Tag: minnesota
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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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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June 15, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
I wrote this article specifically for a new group called Minnesota Readers but am posting it to everyone at Gather as I'm currently engaged in a publicity tour for my new book, The Scent of God. . . .
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March 03, 2007 11:44 AM EST --
I wrote the below during the midst of a blizzard and then lost my connection for two days. I am finally able to repost with photos.
I am in total awe. We have got massive seas . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
If you've been reading my posts for a while, you'll know that I've been awaiting a "writer's dream." No. It's not making the NY Times best seller list. This dream concerns . . .
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May 12, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
Friday, May 11: The second stop on my book tour takes us to beloved Gather blogger Kathryn Esplin Oleski. I first met Kathryn on Gather in its very early days when there were only several hundred of us . . .
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April 19, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of The Scent of God, I am offering a free signed copy to each of 10 lucky winners. All you have to do is share your feelings about the book jacket after . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:11 PM EDT --
This summer, as one week wended toward the next with no sign of rain, many of us believed we'd have little fall color. The trees were too stressed we thought. And, when the color seemed to peak around . . .
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March 22, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
I heard about Professor Philip De Wolfe before I met him. The year was 1987 and what I heard was to change the direction my life would take from then on. I have Gloria to thank.
Gloria and I . . .
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December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST --
I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . .
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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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May 28, 2007 08:32 PM EDT --
The Liar’s Diary: A Book Review
Gather keeps getting better. I keep bumping into fine writers that I hadn’t encountered before and a growing number of outstanding authors. Often these . . .
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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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March 05, 2007 12:28 PM EST --
Just couldn't resist posting a few more photos of the incredible ice mountains formed last Thursday and Friday due to the blizzard on Lake Superior's North Shore. My hubby, Bill Christ, was in . . .
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September 18, 2006 04:40 PM EDT --
On September 18, five years ago, I prepared my daughter Francesca's room. I put fresh sheets on the bed and cleaned her bureau drawers of the paraphanalia that had accumulated . . .
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April 06, 2007 10:52 AM EDT --
As I watch our beloved old dog Shelby find it more difficult to rise from the floor, when she refuses to eat or suffers interminable bouts of diarrhea I know that at some point we shall have to say goodbye. . . .
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July 04, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
"Get thee to a monastery!" -- does anyone know the actual source of this quote? -- there are thousands of articles with that quotation but none I can find that attribute the quote to its . . .
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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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May 31, 2006 07:24 AM EDT --
The Minneapolis leg of the publication tour for my book, The Scent of God, went swimmingly. The interview with Pat Miles and Susie Jones on WCCO so pleased my publicist at Counterpoint in New . . .
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