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another missing Bubba story

Missing Bubba! **11-year old Basset Hound** Lives at 3025 Tyler Ave, Ogden Last seen on Thursday 9/5/13 Please call 801-334-9518 or 801-920-1655.             Good thing Bubba’s so cute…the stress that dog gives me! So the … Continue reading

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TS Eliot

“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all” from “Tradition and the Individual … Continue reading

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great blue herons

I keep seeing herons: walking on Tyler Avenue last Sunday, golfing on El Monte, strolling through the Homestead Resort. Much like the owls I saw repeatedly two years ago, I decided I must be seeing these birds for a particular … Continue reading

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Taos Summer Writers Conference

I have so much writing and reading I could be doing, but I thought I’d try to capture some of this experience while it’s still fresh. Here’s the schedule of events. And the conference blog. This is my typical day … Continue reading

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my world

I was walking the dogs this morning–following our usual route up the hill past the old St Ben’s, around the tennis and pickle-ball courts, along the Mount Ogden putting green, beside the soccer fields, then back over the hill on … Continue reading

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Sylvia Plath and Boston

I watched Sylvia last night–it’s been in my Netflix queue for a long time, it finally surfaced and arrived, and then I set it aside for a week or so before I carved out the time to watch it. Not … Continue reading

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Conference Sunday and Suffrage

A sleepy Sunday morning. It’s LDS Conference, so that means rain. I don’t know why that is, but ever since I moved to Utah, in 1978, it always seems to rain on conference weekend. I remember working on the Hotel … Continue reading

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looking back/looking forward

Rereading my blog posts for 2012–and saving them into a Word document, I’m paranoid about losing stuff–I discovered that I haven’t talked much about work, writing, research, and the stuff I originally started my blog to do. Obviously I needed … Continue reading

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several things

I feel pulled in so many directions, that I decided I needed to make time for writing this morning. It’s cold, crazy cold for the 3rd day of spring. But there’s a little bit of sun, and if you sit … Continue reading

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zombies

This afternoon Maggie and I saw Warm Bodies, described as a “paranormal romantic zombie comedy.” I’ve never been much of a zombie fan–in fact, no fan at all–so now I’m wondering what’s up with zombies? Guess I’m way out of this … Continue reading

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