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Composing a Writer #5. Write Long, Write Short

As soon as I escaped, I started writing poems. I was barely eighteen and living four states away from my...
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Photo Challenge: Surprise

Dawdling through chores, then a dousing in the shower And rushing to a book event, I checked the visor-mirror for...
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Touchy About Bits.

Confession #1: There was a time that I would have sold my soul for a spade bit with 12" shanks....
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Composing a Writer #4. Why Words Matter

  She's been my friend for decades. That was me at her daughter's birthday party, singing and tap dancing in...
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Photo Challenge: Security

The feel of home. You tuck it safe in some tidy place, half-way between fresh dreams and dear memories. If...
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Touchy About Contact

Question from a reader with a mouth-sensitive green horse: " ...when I watch a video of me riding I worry that...
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Composing a Writer #3. Comfortable Creativity

The first time you saw him, he was hurrying down the street, hat brim pulled low, and his cape flying...
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Photo Challenge: Dense

Stupid. Dense. Stubborn. Lazy. Until we stop seeing others in our own worst self-image, these words will describe us. .......
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Circling Back: How We Became One.

We were hooked and it was written all over us. The first weird looks passed between our parents. We were...
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Composing a Writer #2. Just Write

We're big talkers. We debate and dream and create. There are issues that good people should agree about on but...
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