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Scott McAdams on Trick or Treat Street

Saturday for me means writing at Side Street Espresso. But this Saturday was also downtown Anchorage’s “Trick or Treat Street” event — & a special treat with a visit from U.S. Senate candidate Scott McAdams. Continue reading

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Recalibration

I’ve been mostly silent on my blog for the past month, & here’s why: to recalibrate & get back on track with my own purposes in life & on this blog. Continue reading

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Metsän henki

“She stands outside & in me, / a flicker beckoning / at the inmost limit of vision / where the blind spot is insufficiency / of self-knowing.” A poem in celebration of National Poetry Month. Continue reading

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Jane Doe, Finnish style

How the main character of Mistress of Woodland became a philosophical forebear of my fictional Consensus society in Long Dark and Cold. Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-04-15: Writing life

Today was Third Thursday: which means an evening write-in with my NaNoWriMo peeps, who continue to meet every third Thursday of the month for just such a purpose even when its not NaNovember. Continue reading

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Mass Extinctions

‘A rip in the sky, a roar: / impact of a meteor — / shroud of iridium dust / on the dusk of Dinosaur.’ Two dinosaur poems in celebration of National Poetry Month. Continue reading

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Stone Poem

‘We rocks, we trees will give rise to new words / when you are gone to dust and scattered shards.’ In celebration of National Poetry Month. Continue reading

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The Mountain

Spine of the land thrust up / by the grinding of continents, you signify / the might of the planet. You glow like a lamp in the arctic summer. / Even in winter night do you shine. / You are never dark.’ In celebration of National Poetry Month. Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-03-28: Prizewinner

I guess I won a fiction prize worth $300, though I haven’t been officially informed yet. #fb # Finally did my Alaska PFD application: my very favoritest of socialist programs also enjoyed by Alaska Tea Partiers all over the state. … Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-03-26: Two writers meet. One says, “I’m writing a novel” and the other says, “neither am I.”

Questions about changes to DADT answered : tweets from yesterday’s conference call by SistersTalk http://bit.ly/cnnf0k # I’m so proud of myself. I just said no to someone on a political activism matter b/c I’m putting my writing FIRST. #fb # … Continue reading

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