She Who Liberates
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With the twenty-one praises of Tara, you discover your own fearless
compassion. Lama Döndrup Drölma introduces this timeless practice.
The post She Who L...
Featured Artist Donna Stevens
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Featured artist Donna Stevens shares a collection of pastel paintings that
invite the viewer to reconnect with nature.
The post Featured Artist Donna Ste...
Ungewissheiten
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Jugendbuch | Judith Burger: Nachrichten aus dem Inneren der Katze Sylvie
ist ihren Nebenjob im Museum los. Vor dem Abi wollte sich die 17jährige
dort ein b...
3 Trusted Tips for an UnLonely 2026
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Try these simple ideas for better connection with yourself and others We’re
only a few weeks into the new year, and the world already feels more
complica...
An Offering Of Love
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In a year of miserable downers, here’s something to rejoice over. So many
stories. So many writers sharing the shards of their lives. Slivers that
bled. Sc...
this blog continues... at blueprint21.de
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I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog
page.
If you browse to:
*blueprint21.de/blog*
you arrive at a nicely sorte...
The Podcast returns!
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*It's here! After a long hiatus, our popular monthly podcast - featuring
your regular dose of brilliant books and fierce feminism - is back,
complete wit...
Chips
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Joining Tom at Signs2
Wordless Wednesday Wordless
December 2025 -
*Adding to my Chips collection!*
Hanoi Vietnam
Hotel
Brazil BBQ Pork Rib Texa...
Thank you
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It’s been a while since I've posted anything anywhere, but I didn't want to
let any more time go by without thanking everyone for all your kind
messages ...
Los Angeles' Tito's Tacos adds a menu item
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For only the third time in its 70-year history, Tito's Tacos has added an
item to its legendary menu: a cheese quesadilla.
Tito's is a love-it-or-leave-...
On “Rum Punch” by Elmore Leonard *****
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The basis for Tarantino's *Jackie Brown*, this novel about Jackie follows
the plot line at points fairly closely. It works better as a novel, I
think, th...
The Bridges by Tarjei Vesaas
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The Bridges by Tarjei Vesass Norweigan fiction Original title – Bruene
Translator – Elizabeth Rokkan Source – Personal copy I said in my look back
at las...
Pandora
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Pandora begins with a pangolin clinging tightly to the right leg of a woman
wearing a single high heel “to make up for the imbalance caused by the
creature...
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
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What people will do for a taste of fame ~ Sheila When science-minded Lyla
reluctantly agrees to take part in a new reality show, One Perfect Couple,
she do...
Die Friedhofskapelle St. Michael in Weil der Stadt
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Die *Friedhofskkapelle St. Michael* gehört zu den zahlreichen Kirchen,
ehemaligen Klöstern und Kapellen in *Weil der Stadt*.
Die Friedhofskapelle gehört ...
The intimate outside
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When this post from Max Cairnduff appeared I had been reading Heidegger's
lectures on Hölderlin's poetry and books and essays studying Heidegger's
le...
The Last Thing He Told Me
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Finished January 4
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
This standalone suspense novel was recommended to me at the library when I
asked about a book to...
Are you Bowing to An Empty Throne?
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Don’t turn your back on the monarch. Ever. If you need to leave the room,
shuffle away backward. Don’t sit in the monarch’s presence. Don’t …
The post Ar...
Book of the month: Raharimanana
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In the midst of some pretty gloomy headlines over the last month or so,
online African literature magazine Brittle Paper brought heartening news.
Its 100 N...
Review: WINTER DEAD, Lynne McEwan
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This edition read as an e-book on Libby, provided by my local library
- Publisher : Canelo Crime, Publication date : November 6, 202...
Rezept: Kekse ohne Zucker (Nur 2 Zutaten!)
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Kekse ohne Zucker backen, die noch dazu ohne großen Aufwand und mit nur 2
Zutaten zubereitet sind? Das klingt vielleicht erstmal unmöglich, erwartet
dich a...
Photographing the Aurora in My Style
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For longest time one item that has been on my photographic bucket list was
to photograph in Aurora from Venus Bay. It’s been frustrating. I’ve managed
to...
Best of 2025!
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I know, everyone else published their best of posts ages ago. What can I
say? It’s fashionable to be late. 2025 was a great reading year for me.
I’ve winno...
Moving day, and a final goodbye to Typepad
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Dear Readers, This is my final post on this platform, after more than 20
years. I've been unable to export the images along with the writing, though
I have...
Curtis Smith Interviews Linda Romanowski
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Curtis Smith: Congratulations on Final Touchstones—and on the nice press
and Eric Hoffer nod it’s received. I’m always interested in a first book’s
journey...
‘Engine Empire’ by Cathy Park Hong
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The ultimate futility of human endeavor is a pleasure in Engine Empire, a
new triptych of poems by Cathy Park Hong. She begins in the boomtowns of
the old ...
The Watchlist: January 2025
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From Columbia University Press | Elephant Herd by Zhang Guixing, translated
from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas | Fiction | 240 pages | ISBN 9780231211697
|...
The Dolphin in the Gowanus
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The Dolphin in the Gowanus is a living record of a neighborhood that has
been erased — where a dolphin once really did stray into the canal. If
you’d like ...
Easy Cast Iron Cleaning: Maintain Your Skillet
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Cast iron cookware is a staple in my kitchen, and if you're like me, you
treasure these pieces for their durability and versatility. But let's face
it, c...
Hollywood will let striking writers "lose houses"
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The negotiating body representing Hollywood studios and streamers against
striking writers let slip their strategy. They will refuse talks until
October ...
FUEL anthology publication day!
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It's publication day for the anthology I edited, FUEL: 75 prizewinning
flash fictions by authors around the globe raising funds to fight
#FuelPoverty!...
Farewell, and Thank You.
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To our beloved community: Today marks the end of the adventure that has
been Lantern Review. Getting to work on the magazine, the blog, our
newsletter—all ...
About Sexy and Smart Date Hungarian Women
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They are not easy – so they don’t want their potential partners to see them
as easy-to-get. Being with a Hungarian girl is being with a lady who can
pote...
It’s Okay Not to Know
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Writing short fiction is an exercise in not knowing. When I begin any
story, I know very little about what will emerge onto the page. I don’t
know where my...
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
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When I moved to Saudi Arabia in 2007, sight unseen, I knew my life would be
changed forever. But what I never expected was to completely and utterly
fal...
(31/31) Another March SOLSC Complete!
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31 of 31 - SOLSC 2022
We made it!
For those of you who have completed your first SOLSC, congratulations and
welcome to the community. You weren't quite ...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
RIGHTS--AND WRONGS
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Dear Harry,
I have written to you before of my distress about the political and social
culture of my adoptive country. Imagine, now, a father buying his...
The best pick-up lines for a one-night stand
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It is not easy for anyone looking for a one-night stand or sex meeting.
First of all, you have to get in touch with strangers. This can only
succeed throug...
Review: D (A Tale of Two Worlds)
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Dhikilo is a young orphan from Somaliland (not to be confused with Somalia,
which everyone she meets does) growing up in a very English home in a very
En...
For the Win v.2 is Coming Soon!
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Posted in Uncategorized
Dan Hunter and I are excited to announce that a revised and updated edition
of For the Win, our best-selling gamification guide, w...
PLANET AT THE CROSSROADS
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On Dec. 6, this may become one of the most photographed crosswalks on
Earth. If Madrid’s Sep. 27 climate strike is anything to go by, we can
expect thousan...
The Truth or Something Like It
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by Tommy Vollman
I met Joe Nuxhall a few weeks after my fifteenth birthday. His
hands were gnarled, and he spoke as though his mouth was half fu...
gods and monsters
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*After Years*
Today, from a distance, I saw you
walking away, and without a sound
the glittering face of a glacier
slid into the sea. An ancient oak
fell in...
'Gifts for the Dead' by Joan Schweighardt
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[image: gifts for dead schweighardt]Sometimes our best is not good enough.
We make mistakes. The most painful ones are those that harm a loved one.
Stres...
The Women’s Prize Longlist 2019
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What better excuse to blow the cobwebs off this blog than with the 2019
longlist announcement, of what is probably my very favourite prizes, the
Women’s Pr...
‘Tis Always the Season for Shortbread Cookies
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In my family, Christmas just isn’t Christmas without shortbread cookies.
Both my parents loved cooking and baking, but my father and I usually made
the sho...
Dead Organic Matter
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You’re told to own your words. But if this was written in first person, how
would you ever be held accountable? mockingbird song picking cuticles until
the...
New Ways of Seeing
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Peeling back the layers on something very old and rendering a very large
virtual object in the middle of your living room might, at first, feel like
activi...
WHEN WE FELL IN LOVE – LIAM LOWTH
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I fall in love, often ridiculously. Sometimes, these feelings change as
quickly as the Queensland sun turning toes in morning warmth to a red raw
burn. Som...
Book Fair Post Mortem
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Easing back into blogging, I thought I'd do a nice easy What Katy Did in
Frankfurt post. Except of course nothing is easy these days, so it'll be a
bit of ...
Our son, Ali Julian
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So much has happened since I posted last! Our biggest news is that we had a
son on April 9, 2018, after five long years. Below are some of my favorite
pict...
Berlin’s Zig Zag Cycle Path
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Germans have a reputation for being efficient and serious but the zig zag
cycle path that appeared on a street in Berlin Zehlendorf suggests that the
ste...
Year in Review 2017
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If we can have Christmas in July, we can also have a year-end wrap-up in
July, right? Let’s not think about the state of my to-do list; let’s look
at some ...
Murder at the Marina: A Guest Post & Blog Fiesta!
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Ellen Jacobson, of The Cynical Sailor & His Salty Sidekick fame, has just
released the first of a cozy mystery series that revolves, much like
Ellen's ...
Feminism and the Institutions of Intimacy
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Yesterday Corey Robin wrote a piece in the Chronicle of Higher
Education called “The Erotic Professor,” and in it he positively mentions a
piece of mine ca...
Farewell Letter from the Editors
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Five years ago, we launched a magazine for all the curious, smart, and bold
women and nonbinary writers and readers out […]
Hulk’s Favorite Movies of 2017
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And now… The top-ten-ish or whatever list!!! Just in time for me to yell at
the Oscars before they go up. Films I didn’t see: T2, Faces Places, The
Lost Ci...
Tomes, Billy Collins
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It’s been a rough week month, and I haven’t had time to read a new book, or
do much of anything that wasn’t absolutely essential, but I think January
is ov...
For the days when you wonder if you matter at all
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There were two years in South Africa that were both the worst and most
wonderful of my life. It made it easy to stay home on Sundays and get lost
in a book...
this blog continues... at blueprint21.de
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I finally put a new version of my website together, it also includes a blog
page.
If you browse to:
*blueprint21.de/blog*
you arrive at a nicely sorte...
Wordless Wednesday: Nama-stay
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Nama-stay in bed. Red Dog, when I told him to have a shower. Excited much.
Naaah ??? #dogsofinstagram #justred #reddog #mutts #muttsofinstagram
#petsofinst...
Pieces
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(https://cdn.emgn.com/wp-content/ Mexico-Street-Art) Pieces. Pieces.
Pieces of eight, pieces of nine, pieces of china lying scattered on the
floor, left ...
Dreadlocks and Rastafari
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The notion of dreadlocks giving the wearer superhuman powers is not unique
to the Bible’s story. Many cultures held that life energy (life force, Ki,
prana...
Punctuation & my pig tale
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The New York Times isn't alone in making me ill over its colon usage. But I
adore the Times and read it faithfully, so I’m daily aggrieved. The usage I
d...
Studio time
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Hello friends, I can hardly believe that summer’s (almost) over. It was
everything summer’s supposed to be: Art and sun and wine and friends. Late
evenings...
There is a crack in everything
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I believe we don’t live in our lives; we live in the stories we tell about
our lives. What happened is far less significant than how we interpret what
it m...
Book Review: Olio
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Olio examines the way that we experience stories that become integral parts
of our consciousness—those intimately bound in the social fabric with which
we ...
It’s Okay, I Love You
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The past nine months, my life has become unrecognizable. When I say this
out loud, it means who I am is unrecognizable. But I now see myself for the
first ...
"Nothing from you in a hell of a while."
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“Nothing from you in a hell of a while.”
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*Ernest Hemingway, from “a letter to WALDO PEIRCE, Sheridan, c. 23 August
1928,” Selected Letters 1917-1961 (...
Epic Fail
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So often we hear the comeback story after the comeback has been made. The
hard times are glossed over and...BAM...straight to the success portion we
go (cu...
Catching up with me
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I missed my book club meeting tonight. It’s nice to feel some semblance of
normalcy to my life, and that includes getting out once in a while and
socializi...
Ted Talks on Writing
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*Shonda Rhimes - *Saying Yes to Everything
*JK Rowling - *The fringe benefits of failure
*Elizabeth Gilbert*
Success Failure and the drive to keep ...
Winter 2016 Issue Launched
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Really need to check in with this blog more! After spreading the news of
the new issue's launch yesterday, I forgot to post it here.
Melusine 8.1
Yes, t...
Happiness
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Author: Andrés Neuman Collection: The Things We Don't Do My name is Marcos.
I have always wanted to be Cristóbal. I don't mean I want to be be called
Crist...
BookEnds Has Moved
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I'm thrilled to announce that BookEnds has set up a new home and a new
look. From this moment forward you can find BookEnds at
www.bookendsliterary.com
He...
The Girl In The Spider's Web: David Lagercrantz
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I think even a million dollars would not persuade me to be in David
Lagercrantz's shoes. It takes guts to write. It takes even more guts to
write a sequ...
VLAD DRACUL by CADY VISHNIAC
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The man I once thought of as my true love still lives in Baltimore. He is
seven years or so my senior, which when we dated made him seem painfully
cool, an...
Interview with Rami Shamir
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Today I'm posting Part One of my interview with *Rami Shamir*, in the last
29 hours of a Kickstarter campaign for his novel TRAIN TO POKIPSE. This
expl...
100 Days of Creative Courage
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*100 Days of Creative Courage is a creative online course that will
celebrate the final 100 days of 2015!*
Over the past 5 years, I've collected over *1...
It’s Greek To Me
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I have always thought the pictures of Greece were incredibly beautiful, and
I will say what I saw of Greece was picture perfect. The island of
Santorini is...
The Last Yossarian Poetry Challange
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Because today is the final day of my poem-a-day challenge using Yossarian
to generate ideas, I thought I'd make my search term 'end'. Each day this
week, ...
Fusion Studio 10% off summer sale!
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It’s May, it’s nearly summer so I figured it’s time for a pre-summer sale.
Yes? OK From 1 to 15 May I’m offering 10% off the following treatments and
produ...
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So many things have happened in the last, oh, nearly-a-year. I went quiet.
I called it hibernation. I knit a lot, learned to spin, learned to dye
yar...
New Blog!
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To all of you who have followed me on my blogging journey, and to any new
followers, I created a new blog site on my new website.
Baer Books Press - Blog
...
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(2007-2011) was a blog composed by myself, artist Yuko Nagai, documenting
the making-of process, from their conception to completion, of two silk
dresses w...
• are we done here? •
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It it time to tweet the blog fantastic? To put an end to halfassedmama? I
am addicted to the catch-and-release of Facebook. But how best to preserve
my tho...
Officially moving blog to Bookedinchico.com Today
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I am moving my blog to Bookedinchico.com today. Don't forget to refollow
the new blog. This will be redirected to the new blog tonight.
Today is my 3 Ye...
New Blog!
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Hi folks! I'm sure you've noticed that this blog has been dormant for
quite a while. I've started blogging again. It's not a book blog. More
like a refl...
I’m back!
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So you may or may not have noticed my complete disappearing act. Many
months ago I disappeared from book blogging, not because of lack of
interest but lack...
Animals in the City: issue summary
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by David Cazden and Sherry Chandler Dave: One afternoon I was driving in
downtown Lexington and saw a raccoon running along the sidewalk. Actually
it was l...
Follow the Yellow is on the move!
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After almost five years of blogging here, it's time to move on to pastures
new!
Follow the Yellow has now moved on to *www.followtheyellow.co.uk*
I wo...
Pub Rants Has Moved!!
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STATUS: You'll have to check out the new location to see how I'm feeling.
*grin*
What’s playing on the XM or iPod right now? At the time I wrote that blog...
Tools of Change 2013: What Excites Me Right Now
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In about two weeks, I, along with a couple thousand or so of my closest
friends, will be attending the 2013 Tools of Change for Publishing
conference in ...
Man Asian Awards
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Man Asian Official Site
2012 Winner to be announced March 14, 2013
2012 Shortlist announced Jan.9, 2013:
Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooq...
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Originally posted on The Unemployed Philosopher's Blog:
The solitary drifter is a character that’s romanticized in American
literature and film. Most Wester...
New Blog
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Hello Everyone! This is a friendly reminder that I have moved my blog to
www.adventuresinneverneverland.com. The feed is
https://feeds.feedburner.com/Advent...
100/100 For dragon eggs?
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Shall we open the door? What story, the old or the new?
We have lived so long and so well
In our green fable
Shall we open the doors?
[from ‘Uranium 2’...
Letter from the Editor - Hiatus
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*Letter from The Editor*
The June 2012 issue will be the last Short Review issue for a little while,
the journal will be on hiatus for at least a few month...
Blog Migration
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You may have noticed that I haven't been posting much lately. That's partly
because I've been swamped and partly because I've been developing a new
integ...
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Oh, it's been a while.
A new year, and many changes, a few of which I'm not quite ready to say out
loud yet. Suffice it to say that we've been back on the i...
A new home for our small stone posts
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To keep things simple, we will be blogging about *small stones* at our main
site, Writing Our Way Home, from this day forth.
Do hop over there to find out...
62: lecia phinney
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lecia phinney photographer Lecia Phinney lives by the ocean with her
husband and two boys in beautiful Seattle. She take pictures, writes,
cooks, explores ...
