Tag: writing
group name: mnlife
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November 07, 2006 08:25 AM EST --
Talk about everything - and anything - but politics on election day? Why not? Sure, some of us are delighted in the day, glad to see our work primed to display results, looking forward to the event, . . . more
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April 28, 2006 12:07 PM EDT --
beryl recently sent me a link to her page at the Minnesota States ArtsBoard site of the Art of Recovery reading she did last weekend, at theMinnesota State Arts Board. There's a video of her . . . more
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May 13, 2006 12:27 PM EDT --
<h1 style="">About me</h1>
Born at 10:04am proving early on that I was NOT a morning person.
My first "playpen" was a bushel basket.
. . . more
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September 20, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
Well, it has been a quiet week in mine. The neighbors are visible more, doing their various lawn tending chores and waving from their work with rakes, and brooms. Our neighbor to the north has been out . . . more
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July 07, 2008 09:55 PM EDT --
See the sly boy's face...
Between the thicket of two pines...
Look up, see the sunshafts...
Busting through branches, through leaves and tangle...
Of maple fronting . . . more
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July 17, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
He's quite certain that his parched throat, his squint means no disrespect to the sun.
Morning breaks and with comes the bravery of songbirds seeking food
It humbles him ... . . . more
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July 20, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
The robin's alarm and the crow's rude cackle are all to be sensed...
The world still sleeps, except for the birds of pre-dawn...
So complete is the darkness here, no laws exist, . . . more
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May 01, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
Well, I've been writing every day for some 6 months anyway, so when they asked around the table "who's going to be the editor", I said I'd do it. I had actually thought . . . more
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September 17, 2007 02:41 PM EDT --
Synonym and Antonym were fighting again. It was their old sibling rivalry that fueled them. “What is IS the same.” Said Synonym.
“No it’s not! It’s the opposite!” . . . more
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May 05, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
In my last post, I mentioned how helpful it can be to do local readings and interviews first -- before you go on tour with your book.
While I've been doing these local readings and . . . more
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March 03, 2006 05:02 PM EST --
They say that in Minnesota, we've got it all -- all four seasons, that is -- the warm spring, the hot-humid "lake days" of summer, the beautiful, colorful fall and the cold, snowy, lovely . . . more
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September 21, 2007 03:58 PM EDT --
fallen leaves of change
blown by gray winds of autumn
startled sunlight here
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May 09, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
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This week, we're looking at another common confusion: the word peruse . Alex from Los Angeles, California writes . . . more
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June 24, 2007 07:11 PM EDT --
A habit of 12 years...glancing out the cabin screen door to check that Nick is still sitting on the bottom step. If he is not there, he has followed a chipmunk to the woodshed or is on the neighbors porch . . . more
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July 03, 2007 12:53 PM EDT --
Things in the herb garden are going swimmingly. That's a figure of speech of course because there hasn't been much water in the Twin Cities other than from my garden hose. I've been using . . . more
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April 03, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Our subject today is a pair of rather confusing words: uninterested and disinterested .
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English , the word uninterested means simply, "not . . . more
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April 10, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
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"I feel bad ."
"I feel badly ."
Which is correct?
Today we discuss this common pitfall when writing . . . more
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April 17, 2008 07:36 PM EDT --
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Jeff Deck wanted to make a difference.
When the 2002 graduate of Dartmouth College attended his five-year reunion, he mingled with . . . more
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June 19, 2008 02:45 PM EDT --
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No other part of speech causes as much confusion-and demonstrates . . . more
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December 13, 2006 05:20 PM EST --
I started my holiday baking last night. One of my favorite cookies to bake are ginger snaps. The following recipe is adapted from Learning to Cook With Marion Cunningham. You’ll need:
¾ . . . more
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