Tag: minnesota
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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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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June 19, 2006 07:57 PM EDT --
I returned from the Minneapolis jubilant but tired. My mind had spun into overtime during this portion of the publication tour for my book The Scent of God. Overwhelmed by publicity efforts, my calendar . . .
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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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July 22, 2006 09:32 PM EDT --
I come before you humbled and admonished.
My son said, "Mom, how could you?"
My husband said, "But Beryl . . ."
Sportsmen said "You didn't!"
Yes. I have sinned . . .
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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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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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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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May 19, 2006 12:44 PM EDT --
I wrote this earlier in May but forgot to publish it here. Perhaps you won't mind another spring awakening.
The bloodroot is blooming on the Superior Hiking Trail in Schroeder. Dutchman's britches . . .
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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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October 13, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
At four o'clock this morning I caught the seven Pleiades sisters dancing. Why I woke with such alacrity I do not know. I didn't need to yawn, nor did I want to snuggle under the covers for a bit . . .
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February 15, 2007 12:44 PM EST --
Since late November I’ve watched a new beach form on our Lake Superior shoreline. It did not exist when we moved here eight years ago. It grows a bit every day. Now it measures around 18 feet . . .
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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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