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True Life and Fiction: March 2015
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True Life and Fiction. Writing, Backyard Farming, Old Typewriters, Nostalgic Life Lessons, and ZOMBIES! And, of course, the occasional conspiracy theory. Ellison James Author page. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Hat is it that makes you fall in love with a character (or characters) in a story? Do you like your leading men to be the strong alpha type? Should they have flaws? Should they be vulnerable? What about your leading women, should they be strong? My character's name is Joseph Johnson. He has a milita...
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True Life and Fiction: April 2014
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True Life and Fiction. Writing, Backyard Farming, Old Typewriters, Nostalgic Life Lessons, and ZOMBIES! And, of course, the occasional conspiracy theory. Ellison James Author page. Sunday, April 13, 2014. Photo credit: www.greenewave.com. Ell, this doesn't happen often. It's 3:30 AM and I'm sitting here wide awake with my head and throat on fire. Sleep completely alludes me. Oh, those torrents of the dark. Those devilish, nocturnal things. Tonight, I joined them. Cast away the invitation to sleep. What r...
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amazon — Julie Frayn
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Who is this chick? The writing's the thing. Warning – foul language ahead. April 8, 2015. Not everyone swears like a trucker (with all due respect to truckers). Some folks go their whole life without one cuss word. That’s kind of like people who never get cavities. How the hell do they DO that? In case you haven’t noticed I swear. I like the sound and feel of words I […]. Read the full article →. January 20, 2015. Read the full article →. And…. she’s off! Or out. or up. May 21, 2014. Who is this chick?
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Adventures in Alzheimer’s – microwaves on fire edition — Julie Frayn
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Who is this chick? The writing's the thing. Adventures in Alzheimer’s – microwaves on fire edition. May 25, 2015. In Adventures in Alzheimer's. Baby girl and the boy who sleeps with her took Mom her meds one morning and discovered the microwave in the bathtub. Turns out, it lit on fire. So Mom’s fix was to pour water into it. Then she wrangled it to the bathroom and dumped it in the tub, then filled the tub with water. Luckily, my systir’s old microwave (still viable and only a little dusty) was in Mom’s...
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Adventures in Alzheimer’s — Julie Frayn
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Who is this chick? The writing's the thing. Adventures in Alzheimer’s. Adventures in Alzheimer’s – New front porch edition. October 25, 2015. Mom’s front steps are the same cement blocks they’ve been since 1971. The same pre-fab porch with those stupid horizontal raised grippy bits that hurt bare feet like a mofo. Pretty sure I had three parallel bruises on my ass through most of my formative years from sitting on that damn stoop. The blocks that […]. Read the full article →. August 24, 2015. Mom called ...
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Adventures in Alzheimer’s – no arms and no legs edition — Julie Frayn
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Who is this chick? The writing's the thing. Adventures in Alzheimer’s – no arms and no legs edition. July 10, 2015. In Adventures in Alzheimer's. What do you call a man with no arms and no legs who sits in the recliner in Mom’s living room? Yeah, I know. So bad. The backstory:. That man is younger than Mom. She started working for him in the late ‘80s. They bought the house in 1971. Not for cash. The other day she asked where our car was. What car? Mom’s broken ash – no Meteor beneath it. These days it’s...
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Adventures in Alzhiemers – TV people edition — Julie Frayn
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Who is this chick? The writing's the thing. Adventures in Alzhiemers TV people edition. June 12, 2015. In Adventures in Alzheimer's. Why do they watch me? Everywhere I move, they watch me. It’s like the Mona Lisa, Mom. Just an illusion. They can’t see you. She wrings her hands and shifts her eyes from me to the TV and back. Do you think so? Yes Yes I do. I long for the days when she could just move to the left. Those crazy women keep talking on it and I want them to shut up. Not what you think! I miss th...
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December | 2014 | joepasqualewantstobetakenseriously
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Just another WordPress.com site. Monthly Archives: December 2014. December 29, 2014. Well it certainly has been a while so I thought it might be nice to have a bit of a recap of the year; and not just a general whinge at my life but life for all of us from my perspective basically what I think of you lot and what we have all done over the last twelve months. Us the human race and all that. But to be honest can we really recall some of the things that happened at the start of the year? UKIP became really ...
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art — Julie Frayn
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Who is this chick? The writing's the thing. Now that’s art. July 8, 2013. Adventures in New York City part four After our less than satisfying streak through the Museum of Modern Art, my baby girl and I decided to skip the culture and tour the streets of New York City. We hopped the subway (more on that in a later post) and rode it all the way […]. Read the full article →. You call that art? July 1, 2013. Read the full article →. Introducing… art of breast cancer. December 11, 2012. Who is this chick?
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