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Category Archives: Process

It’s as if Easter were meant to be an occasion of renewal

04-Apr-10

I remember Easter of last year as if it happened last week, because I never really left that moment; its impact at the time, while clearly enormous, has since been impossible for me to articulate.  Before I explain what happened last Easter at the Richmond Friends Meetinghouse, a bit of background: I’d been there before, [...]

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Because Googling lyrics is cheaper than therapy

21-Feb-09

Some time ago, I tweeted, “I really need to find a way to sort out which of the voices in my head I should be listening to, and which I should ignore.” Lest anyone imagine I was joking, I present the following, composed, yes, entirely on my blackberry this morning (with a few edits/link and [...]

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Houston, we have a synopsis!

03-Nov-08

In case you don’t hear much from me over the next month, the reason – I mean, besides “the election, my children, and drowning in bills” – is as follows (as previously announced here). Word count shown here reflects only my first two days’ work, still quite short of the ideal average of 1,667 words [...]

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National Novel Writing Month

01-Nov-08

This time last year, I gave up meat. (Although there were two instances in which I broke down and had clam chowder, one moment when I accidentally had some vegetable dip I didn’t realize was clam-based, and then, after one particularly stressful day when it seemed that all was lost, I numbly chewed through one [...]

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Catharsis-seeking-after-trauma: Lather, rinse, repeat.

21-Oct-08

While avoiding packing for my trip to Greensboro tomorrow (though – crap – it’s now 4:11 AM, so let’s call it “today”), I ended up watching a movie called Heaven which I found interesting enough to look up on IMDB, leading me to a distracted series of link-clicks until I ended up at a completely [...]

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Oh yeah, I have a blog.

19-Oct-08

In the middle ground between tweeting and blogging, there is, apparently, tumblr-ing – so in case people had wondered whether I still formed thoughts outside 140 character increments and the occasional hellishly long post here, this is where I’m doing that. It’s nothing much, but it’s more than nothing. If I were a smart girl, [...]

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I had also considered “Scotch and Prune Juice”

14-Sep-08

So I’ve changed my blog title from Square One (which had only been intended as a placeholder anyway, after my blog-nukage back in April) back to one I used for a while in 2006, Southern Discomfort. I guess it’s the only title I ever truly loved, so there you go. At the time, I explained [...]

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There is something funny about watching this podcast download…

11-Aug-08

…while I am battling insomnia.

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Oral fixation (not that kind, pervs)

10-Aug-08

Now that I’m a few days into serious work on a story (notes toward which may be found here), I find myself reverting to an old habit: breaking up the intensity by jumping up every so often, wandering aimlessly through the house until, inevitably, I find myself in the kitchen. Then I end up eating [...]

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See if I don’t

07-Aug-08

Last night, after hanging for awhile at Randy’s, my husband dropped his cell phone from his motorcycle, while going (he claims1) 65 mph. Evidently, after paying a toll on the Powhite Parkway, he’d forgotten to re-attach the Velcro strap of the bag in which both his change and his phone had been stored, so a [...]

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