal is one of the oldest palace in this town. It has a beautiful sculpted facade. The palace has magnificent ston...
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this blog continues... at blueprint21.de - I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog page. If you browse to: *blueprint21.de/blog* you arrive at a nicely sorted...
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Change is Good--Right? - Hello dear readers--are you still out there? It's been awhile, and I wouldn't blame you for moving on. I felt the need for change, and have spent some tim...
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New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’ - New painting, small oil on wood panel: ‘Early Morning Moon’3 years ago
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A special sentence structure - [Nine years ago today, I started this blog. It will be on hiatus with today’s post, my 510th. I’m in a transition into semi-retirement teaching and writi...4 years ago
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - This is the fourth book on the TWEM list, the first one I have read before, and the first one I actually enjoyed instead of endured. I remember ADORING P...
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LITERATURE: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children - Honestly hadn’t heard of this novel by Ransom Riggs until I saw the trailer for the Tim Burton movie and of course, was fascinated by it. While well-writte...4 years ago
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Goodbye blog - I am switching to a new website. I'll leave this blog live for another month or so, after that I'll take it offline. I hope you'll find my new abode pleas...4 years ago
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Best Small Fictions news and nominations - Kicking off the new year with news from my recent trip to Europe. First, I had the pleasure of reading in Berlin in December, with a reading series sponsor...4 years ago
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2017 Category Challenge - *Challenge Summary: * To encourage ourselves to “read outside the box,” in this group we (each) pick (our own) categories to read within. You can have as m...
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How about Valencia? - Need to change the name of this blog from literary blogging to travel blogging, since that’s most of what appears here lately. When I bother to post anythi...4 years ago
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Blessing the Boats - Blessing the Boats By Lucille Clifton may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you k...5 years ago
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From Bookworm to Social Butterfly - Originally posted on YA Author Rendezvous: Written by Julie Tuovi The eReader was a great invention for YA fiction-addicted adults everywhere—for those who ...5 years ago
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Decoding Static Relaunching Soon - Decoding Static home to the writing, art and photography of Andy Harrod. Including the books, Living Room Stories and tearing at thoughts and the art proje...6 years ago
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Harga Asus Zenfone 2 di Indonesia saat Ini - Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML yang disebut product teranyar dari vendor Asus serta termasuk product teranyar di seri Asus Zenfone Series. Meskipun umumnya product...
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Disco Poem - A while ago I took part in a call for work with a disco theme. I was paired with an artist who would paint a portrait to fit with my written work. I was pa...6 years ago
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Indefinite Space 2015 - *from minimalist to avant-garde ---* *open to innovative, imagistic, philosophical, * *experimental creations--- poetry drawings collage photograph-- * *...
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The Reasonable Ogre - Much as I appreciate retellings of fairytales, reading new ones is an altogether different pleasure; especially when these are fairytales for adults or m...6 years ago
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La Paloma Amarilla - Like all drunks, we wake up laughing. Then we lie there for a long time, not moving. “I don’t want to move,” says K. “I’ll find out how drunk I still am.” ...6 years ago
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Books that have had the most impact on me - Back in December, when the current meme of Top Ten Most Influential books was going around Facebook for the first time, I made a list but never got around ...6 years ago
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Beberapa Objek Wisata Pulau Lombok Yang Wajib Anda Kunjungi - *Pulau Lombok*, siapa yang tak kenal dengan pulau yang indah nan mempesona ini. Pulau Lombok bisa jadi merupakan pulau yang menjadi saingan Pulau Bali di ...
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Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan - Originally posted on GIANT READER: by Brian Alan Ellis Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan Civil Coping Mechanisms, February 2014 142 pages / $13.95 Buy...6 years ago
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Paw Prints in the Sand - Day 77 Listening to: Dance Hall Days Thought for the day: One small paw print for man. One giant leap for man’s spirit! Many of you are like me in that I’m...7 years ago
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The return of the Not.. - Just a quick note to Not heads out there who wonder what's been up. You're about to see some changes at the Not as my focus shifts from fiction to pop-cult...7 years ago
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blueprint new year blogroll - *BluePrint Blog Roll* notes + photos reflections + reviews postcards + quotes & much more from around the world. enjoy ~
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Mangroves save one Philippine coastal town from the worst of Typhoon Haiyan - From PRI’s program The World, Michael Holtz reports: Mangroves form low-lying thickets that hug the shore of coastal areas in tropical regions around the w...7 years ago
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Sunday Sniffles and Surprise Baskets - This morning I woke up and peeked out the bedroom window. Rain. And it was cold. And my nose was clogged on one side. And it was hard to breathe. And so I ...
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I’m back! - So you may or may not have noticed my complete disappearing act. Many months ago I disappeared from book blogging, not because of lack of interest but lack...8 years ago
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Blog moved to Wordpress - My main blog is now Poetry Notes and Jottings on Wordpress. Updates for 2013 will be visible there.8 years ago
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Intrepid Explorer - The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the *Magazine of the Museum of Everything, *who enjoy his accounts of unreli...8 years ago
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Return from Lethe - Engulfed by black ripples of forgetfulness, beyond the fallen towers of the night toppled by the moon’s delivering rays, to the hidden boats of weariness a...8 years ago
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Lake Rebecca Park Preserve - Very green through the area, and everything growing thick making it hard to bushwack through the non-path areas. The raccoons climb higher into the trees, ...8 years ago
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On The Wires > qarrtsiluni / Animals in the City - They woke me up at the crack of dawn. Looked out my window. Here’s what I (heard and) saw … On the Wires now live at qarrtsiluni in the ‘Animals in the Cit...8 years ago
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viewmasters and earthquakes - Fellow Travelers: I wake up from the semi-hibernation of late December and realize January is well underway. On Friday the 4th, nearing midnight, a 7.5 ear...8 years ago
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I joined a challenge or two. - I like to be challenged. I like having a goal to work toward. I love reading. Can you see where this is going? I've signed up for some reading challenges. ...8 years ago
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34 - The space they are in is years long. Two, they hover on a threshold. One reaches to touch the other. The hand goes through. Waves radiate. The past is...8 years ago
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Hey, it’s only been a year… - Maybe more than a year. But, here is a new blog update, at last and finally. Mostly this is just to say I’m joining the “7 Continents, 7 Billion people, 7...8 years ago
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Highlight: Deniz Utlu in translation - For this special highlight in our final highlight series this month, we have a collection of five “minimals from the … Continue reading →8 years ago
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Blog Carnival 6: All About Frankfurt - We said Carnival 5: A VIEW FROM HERE was the last Blog Carnival, but when we saw the photos, links and updates from Frankfurt, we knew we had to put togeth...8 years ago
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Low Road - Day 100 The sun shone through the window. A young girl was sitting on a chair listening to her ipod. It was once her mothers. Her father had saved her life...8 years ago
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100/100 For dragon eggs? - Shall we open the door? What story, the old or the new? We have lived so long and so well In our green fable Shall we open the doors? [from ‘Uranium 2’...
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Hakawati - Hakawati, qui signifie – diseur de Conte – en langue arabe, est une errance paisible. C’est un voyage qui débute dans un aéroport et nous mène dans une d...8 years ago
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Kaffe in Katmandu Says Goodbye - It’s been a psychedelic ride with you guys, thank you for all the fun and the faces and so much dada during 2011, but after one year and infinite degrees...9 years ago
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New - It's that time of year again when we say goodbye to the old and say hello to the new. This is a favourite time of year from me as it's a chance for me to r...
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Street Scenes - Our street was a desolate, one-way suburban enclave smack in the middle of the town center. Next to it lay the busiest main road at the time, the susurrati...9 years ago
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#100/100 Window - This photo was originally published on YB Poetry blog in June 2011. All other photos--the ones taken by me--I've post...9 years ago
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Sahabat Anak Leaving Party - Sadly, as my teaching contract draws to a close in Indonesia, it is time to say goodbye to my beloved friends and students from Sahabat Anak, Prumpung. As ...
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Hibernation - is a sweet thing–concerns darkness, being afraid. A leather building? I have been hibernating in January–just a note to say I haven’t for...10 years ago
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Lens-Artists Challenge #159 – Postcards - “I’m just hoping we can keep the spirit of the humble postcard in mind while looking at people, places and things.” Martin Parr This week Ana has offered u...4 days ago
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Like Love - “Love is the fulcrum on which the teeter-totter rests,” writes Michele Morano in her wry, relatable memoir, LIKE LOVE. Over the course of fourteen linked...
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Develop your personal connection to the desert, and do some work! - I’ve been working hard over the last seven months to revamp the Oregon Natural Desert Associations Independent Stewards Program and all that hard work is s...2 months ago
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this blog continues... at blueprint21.de - I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog page. If you browse to: *blueprint21.de/blog* you arrive at a nicely sorted...
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New trail, new blog! - In case any of you would like to come along, I’m hiking a series of high routes in the Sierra Nevada August and September of 2017. You can read more at kat...3 years ago
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