In my attempt to write more often I went to the Brown Bag at San Diego Writers, Ink on Tuesday with Ted.
Brown Bag is a 1 hour drop in writing session downtown at the organization where Ted and I teach. It’s from noon to one so we often get folks coming in on their lunch [...]

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<–got this photo at an antique store just outside Johnson Vermont last month. On the back it says “Uncle Fred’s brother Alvin. Hazel’s father.”
Today had one of the longest (and most productive) days of writing since I got back from Vermont.
Also, kind of nice to go with the hubby and write.
We went to down to [...]

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Poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning carried out one of the most famous romantic correspondences in literary history. They first introduced themselves by epistolary means, and fell in love even before they had met in person.
In 1845,  they wrote 574 letters to each other over the course of twenty months.
They secretly got married in 1846. [...]

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“To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of as well as the force of lust, to write, to love.” ———John Cheever (from The Journals of John Cheever)
Been back from my residency in Vermont for two weeks now. Ooof, talk about [...]

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Wow. I can’t believe it’s over. My last day at Vermont Studio Center.
So much to say but my head is utterly pounding and the thoughts in my brain a-jumble — anxiety about travel tomorrow, the strange ritual of packing up after 5 weeks away, the  goodbyes to dozens of wonderful people. What is there to [...]

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In Boston until Sunday, when I go to Vermont.
Lovely here– snow fell yesterday and we went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I misread the website for the museum– thinking that the Costumes of Edith Head was an exhibit, when in fact it is a film series. So we walked around the museum [...]

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Ted’s been away over a week and i’m going stir crazy! Thankfully he is coming home tonight.
It was only a week, I know, but when it’s just me and the kitties it gets a little weird. I wonder what he’s going to do when i’m in Vermont for a month doing my writer’s residency?
So, the [...]

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Saw David Sedaris last Friday, the night before Halloween at the newly renovated Balboa Theater downtown. The tickets were $50, and actually belonged to my lovely friend Jess, but she was sick, and her boyfriend was busy with rehearsals for a show, so they offered them to myself and Ted (and one extra ticket that [...]

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Walt Whitman
When I Heard at the Close of the Day
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the
capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow’d;
And else, when I carous’d, or when my plans were accomplish’d, still I was not happy;
But [...]

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Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays!
From NPR The Writer’s Almanac:

On this day in 1666, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary:

25. Christmas day. Lay pretty long in bed. And then rise, leaving my wife desirous to sleep, having sat up till 4 this morning seeing her maids make mince-pies. I go to church, where our parson Mills [...]

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