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There are lots of things I do "daily" (or almost daily) in order to keep myself feeling relatively ok. I went to a therapist this Winter who said to me, "You sure do a lot to just stay feeling decent. You sure you don't want to try medication?" Made me laugh. Made me get a...
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I am looking for suggestions in the following categories: I want to record some tracks. I need to find a studio that has a piano or keyboard. I also would like to find someone who can transpose what I play into written music. Any and all suggestions would be most humbly appreciated.
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On one of my weekly treks to the Noveltown postal hub where big puffy packages arrive full of books, I opened Women on the Edge Writing from Los Angeles, edited by Samantha Dunn and Julianne Ortale. Dunn sent the book of short stories for N.L. Belardes of Noveltown to read and review. Good thing...
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I was up late, working, as usual.  All was quiet but for the sound of the fan droning endlessly on, to itself, and the iron in my hand, hissing softly as steam curled up around the pattern I was pressing.  It had been plenty loud ealier;  Kayleigh, the little girl...
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(A beloved oldie but goodie) "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." Charles Dickens My heart sometimes breathes on paper. It pours stuff out that I didn't even know was there, way deep down in the bottom of the well, ...
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I wasn’t expecting to teach a full session of my writing workshop today, I was thinking we would meet briefly on the telephone conference line  and I would move along to the other “stuff” on my sometimes relentless “to-do” list.   I shared a couple...
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I sat on my porch early last Friday morning, writing my morning pages amidst a delectable showcase of weather on a finally-turning-to-Autumn morning in Bakersfield.  We get used to “hot” or “fog” rather than anything extraordinary, so it was exceptionally...
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I got mixed messages about who I was supposed to be when I was a child. I got even more detailed, specific instruction about what I was supposed to do with that being.  I remember my mother insisting that I was supposed to be a writer! "You are going to be a writer!" she would say...
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hello, everyone; remember the rollergirls' fundraiser tomorrow at the dome!... i have a blog ostensibly about my band, but more usually about my life, at www.duskdevils.blogspot.com ... the latest stuff is about summer vacation, lysa luna's tarot art, the fabulously talented bloodshot bill, stuff...
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