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The process of sending written work—stories, essays, poems—to editors and agents who represent authors’ work is called “submission.” Just now, I am submitting a complete novel. The novel concerns a women who marries unwisely, suffers mightily, and must find a way to remake her life. It might sound like a metaphor for my writing life.…
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I wanted to post this to Facebook, but I am not on Facebook. FOR THE WHITE PERSON WHO WANTS TO KNOW HOW TO BE MY FRIEND Pat Parker The first thing you do is to forget that I’m black. Second, you must never forget that I’m black. You should be able to dig…
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I won’t call it a “bad day” because no one I love died or is in the hospital or lost their job or anything momentous. It was not a cruel day or a day the weather was so ferocious that we didn’t get our walk. I walked a couple of miles. I showered this morning.…
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This will post on a weekday, but it is Sunday as I begin writing. Vegetable parings from the past week are in my cast iron pot on the stove. I am filtering water to pour over onion skins and parsley stems—the trimmings of a week of cooking. It became a habit when I was working…
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Even on “reality TV” the firing is done in person. Trump seems to want to play things both ways—hiring and firing at random and then those ousted find out when someone in the news or working in the West Wing takes the trouble to forward a tweet. Really? Is that any way to run a…
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We have this in common. We are wounded. “Many factors determine the severity of a wound, including a bullet’s mass, velocity and composition, and where it strikes. The AR-15, like the M4 and M16 rifles issued to American soldiers, shoots lightweight, high-speed bullets that can cause grievous bone and soft tissue…
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We did not see the film The Darkest Hour until recently. I had concerns about the lead, about the film, and particularly about its subject, the much lionized Winston Churchill. It is one of my nightmares to find myself teaching a subject I know little to nothing about, such as the Boer War. Even so,…
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We went to a promo presentation of Michelle Horgen’s new musical Scarlet at Powell’s Book Store in Portland last month. The songs were beautiful, the brief performances impressive. We drove over the coast range especially to see it. Tickets were on sale at the event, but I’d already bought tickets to the official Opening Night.…
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