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Half-Empty Pages: March 2009

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Ruminations on writing, life and the writing life. Friday, March 13, 2009. Just a quickie tonight. The urge to write is strong, but I must sleep soon. I’m flying to Cleveland tomorrow afternoon, and before that I have many Important Tasks to finish at work. Not getting enough rest before flying means the immune system is weakened, and as we all know air travel nowadays primarily involves being sealed in a metal tube with a hundred vectors for god-knows-what sorts of germs and viruses. In Austin the first...

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Oregon Mountain Real Estate - Illinois Valley, Oregon

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About The Illinois Valley. Illinois Valley of Southern Oregon. Why do People Come Here to Live? It's a way of life! In the quiet seclusion of a river valley, they find individual fulfillment and a means of self-expression that big city living can't possibly provide. The rural non-sophisticated atmosphere provides a peace that most visitors have almost forgotten, and many have never known. Well hold onto your hat! Culture hounds are thrilled by the classic and contemporary plays presented at the nationall...

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Half-Empty Pages: December 2009

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Ruminations on writing, life and the writing life. Sunday, December 27, 2009. I’ve been watching the snow come down all day. It’s not a hard snow, just a steady stream of fat flakes drifting diagonally through the air and piling up in a fluffly white ground cover. This is the same storm that caused blizzards to the south and west of Chicago. Here, though, just a nice, steady snowfall. Here are two photos, one taken six days after surgery and one taken today, 17 days later. My right knee still looks bad, ...

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Half-Empty Pages: November 2008

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Ruminations on writing, life and the writing life. Sunday, November 9, 2008. I keep having to slap myself when I hear the words “president-elect Barack Obama.” It’s hard to believe. Tuesday night was like some kind of breakthrough therapy session in which I discovered I don’t have to stay in this abusive presidential relationship I’ve suffered through for the past eight years. I can demand better. We can demand better. Most people who know me know I wasn’t a big Obama supporter. George W. Bush, the p...

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Half-Empty Pages: The Myth of the Golden Turd

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Ruminations on writing, life and the writing life. Thursday, August 20, 2009. The Myth of the Golden Turd. I'm glad I went to journalism school when I did, and learned from the people I did and have had the career I've had. Because with people like Rebecca Maitland and Karen Zurawski. Around, newspapers will be dead in a decade. And when the corpse is buried I'll be glad to still be above ground, knowing I did it the Right Way. Excuse my language, but this story stinks. This isn't rocket science; it's jo...

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Half-Empty Pages: June 2009

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Ruminations on writing, life and the writing life. Sunday, June 7, 2009. I often complain I never write anything, but that’s not true. I write emails and instant messages all day, every day. Some of my favorite turns of the phrase and most insightful analysis have been contained in brief missives I’ve tossed off in the minutes between projects at work. It’s when I sit down to deliberately compose something that I get fouled up and stuck. What’s up with that? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). On the Writing Life.

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Half-Empty Pages: September 2008

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Ruminations on writing, life and the writing life. Thursday, September 11, 2008. I remember those first images we saw when we turned on the TV that morning after hearing vague and conflicting news reports on the public radio station, WNYC, as we prepared to leave for work and school. And I remember immediately thinking we had to get our cameras and stop at the Brooklyn Promenade before getting on the subway. Which we did. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Offerings to the Muse. On the Writing Life. Arcata Eye ...

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Half-Empty Pages: October 2008

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Ruminations on writing, life and the writing life. Wednesday, October 15, 2008. Getting on the Bike. By almost any objective measure the “gold standard” of writing about what it’s like to ride a motorcycle is Hunter S. Thompson’s 1965 essay, “Midnight on the Coast Highway.”. I am still a novice at this riding thing, having only started this past April. I took the Rider’s Edge. The Sportster is considered by Harley enthusiasts to be a “small” bike. Its engine, at 73 cubic inches (1200 cubi...However &#822...

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Half-Empty Pages: August 2009

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Ruminations on writing, life and the writing life. Thursday, August 20, 2009. The Myth of the Golden Turd. I'm glad I went to journalism school when I did, and learned from the people I did and have had the career I've had. Because with people like Rebecca Maitland and Karen Zurawski. Around, newspapers will be dead in a decade. And when the corpse is buried I'll be glad to still be above ground, knowing I did it the Right Way. Excuse my language, but this story stinks. This isn't rocket science; it's jo...