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  • Halloween Costume Options

    Deciding between: 1. Olympic swimmer in a square-cut speedo and swim goggles or 2. Clark Kent changing into Superman The weather will probably make me decide. But I do love some hot pants on Halloween.

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  • In reading blogs yesterday, it began to become clear to me just how nice it must be to live on the East Coast. All those cities so close together! So many cultures and communities just a brief commute up or down the coast. All those little states (blink and you miss one—there goes Delaware! Hey,

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  • That’s a Wrap

    Living Things is off to the printer! It’s laid out beautifully and I’m so happy with it. I can’t wait to have a copy in my hands!

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  • In a flurry of retroactive activity, I’ve spent several days revising old manuscript poems. It has been going well. I have to revise in hard copy, and I have to use a pencil to make changes. Sometimes I pull out whole poems. I’m not afraid of that. They don’t work. I see that now. I

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  • There are times in your life when you must retreat. There are times in your life when you need to step forward. There are times in your life when you have to hold out your hand because you believe something will land in it if you wait long enough. There are times in your life

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  • Everyone at our school knows that the girls in drama are real easy because they’re mostly fat and they don’t have good self-esteem. Actually, they’re not really that fat, but they all complain about it all the time. Once I heard Lily Owens talking to one of her skank friends after school and she was

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