Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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I’ve had a manuscript sitting in a folder for a while, a long while. Sometimes a writer knows a problem exists in the story, but can’t quite identify it. Every now and then I’d get the manuscript out and dip into various chapters seeking clues. Then one day last summer, it came to me. I’d…
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I think of the Canadian artists known as the Group of Seven in the same way I think of the Hudson River School, the artists who romanticized the stunning iconic landscapes of the United States in the 19th Century. Think Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole. The Group of Seven were also landscape painters, but working…
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Nobody likes to be told “no.” It’s a full stop. It’s forbidden territory. It blocks momentum. Ever since I was a toddler, I have rebelled against it. On the other hand, sometimes getting to “yes,” means wandering through a universe of “no.” I let my weight creep up over November and December. Since it took…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 