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C) Telling Your Stories

Sensory Details: The sense of smell

July 27, 2010
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THE SENSE OF SMELL has always been my weakest sense, and I have always envied writers whose sense of smell is strong and present in their storytelling. Writers who talk about the steamy, yeast-filled fragrance of a loaf of bread straight from the oven, who remember scents of lilacs and mown grass from their childhood, [...]

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Making Meaning: Creativing a Positive Spin

June 29, 2010
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AS I WAS LYING ON MY BACK this morning, groaning through one of my yoga stretches, I was thinking about the journal entry I wrote earlier. I had, in the spirit of my weekly Journaling Through Life E-zine, written an entry using one of this week’s writing prompts. The topic was Time, and the prompt [...]

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Why Write? Anchor Your Memories

June 1, 2010
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This post is the second of a series titled “Why Write?” Reason to Write #2: Anchor Your Memories MEMORIES HAVE A WAY of floating away and out of sight as we go on with our lives. Have you ever wished you could go back in time in order to know what really happened on a [...]

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Fan Wavers International

May 18, 2010
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YOU CAN ALWAYS spot women who are going through menopause by our fans, which we pull out of purses or coat pockets, unfurl, and wave wildly in the general direction of our faces. The low-tech, folding variety haven’t been in popular use in the States since the early 20th century, and a woman with a [...]

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Family Affairs

April 17, 2010
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HAVING JUST RETURNED from my oldest son’s wedding in Florida, I’ve been thinking a lot about family this week. Images of the bride’s family and of mine keep flashing through my mind—a grand mix of ethnicity, language, and age. Traditional images of family are turned upside-down when our children and grandchildren are the same age, [...]

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Clover Heaven

March 1, 2010
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ON A RECENT WALK, the afternoon light filtered softly through a thick web of oak branches and leaves, the tree branches forming an archway that beckoned me into nature’s hall and to some magical place beyond. Spider web  filaments, stretching from branch to branch, danced in the breeze. Beneath my feet, a delicate carpet of [...]

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