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The Catharine Chronicles: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015. I'm trying to teach Sylas how to pump his legs on the swing. He has the general idea, but he hasn't fully mastered the technique for increasing velocity, height, trajectory, etc. So, for much of his excitement, he must rely on someone - in this case, me - to push him from behind. Limits come in all forms - natural and man-made. But they can always be overcome. Look at that plane NASA uses to train astronauts to accustom themselves to weightlessness - The Vomit Comet. I think 2015...
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The Catharine Chronicles: Retro-Chron: Land of the Beautiful (Squished Flat) People
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Friday, January 02, 2015. Retro-Chron: Land of the Beautiful (Squished Flat) People. First published here in November, 2010:. This city will run right over you, if you're not careful. And all of them looking just ever-so-slightly unhappy. Because they failed to be careful, and this city ran right over them. Let's face it - L.A. is a bad boyfriend. If you let it, if you show it you care what it thinks about you, it will use you and abuse you, then step on you and leave your decaying, surgicall...Those sad...
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The Catharine Chronicles: October 2014
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Monday, October 13, 2014. Autumn in the House of Reflection. Photo by Nick Kenrick. Sadly, you can't have everything. One of Maddie's parents must do her watching from elsewhere. As the years go by, and Maddie's memories of her mother have faded, the photos on the walls of this house, and the memories that others have of her mother, must suffice. Photo by Seyed Mostafa Zamani. It's autumn. And I'm writing. In this house, where people live and get through the day. Nothing bad can come of that. Shouldn't I...
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The Catharine Chronicles: July 2014
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014. No One Here Is Amused By My Antics. I was on the phone with a friend a month or so ago, shortly after I'd given notice at work, discussing things that I needed to talk to my bosses about before I left. He suggested I take the opportunity to "go rogue". And we laughed, because. like. what are they going to do? Amanda's dangerous when you let her off the leash," I joked. After we hung up, though, something about the conversation stuck with me. Now, I have another choice. To li...
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The Catharine Chronicles: December 2014
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The Catharine Chronicles: February 2014
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Friday, February 14, 2014. A Valentine Love Story. I have been feeling particularly open to Valentine's Day this year - not sure why, and I'm not sure I care why. I thought, instead of my amorphous Seneca quote cover page, I'd take at least Friday - the actual day - to have a true, hearts-and-flowers, HappyValentine-y image for my cover photo. In hearts looking longingly at each other (do vampires get to celebrate Valentine's Day, I ask myself). Yet also. familiar. Happy Valentine's Day, my peeps. I ...
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The Catharine Chronicles: Leonard Nimoy Will Never Truly Die for Me.
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Friday, February 27, 2015. Leonard Nimoy Will Never Truly Die for Me. Some time in late 1980, my father, Jack B. Sowards. Was approached to write the screenplay for the next attempt to bring Star Trek to the big screen. The first attempt, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. And as a guest star (Columbo, Night Gallery). He didn't need Spock anymore, and wasn't anxious to don the ears for what might be another box office letdown. A week later, he was sitting across a table from Leonard Nimoy himself, the latter...
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The Catharine Chronicles: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014. SAYING THE DARNEDEST THINGS. Excerpted from my forthcoming nonfiction book on my observations about living life as a full-time artist. The book is called "NO ONE HERE IS AMUSED BY MY ANTICS."]. I am not quite four years old when the Art Linkletter scouts come to Melrose Nursery School in Los Angeles, on the prowl for kids who say the. Loquacious and outgoing" which is teacher parlance for "has a vocabulary beyond her grade-level and won't shut her damn pie hole". The usual answers...
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The Catharine Chronicles: Leaping Without Looking
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015. I'm trying to teach Sylas how to pump his legs on the swing. He has the general idea, but he hasn't fully mastered the technique for increasing velocity, height, trajectory, etc. So, for much of his excitement, he must rely on someone - in this case, me - to push him from behind. Limits come in all forms - natural and man-made. But they can always be overcome. Look at that plane NASA uses to train astronauts to accustom themselves to weightlessness - The Vomit Comet. I think 2015...
