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One of the things that I’m finding as my photography gets out there more is that the world is a very small place. It may seem huge when we want to travel or when someone we care about is thousands of miles away but it really is a [...]

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I was recently talking to a friend and he said that he didn’t want to be responsible for anyone else’s happiness. When in a relationship, it is each person’s responsibility to find their own happiness. Each person can enhance the other’s life but it is not the [...]

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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
Many of us keep journals, but while doing so few of us pay much attention to selecting the most precise words, to determining their most effective order, to working with effective pauses and breath-like pacing, to presenting an engaging impression of a single, unique [...]

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I am thinking about some of you who I know read my blog with some regularity. There are those of you who rarely comment but read. There are those of you who do comment. There are those of you who send me e-mails instead of commenting [...]

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I was racing around yesterday. I had last minute gifts to get, a salad to make, Dakota to feed and take care of, and I had to remember things.
I’m typically the early one to family gatherings. In fact, my brother often tells me that it’s okay for [...]

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What a perfect night to celebrate a holiday. It is the longest night of the year and it’s a downward slide toward spring and summer from here. It’s a night of sparkling lights, good cheer, family, fun, and love.
Happy Solstice, my friends.
While you may not celebrate the [...]

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On Monday, NPR did a segment on the Poetry Archive that is being established by Britain’s Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion. On that site, we will be able to hear poetry spoken by the writers themselves. One of the recordings that fascinated me was Tennyson’s recording of “The [...]

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Another thing I love: water. I love the feeling of it as it washes over my body in the shower. I love to soak in it in a bathtub. I love to glide through it in a pool or the ocean or a lake. [...]

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I have love affairs with cities. Some of the most beautiful cities in the world have been at the center of my fantasies: San Francisco, Edinburgh, and Vancouver. I have even had a love affair with London with its amazing museums and rich history. I [...]

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This needs a lot more analysis, I realize. It was my first major graduate level paper and it’s something I’ll be working on in my next semester, as well, so it’s still a work in progress.
The Blogosphere: The Rhetorics of a Woman’s Role in Virtual Communities
We are well into the new millennia and the [...]

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