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The Quaker Cafe: April 2013
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Friday, April 5, 2013. Living on a Scale. My husband then duplicates my morning adventure on the truth monster in a much more whimsical fashion, fully clothed. What a show-off! After forty years repeated morning after morning, the same words always follow. He climbs on the scale and I mouth with him, “Oh, down another two pounds. I wondered how I did that after all that ice cream I ate last night? What was I smoking? I know I write as well as many commercial writers, and worse than literary MFAs who annu...
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The Quaker Cafe: Biography
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The Quaker Cafe: June 2012
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Why This Writer Loves a John Deere. Five years ago when I retired my husband gave me a very special present. We had a screened-in sleeping porch off of our upstairs bedroom. He replaced the screens with ceiling to floor windows, extended the vents for air-conditioning and heat, put in electrical outlets and bought me a wrap-around desk. 8220;Write,” he said. 8220;Write to your heart’s content.”. I still want to. Last month my husband retired. Lord knows the man deserves to retire.
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The Quaker Cafe: December 2013
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Thursday, December 5, 2013. I just read a blog from Amy Sue Nathan. About the 10 Joys of an Empty Nest. With some interest and reflection, I noticed that she said that it was the first time she’d ever lived alone. Interesting…not exactly a new phenomenon since the number of individuals in the USA living in single home dwellings is now at 9% of total households and as high as 40% in big cities such as Manhattan and San Francisco. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Everything Happens at the Crossroads.
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The Quaker Cafe: "God is not a bookkeeper, God is a painter."
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Monday, February 27, 2012. God is not a bookkeeper, God is a painter.". Michael retired to the upstairs of his home in 2001 and took refuge in two rooms of his art studio. 8220;God is not a bookkeeper,” he tells me. 8220;God is a painter.”. Writing Miss Ellie's Cafe. I stumbled on a painting by Luis Canizare in a restaurant on Old Brompton Road in London. I am by no means an art connoisseur, however I was taken with this particular painting, Cambio de Tercio. I had a painter as a minor character. Upstair...
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The Quaker Cafe: February 2012
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Monday, February 27, 2012. God is not a bookkeeper, God is a painter.". Michael retired to the upstairs of his home in 2001 and took refuge in two rooms of his art studio. 8220;God is not a bookkeeper,” he tells me. 8220;God is a painter.”. Writing Miss Ellie's Cafe. I stumbled on a painting by Luis Canizare in a restaurant on Old Brompton Road in London. I am by no means an art connoisseur, however I was taken with this particular painting, Cambio de Tercio. I had a painter as a minor character. Upstair...
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The Quaker Cafe: Discovering the Places
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Monday, April 16, 2012. From early 1900s still resides in the back room of the local small town pharmacy.). The “real” story behind the story for me is often in the history behind the characters I create. Repeatedly, writers tell me “ get to know your character, put them in the proper place and your story will emerge. There was too much background material to include in the novel, but enough for me to get a clear picture of the people I had created. How do other people respond to it? While the local mom ...
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The Quaker Cafe: April 2012
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Monday, April 16, 2012. From early 1900s still resides in the back room of the local small town pharmacy.). The “real” story behind the story for me is often in the history behind the characters I create. Repeatedly, writers tell me “ get to know your character, put them in the proper place and your story will emerge. There was too much background material to include in the novel, but enough for me to get a clear picture of the people I had created. How do other people respond to it? While the local mom ...
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The Quaker Cafe: Why This Writer Loves a John Deere
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Why This Writer Loves a John Deere. Five years ago when I retired my husband gave me a very special present. We had a screened-in sleeping porch off of our upstairs bedroom. He replaced the screens with ceiling to floor windows, extended the vents for air-conditioning and heat, put in electrical outlets and bought me a wrap-around desk. 8220;Write,” he said. 8220;Write to your heart’s content.”. I still want to. Last month my husband retired. Lord knows the man deserves to retire.