Tag: author showcase
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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July 16, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
Some people have a fear of public places, others fear public speaking, while yet others fear speaking on the phone. I fear none of those things. What I fear is getting the mail.
My fears . . .
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January 27, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
"What is it you REALLY believe?" asked a friend in her weekly email "On the Waterline."
She posted the question two days ago and I am still pondering the thought. What . . .
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December 12, 2007 01:18 PM EST --
For centuries stuffed toy animals have been hugged, kissed and played with. They’ve been fed pabulum and sticky candies, been dressed and undressed, tucked into bed and tossed into corners. They’ve . . .
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July 02, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
Jacqueline loved her high place a top the dune. She was the only one who climbed up here, who had the whole expanse of the sea and the beach at which to gaze, the magnificent old home in the distance . . .
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January 17, 2009 07:09 PM EST --
We left Rome for Naples on my birthday, October 10, 2008. This was not a wholly good idea, unless one thrives on travel tension. The day started off innocently enough when we took a taxi to the Termini . . .
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July 19, 2007 01:41 PM EDT --
Actually, I almost leapt the wall but I didn't. If I'd pictured a cozy retreat where I didn't have to talk and could just moon around being thoughtful I was sadly but wondrously mistaken. This . . .
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July 26, 2007 07:39 AM EDT --
July 2, 2008 I am leaving tomorrow to repeat this event -- 10 days of silence. I will miss my fellow Gatherers and will probably wonder what you are up to. If you are wondering what I'm . . .
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September 19, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
Yesterday was the 6th anniversary of the death of my 24-year-old daughter, Francesca. I am reposting an article I originally published on Gather December 2005
My Runaway Girl
I no longer . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
For months I counted down the days until Ann Patchett's newest book Run arrived in my mailbox. When it arrived I immediately set aside what I was doing and lost myself in the joy of her story-telling. . . .
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November 19, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
When my hubby Bill surprised me with tickets to Italy to celebrate our 12 wedding anniversary and suggested that I plan the trip as I “knew Italy,” I thought “Oh my! Did I still “know” Italy 30 years . . .
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December 16, 2008 10:38 PM EST --
Normally, while trudging through the deep sand along Lake Worth’s beach, we encounter lots of man-made debris cast up on shore by Atlantic’s waves along with slimy seaweed, tortured driftwood, . . .
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February 27, 2009 03:39 PM EST --
As if she'd been awaiting the exact moment of our arrival on the patio for breakfast the next morning, Rita –Titty’s mother (of La Maison de Titty ), hurried out with tiny éclairs with Nutella . . .
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April 15, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
Travel, Grieving, the Writing Life, Book Reviews, Fictions, Random Musings, all my posts are here for your convenience, especially when the pull-down menus don't work. Please let me know if a link doesn't . . .
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July 25, 2007 07:03 AM EDT --
In December 1999, I fly to Buenos Aires to meet my husband Bill who is working in South America. I beat him there by a whole day and arrive to find the streets of the city blockaded . . .
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August 29, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
I live next to Lake Superior, the second largest fresh water lake in the world. Only Lake Baikal in Russia surpasses her -- not in size because Superior is 19,000 sq. miles larger, but in . . .
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October 24, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
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-- or the Back Story behind becoming an author
My favorite past time as a child was sitting under the ping pong table over which I'd draped a cloth tent, reading. As a teen . . .
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May 07, 2008 08:26 PM EDT --
The Sentinel -- an average giant
When we set off earlier this week for the Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks we knew only what the map told us: that they lay several hundred miles . . .
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July 01, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
From April 29 through May 4, I was in New York for the PEN World Writers Fesitval "Public Lives/Private Lives."
First, I should probably tell you what PEN is and how I found myself at this . . .
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August 03, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
Terminado. Finito. Finished! The final stop on my eleven week book blog tour. Were some of you wondering just how long this book blog tour would continue? Just how much more could you learn about a book . . .
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September 29, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
The day the calendar announced fall’s arrival – a pounding rain doused the North Shore. The darkened, cloud-menacing sky that had hovered over the northland for two days sent waters gushing . . .
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