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Book of the month: Olga Tokarczuk - As with last month’s pick, July’s Book of the month came by way of a recommendation. I have known Magda Raczyńska, head of literature at the London-based P...6 hours ago
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Green Almonds, reprise - The following conversation with my father-in-law occurred almost a decade ago, but whenever I see green almonds in the market, they remind me of him, and I...12 hours ago
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Method in answer to madness - The lawyer said, a petition for status might not take as long as it used to back in the day. But at the same time, no one knows; things could […]12 hours ago
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Oxford - This time yesterday I was in a plane somewhere between Zurich and Singapore. Physically I am now at home, but chronologically I am in another time zone. ...
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How I Stopped Trying to Please Everyone and Started Prioritizing Myself - *“When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you don’t say ‘no’ to yourself.” ~Paolo Coehlo* My whole body was shaking. Tears streaming down my face, my nos...14 hours ago
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(g) A Cooling Down? (7.24) - A Cooling Down? Nearby Town broke Records: four inches of rain in one Hour Flash Flood warnings Reverberated all around Our rain arrived after Dusk Hungry ...17 hours ago
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‘refugee child’ (paper boat) translated into Chinese! - My poem ‘refugee child’ (paper boat) on ‘Neverending Story: Butterfly Dream,’ the First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog, today, translated i...23 hours ago
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The City and the Writer—In San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina with Elena Bossi - [image: Image of The City and the Writer—In San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina with Elena Bossi] If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have l...1 day ago
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#FutursticFriday Review: The Unwomanly Face of War - Summary: This was a tough read, but it was amazing to hear emotional, first-hand accounts from women in WWII. I previously read Nobel Prize-winning, Belaru...1 day ago
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(M)id-Year Book Freak Out Tag [The 2017 Girlxoxo Edition] - The “mid-year book freakout” tag has been going around the interwebs for a few years now, and we decided to join in the fun. 1. Best Book You’ve Read So Fa...1 day ago
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Let the eagles go - A thing that drives me disproportionately crazy is the ‘bald eagle screaming’ sound effect in pop songs. I don’t know what is going on with this screaming ...1 day ago
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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life - "In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity."1 day ago
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Charminar, Hyderabad - The Charminar in Hyderabad, is a historic monument as well as mosque that is visited by tourista all over the world. The ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty Su...
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Glas - Wer bist Du? Who are you? I do not care, as long as you love me. These are the lyrics of a man from Sweden. Max. Seinabo Sey sings the song, and I adore he...1 day ago
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Is there an Unconscious? - Does the unconscious exist? David B. Feldman asks, and says no. He points out that the unconscious and its influence is a cornerstone of Freudian and othe...1 day ago
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Blue Fifth Reviews – Tribute to Kathryn Stripling Byer (July 2017 / #10) - Blue Fifth Reviews – Tribute to Kathryn Stripling Byer (July 2017 / #10) Any conscientious critic who has ever had to review a new volume of poetry in a li...1 day ago
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Arribadas - by M.K. Hall That August, the week I was supposed to deliver the baby I had miscarried, Joe and I went to Costa Rica to watch the turtles lay their eggs. T...
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Road Tripping with Faulkner - I won’t go into details. I know you don’t want to know this part. Maybe you don’t want to know any of it, who could blame you, but especially this, I’d i...1 day ago
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bird sky, storm sky, sunset sky - We had a weekend of all kind of weathers and places: from sunny skies to cloudy to thunderstorms moving through. Here are some highlights, the first 3 are ...
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5 Oblique Plotting Strategies - I am still struggling with the creation of feasible plots. By feasible I mean plots that make me want to stay with the story over the long haul – weeks, mo...
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Muir Woods or Bust - Ian Woollen - [image: muir_woods] You can always look forward to a delightfully madcap cast of characters in Ian Woollen's novels, and *Muir Woods or Bust* *(forthcomin...3 days ago
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Before by Carmen Boullosa - Before by Carmen Boullosa Mexican fiction Original title – Antes Translator – Peter Bush Source – Personal copy So now on to Mexico in th...3 days ago
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HEART BRAKE - I'm working slowly on updating the autobio. But meanwhile, nuggets of poem-like things suddenly pop into my head. I might or might not illustrate them. Her...4 days ago
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Skywatch Friday - 20 July 2017 Edition - [image: DSCN8828] Welcome to the latest edition of Skywatch Friday. The place featuring photos of the sky from all over the world. Please link your post wi...4 days ago
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Shanghai Street Scenes - Wandering around Shanghai, I could not help but be fascinated by the colorful and varied scenes from everyday life in the city. As in many cosmopolitan cit...5 days ago
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Seeing red - The last few weeks in the garden have been literally fruit full. We had a lovely crop of dark red morello cherries, not really dessert eating cherries but ...6 days 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...1 week ago
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? - I do hope so. There’s been a lot going on here lately that I will tell you all about soon. But in the meantime, I’ve got an essay on Henry Miller up at Num...1 week ago
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Holiday reading - Even this far north ‘Midnight sun’ a misnomer, its vermilion orb already dipped below the horizon as the haar comes in on the tide, thickening a silence br...
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Asian Monsters is shortlisted to BFA! - I am very honoured and chuffed to tell you that Asian Monsters is shortlisted to British Fantasy Awards. Asian Monsters … Continue reading →1 week ago
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30 Days At The Beach Or Why We All Need To Take A Break - Like I said in my post last week, Thom and I are spending the month at the beach. Our primary excuse is to escape the heat of our desert home. But frankly,...1 week ago
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My poetry collection published today! - So happy to officially become a Nine Arches Press poet, with my first book of poems, Terms and Conditions - out today! Here's my 'Happiness' poem - more a...
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Not Altogether Yogic - I was storming out of the Target, Seventh Generation laundry detergent in hand. They didn’t have our kind of toilet paper, and I’d travelled all this way, ...1 week ago
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The lonely crowd - I'm grateful to Valerie Sirr for including my story "Katherine Mansfield's Sheets" in her guest editor issue #7 of The Lonely Crowd. And thanks to John ...
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Palmerston North, Here We Come! - Poetry Reading Friday 21 July - You can buy books by Tim Jones online! Voyagers: SF Poetry from NZ from Amazon.Transported (short story collection) from Fishpond or New Zealand Books Ab...
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Zucchini Chutney for Idlis - Among gardening types (sadly, I am not a member of that club), it is well known that come summertime, zucchini is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing b...
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Purplish prose in The Sea of Grass: Conrad Richter’s break-out “western” - The Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter ~ 1936. This edition: Knopf, 1973. Hardcover. 149 pages. Writer Conrad Richter, 1890-1968, occupies a place in the panth...2 weeks ago
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How I Spent the 4th - Calvignac No surprise....the 4th of July is a non-starter here in France. The only thing special about Tuesday...it was the Tuesday of the last week of sch...
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Great Things I've Been Reading, June 2017 Edition - Nebulas: Done! 4th Street Fantasy: Done! College Reunion: Done! The blitz of Spring turning into Summer is almost over. I just have one convention left -...3 weeks ago
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love song to summer - This came across my mailbox today. A little view of The Summer Book in the Coast Reporter. Nice to see my name in there as well. Love song to summer The Su...3 weeks ago
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Echos - Journal Infirme n°31 Dimanche 25 juin 2017. Echos perçus et sollicités. Pendant plusieurs jours, nous avons visité des églises dans le Cotentin, passant de...4 weeks ago
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Apparently there's a heatwave further south - Sky the colour of unchanged bed-sheets from which someone rose daily returned to every night for days enough to count as half a year. Weekend lie-ins occasio...4 weeks ago
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log entries: june - Guest reader at Smokelong Quarterly. Ryan Ridge reads from collaborative project-in-progress WEIRD YEAR on KPFK radio.
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We need to talk about Diane Abbott. Now. (EXPLICIT CONTENT) - Originally posted on JACK MONROE: This is not a recipe. I wrote this as a series of tweets today and readers asked for it as a blog post, so here it is. Ou...
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pretty Paula Jane - I am near to howling with frustration and anxiety on multiple fronts, but there has been massive progress on others, and splendid things do abound. My hand...1 month ago
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New Book and Author Events for the Summer - An essay of mine was accepted by a friend from Chicago, Ben Tanzer, for his This Handbook Will Change Your Life book series. Debt will… Read More1 month 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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Publishing News -- Exeter Writers Short Story Competition - I've been rocking third place lately. That's a personal criticism as well as a sincere shout-out of gratitude to the competitions who've chosen my work: p...
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Bright eyes that reveal her heart - There’s a new Bücherregal in Neugasse now. The old shelf was narrow and made of wood; it matched the street’s character. The new one is taller and wider, a...1 month ago
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Gostegodd 006 - For Prediction Fiction here This weeks words: flaccid, lullaby, sack Stonesblood. Mark didn’t know how old it was, but it had that preserved look of pla...2 months ago
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Not Dark Yet listed in Huffington Post - Not Dark Yet has been included in a list of 17 novels about dystopia in Huffington Post, alongside novels by Don DeLillo, Jeff VanderMeer, Kim Stanley Robi...
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N is for Nghệ / Turmeric - “After women give birth,” my Vietnamese mother-in-law explained, “they get coldness. Turmeric heats the body and protects against colds or flu. Also,” she ...3 months ago
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Why do we doubt ourselves - photo credit V. Conrad I was all set to write a blog about the benefits of reading our work in public (note the pic of me seriously reading Love on a Wedn...3 months ago
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13 Simple Tricks for Avoiding Being Dragged off a Plane by an Agent of the Corporate State - Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution Read more →3 months ago
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Reading Jane Kenyon - I’ve been reading Jane Kenyon’s Collected Poems lately; I have something to learn from her, from how she wrote out of her quiet life poems that spoke to an...3 months ago
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Observations: April, 2017 - My father once told me he'd been a genius for a few days. For fewer than a hundred hours in his life, sometime in his early forties, everything made sense....3 months ago
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Debate: Saraswati Pujas should continue to be organized in schools across Bengal - For the Motion: Mosarrap H Khan First, the call for a stop to Saraswati Puja celebrations in schools (especially the public-funded ones) comes from a new-f...
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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 months ago
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Participation in "Sardam: Alternative Literary Festival" - A performance of my work "Tempus Fugit" in October 2016. Photos by Ore.
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Trainstorm-An Anthology of Alternative Train Poetry- a Review - Trainstorm-An Anthology of Alternative Train Poetry Ed. Dr. Amitabh Mitra The Poets Printery, East London, South Africa Date of publication: October 2016 P...
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WINTER STORIES - WINTER STORIES Winter Stories Crows alight on the bare fish-cleaning table, cold rain splashes away lingering fish scales, and the smok...
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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...5 months ago
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Bearing Witness--The Wall - Today they started building The Wall. When I woke this morning and went down to the kitchen, Mum and Dad weren’t there. I followed the low murmur of the t...
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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...6 months ago
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Last time in Lyttelton - When I first came to Lyttelton, it was December 2011. I came because I was in New Zealand for two and a half months without much of a plan, and the opportu...
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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...7 months ago
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Magic at the Crossroads. - I am interested in the liminal and transformative nature of the space in between. Threshold magic. The important utterance of a client as they grasp the ...9 months ago
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Thanks - Thank you so much for all your kind words, dedications and time given to thinking of Mum/Viv during the time of her funeral. In particular, thanks to Lind...11 months ago
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November: Lamprey River - New comparisons of video quality after researching better upload methods.1 year ago
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book spine haiku… - 1. then and now… the little prince under the sea wind 2. far to go– the concubine when the wells run dry 3. the piano– basil and the pygmy cats joy luc...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...2 years ago
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Interview with Rami Shamir - Today I'm posting Part One of my interview with *Rami Shamir*, in the last 29 hours of a Kickstarter campaign for his novel TRAIN TO POKIPSE. This expl...
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EDB 301 6W2 2015 Pop Discussion Quiz - Video on the Common Core State Standards Question: What would critical pedagogy have to say about this video? What is the “social foundation” of the ideas ...2 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...2 years ago
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cascade - The book of prairie is broad with stories and platters of bottom land, bald eagles in the cottonwoods waiting for another day to fly. This is how we know a...2 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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Bow Ties on the Radio - Most people know today as tax day, but for me it’s a year since this dapper chap wandered into the department office suite while I was prepping for student...2 years ago
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STERN by Jane Hammons - New photography up at Revolution John Magazine : the cement ship in Monterey Bay, Seacliff State Beach, Aptos, CA.2 years ago
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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...2 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.” ...2 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 ...2 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...2 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...3 years ago
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The Book and Biscuit Has Moved! - Hello, I’ve moved to self host so all posts can now be found at The Book and Biscuit3 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...3 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...3 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...4 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.4 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...4 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...4 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, ...4 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...4 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...4 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. ...4 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...4 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...4 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 →4 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...4 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...4 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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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...5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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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...6 years ago
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Of Bitches and Bastards - Okay, so I'm on my own now. There's a lot of stuff I need to learn how to do, and not just home maintenance stuff that used to fall on Dan. I've got al...6 years ago
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Idaho Sawtooth Adventure: Day 3 – 4ish miles - Last evening we climbed the rest of the way up to Edna Lake and what had to be the best campsite in the area. The headwall of the south fork drainage still...3 hours ago
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bird sky, storm sky, sunset sky - We had a weekend of all kind of weathers and places: from sunny skies to cloudy to thunderstorms moving through. Here are some highlights, the first 3 are ...
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San Francisco – WPC Unusual - “For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.” Simon VanBooy For those who live … Continue Reading San Francisco – WPC Unusual5 days ago
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PCT SOBO WA part 1: Despacito - 7/14/17 to 7/18/17 Harts Pass to Canada Border to Rainy Pass 91 miles Day 1 I wake at dawn to birdsong in Premila’s backyard in Bellingham (dawn comes so e...5 days ago
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Character: Who Are You When No-one is Looking? - The greatest legacy we can leave our children and grandchildren is not money or fame, it is character. Character is built on goodness, integrity, kindness...
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Not Altogether Yogic - I was storming out of the Target, Seventh Generation laundry detergent in hand. They didn’t have our kind of toilet paper, and I’d travelled all this way, ...1 week ago
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The Gila is a Cold Wet Wonderland - It’s 111 miles to Pie Town from Doc Campbell’s Outpost, the general store in the middle of nowhere New Mexico where we’ve whittled away most of the morning...
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