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wife, mother, writer, poet, painter & gardener. Good literature, painting (not watercolor), pen and ink drawings, good food, good music and quilting.
About Me
Education: Ivy covered professors in ivy covered halls...
Food and Drinks: Fondue, dark chocolate, raspberries, buttered popcorn and cranberry juice.Books: Henry the Fifth, My Family and Other Animals, The Count of Monte Cristo, Pride & PrejudiceMovie Stars: Meh...Movies: Patton, Henry the V, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Rundown, Chairots of FireT.V. Shows: Science channel & re-runs of Frasier.Music: Classical, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, the CureQuotes: ''Choose your wife as you wish your children to be...'' - Author Unknown
Food and Drinks: Fondue, dark chocolate, raspberries, buttered popcorn and cranberry juice.
Books: Henry the Fifth, My Family and Other Animals, The Count of Monte Cristo, Pride & Prejudice
Movie Stars: Meh...
Movies: Patton, Henry the V, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Rundown, Chairots of Fire
T.V. Shows: Science channel & re-runs of Frasier.
Music: Classical, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, the Cure
Quotes: ''Choose your wife as you wish your children to be...'' - Author Unknown
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An ode to the perserverance of Man
Reviewed Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
This book--bar none--is one of the finest examples of well-written first-person perspective novels that I have ever read; held up against these pages, many a Read more...
A bold reminder of why 'wild' animals are.
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Reviewed Call of the Wild - Jack London
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The slow strangulation of communism
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Reviewed Animal Farm - George Orwell
I cannot deny the brilliance of using a farm (a thing so easily understood by most folks) to illustrate the vast complicated workings of communism. PersonificRead more...
To tell a tale, and so tell it well.
Reviewed A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
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Northern California’s mild winter-has rather quickly-turned into a vigorously wet spring. The needs of a gardener-to turn soil, add compost and map out beds-are not hampered by such a thing as inclement weather. Thus, the 8 O’ Clock chime this morning found me exiting the door to the back Read more...
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Crusoe’s quasi-idyllic world changes considerably the day he discovers a human footprint in the sand while returning from a long expedition. Panic descends, but no so gripping a one as first befalls him when he was shipwrecked. The wisdom gained all those years proves itself useful and Robinson fort Read More...
The discovery of ink on board the ship switches the prose from memoir-style to daily journal entries, which are no less riveting; we follow Crusoe during his building of shelters on various parts of the island, his expeditions, his hunting trips, his many attempts to build a boat, his bouts with sic Read More...
The storm that brews shortly thereafter proves to be the pivotal action climax of the story, where the main character finally learns that a bird in hand is worth two in the bush… but oh, what a cost he pays to acquire this bit of wisdom. Abandoning the ship, the crew is tossed hither and yon and fin Read More...
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---------------------------------------- Lesson Nine: The Other Eye ---------------------------------------- While I wish I could write without err, whether grammatical or spelling, the facts fly in the face of such a whimsical daydream. The blatantly honest editor has grown in my esteem over the Read more...
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------------------------------------------------ Lesson Seven: To Speak, to Drawl no More... ------------------------------------------------ Dialog must be good. As seemingly simple a thing as that phrase is to utter, or write, one cannot dismiss the important of keeping your characters’ various Read more...
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_____________________ Lesson Six: Show Me _____________________ Good books exist in a ‘Show Me’ state, as in the vastly repeated phrase: show, don’t tell. It is a mantra that one’s English teachers/profs eschewed often and then would get all worked up about when this point was flagrantly ignored Read more...
My new weekly column focuses not on home or garden, but of the writing industry and the gradual changes that have been taking place therein. Read the column here: Live Link Let me know what you think; also let me know if you think I’ve missed anything, and I’ll include it in a follow up Read more...
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lol... These 'seven' were included as part of Lesson Five. Still five more lessons to come. Cheers.
Top-Ten Tips for Writing Fiction - Five
Continued.... 6. Bear in mind that the writer’s attitude will invariably sink more noticeably into an action scene than in the ‘normal’ parts of the narrative, for when humans are angered, excited or high on adrenaline they tend to be more honest than when exuding a reserved, more ‘political’ facade Read More...
Continued.... 5. Not all action need to be ‘big’; some everyday scenes can be enhanced with just a touch of seasoning to provide the variance needed, and invoke the ‘lesson learned’ phenomena. As proportion is important in painting and sculpture and photography, it is similarly vital in writing. In Read More...
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