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The Intersection of Food and Writing

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Writing Nag — No Comments ↓

People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don’t you write about the struggle for power and security and about love, the way others do? They ask it accusingly, as if I were somehow Continue reading The Intersection of Food and Writing→

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Education is…

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Writing Nag — No Comments ↓

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.Robert Frost I never got back to the laptop Thursday or Friday. Catching up with returning students and faculty, meeting the new students and getting Continue reading Education is…→

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Leaving on a jet plane…

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Writing Nag — No Comments ↓

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou This is the Continue reading Leaving on a jet plane…→

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The night that numbs the leaf

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Writing Nag — 1 Comment ↓

“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.”Boris Pasternak (Russian poet, 1890-1960) I planted Continue reading The night that numbs the leaf→

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more signs of Spring

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Writing Nag — 1 Comment ↓

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want Continue reading more signs of Spring→

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first sign of Spring

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Writing Nag — No Comments ↓

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Self-Esteem for writers and artists

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Writing Nag — 1 Comment ↓
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A Poem About Place

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Writing Nag — No Comments ↓

Read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, At the Fishhouses as an example of writing about place. Great imagery and details.

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Love At First Sight

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Writing Nag — No Comments ↓

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. Alec Waugh How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you – you leave little bits of yourself fluttering Continue reading Love At First Sight→

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What Stimulus?

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Writing Nag — 1 Comment ↓

Today, check out this blog for a fun, interactive poem on stimulus. Add your stimulus style to David’s list poem or consider writing your own list poem. Now get back to work! Lovingly,The Writing Nag

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