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Writing the Good Read: June 2007
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Writing the Good Read. Monday, June 18, 2007. In Love with Miranda July. For Mothers' Day, my husband gave me a book. Please understand that this is the finest gift this girl can get. Oh sure, diamonds are nice and all, but give me pages and I'll be yours forever. Well, only if it's a good book, I guess. He surprised me by looking about, finding this Web site. Thinking, hey, Mj would like this, and ordering it to arrive before Moms' Day. When I awoke that morning, he handed me Miranda July. Books are ver...
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Writing the Good Read: August 2006
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Writing the Good Read. Wednesday, August 23, 2006. When I was a sophomore in college, one of my classmates was the mayor’s son. We were part of a group of would-be writers that formed a society, established for the purpose of hosting readings on campus and publishing the annual literary magazine. One afternoon, early in the fall semester, we were hanging around the English department, me, the mayor’s son, the future MFA poet and the goth girl. I think of the mayor’s son when I write and when I’m caught o...
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Writing the Good Read: January 2007
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Writing the Good Read. Thursday, January 11, 2007. Michael Castro and John Brandi at B and N in St. Louis Jan. 18. The St. Louis Writers Guild. Presents a reading Thursday, January 18th at 7pm, at the Barnes and Noble Ladue Crossing Store featuring poet and translator Michael Castro and New Mexico poet John Brandi. The store is located at Ladue and Highway 170 (taking the Ladue exit you can go straight across the street into the Ladue Crossing Shopping Plaza where the store is located). It's not unlike b...
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Writing the Good Read: March 2007
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Writing the Good Read. Sunday, March 18, 2007. There is a singular pleasure in shopping for books at the library book sale. Comfortable among fellow bibliophiles, moving as though choreographed, sideways stepping , spine-reading heads held at an angle. I spent a glorious part of the afternoon at the Charlottesville Friends of the Library book sale. If you see me there, do say hello. I always love to meet a fellow reader. Friends of the library. Posted by StLmom @ 7:36 PM. View my complete profile. When a...
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Writing the Good Read: October 2006
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Writing the Good Read. Tuesday, October 17, 2006. Mastering the Monkey Bars. Remember the first time you stood on the ground and looked up at the monkey bars? Maybe you watched another kid swing his way across before you took your turn. What comes so naturally to us as children; introducing ourselves, trying new activities, can still as adults as long as we abandon that tiny part inside of us that cares what others think. Recently, I wrote an article for The Commonspace. Only this is my first time to con...
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Writing the Good Read: November 2006
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Writing the Good Read. Wednesday, November 15, 2006. Continuing my steady diet of memoirs, I'm wrapping up. Me Talk Pretty One Day. By David Sedaris. I'm delving into. In the middle, I read a book of my daughter's that I quite liked;. Aimed at the 10-12 year old set, but I loved it just the same. Thoughts about memoirs: Will it sell if it's not by . . . A gay white man;. Someone who grew up in a war-torn country;. A former or current drug addict;. A mental patient; or. Posted by StLmom @ 7:34 PM. After a...
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Writing the Good Read: February 2007
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Writing the Good Read. Monday, February 19, 2007. The Book List Meme. Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicise the ones you want to read, put an X in front of the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole, put a cross in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of. 1 The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown). 2 Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen). 3 To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee). 4 Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell). 21 The Hobbit (Tolkien).
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Work It: A Blog for Working Moms: A Letter from The Management
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Work It: A Blog for Working Moms. Opening the door to a dialogue about the joys and fears of working moms. Tuesday, October 17, 2006. A Letter from The Management. Dear STL Working Mom:. We are writing to notify you of some items that have recently come to our attention. We feel strongly about bringing these items to the forefront so you may address them. Please know that we do this because we CARE (Can Always Rescind your Employment.). Get on it, Mom. The kids would like to keep their teeth. Frankly, we...
