I am in here.
Image by Tom Marcello via Flickr Two days ago, my friend Donna and I, as well as Other Patti, whom you might know from these pages and who is visiting me here and doing some work on our home (she’s an interior decorator, did I mention that? I think I might have, but am not … Continue reading Processes of writing
An exercise I have set myself is reading (every day? who knows) a poem that I haven’t read yet, preferably by a poet that I am not very familiar with. The latest in the series is Marriage by Marianne Moore. It’s a very long poem — typically I avoid those — and has many quotations … Continue reading Looking out at the poem
You might not have noticed it, but I have been writing furiously these past couple of days. Well, I must admit that the reason you haven’t noticed this is that I have been doing the writing in an unusual manner. I have been using a pen (sometimes a pencil) to do the writing with, on … Continue reading Writing by hand
I must admit that the Librarian is correct: the new Kindle 2 does inspire passion in a reader, or it would if passion hadn’t been declared a cliché in my last post. His comment reminds me that, before it became a cliché, passion was a perfectly good word, acceptably used in the politest of companies. … Continue reading Cliché: the rehabilitation?
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