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Jen's Write Side: This is August
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Saturday, August 4, 2012. This is also an open letter of apology to any human being who encounters me today.). My beverage of the morning is a venti dark roast from Starbucks. Black. Kindly ignore the fact that I haven't shaved my legs. I moved yesterday. My nose is blue, and I'm not a Smurf, nor am I being abused. I play Ultimate Frisbee. The sequence of a committed, if unsuccessful, dive is this: knees, hips, elbows, nose. My injuries correspond. Beach photos to follow. Labels: Quirky Afternoon Thoughts.
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Jen's Write Side: Home, Autumn, and Rain
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Thursday, September 22, 2011. Home, Autumn, and Rain. Stories from the New York City trip to follow, but for now, this is my way of celebrating home, autumn, and rainy weather. Autumn in a Stew Pot. About 3 quarts water. 1 tbsp butter or margarine. 3 cloves of garlic, minced. 1/2 small red onion, diced. 1/2 tsp dried celery, crushed. 1/2 tsp dried basil, crushed. 1 small butternut squash, peeled and cubed. 3 small red potatoes, cubed, skin on. 3 stalks celery, diced. 3 small carrots, diced, skin on.
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Jen's Write Side: This is August, Y'all
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Saturday, August 25, 2012. This is August, Y'all. They like to drag their feet. Walking in sand, you know, is very slow going. However, this happened:. Then I had a brief love affair with a bag of potato chips. Or several. (The relationship may have been polygamous.). Returning, I became an at-home professional in a new "office":. Just kidding. It's August, y'all. I'm not in school. This is weird. Labels: Quirky Afternoon Thoughts. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. April Is th...
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Jen's Write Side: Today's Quote
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Monday, July 30, 2012. Briefly back, and currently loving this poem by St. Augustine. Pretty smart dude. I praise the dance,. For it frees people from the heaviness of matter. And binds the isolated to community. I praise the dance,. Health and a clear spirit and a buoyant soul. Dance is a transformation of space, of time, of people,. Who are in constant danger of becoming all brain,. Will, or feeling. Dancing demands a whole person,. One who is firmly anchored in the center of his life,. How could I for...
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Jen's Write Side: Recommended Reading
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Madeleine L'Engle, The Time Trilogy, Many Waters. JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Children of Hurin. Michael Crichton, Timeline, Sphere. Ursula LeGuin, The Earthsea Quartet. Octavia Butler, Kindred. JK Rowling, Harry Potter. CS Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy. Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games. Jonathan Safron Foer, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Yiyun Li, The Vagrants. Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies. Barbara Kingsol...
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Jen's Write Side: On Lying in Bed
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Friday, September 28, 2012. On Lying in Bed. GK Chesterton, sometimes you just get it right. Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. This, however, is not generally a part of the domestic apparatus on the premises. [.]. Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. On Lying in Bed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. On Lying in Bed. There w...
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Jen's Write Side: September 2012
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Friday, September 28, 2012. On Lying in Bed. GK Chesterton, sometimes you just get it right. Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. This, however, is not generally a part of the domestic apparatus on the premises. [.]. Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. On Lying in Bed. Thursday, September 27, 2012. Movie Preview, 2012. So many good movies to anticipate!
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Jen's Write Side: All in the Rhetoric
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Thursday, September 6, 2012. All in the Rhetoric. Last night, I watched Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention, and I was frankly captivated. What a compelling speaker she is. My next thought was that I would love to use her speech as an example for rhetorical devices and oratory in general. I'm getting back a little of my fire back, y'all. And it feels great. The Debater in Me. Thoughts on God and life. September 6, 2012 at 11:32 AM. Michelle is a rockstar. I havent seen his speec...
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Jen's Write Side: Dream a Little Dream of Me
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Thursday, September 13, 2012. Dream a Little Dream of Me. The mental health experts would have a field day with this one. Scenario: The dear cat of the house encounters the crazy about 5:30 am and begins running suicides across the house, ending each one by slamming against my bedroom door. Subsequently, I have a vivid, memorable dream that I am attempting to recoup, among other things, a dozen or more loaves of sliced white bread, and I am being attacked by a gang of middle school boys brandishing sticks.
