Tag: random musings
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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June 25, 2008 02:53 PM EDT --
This is 10 minute fiction based on Wednesday Writing Essential's prompt photo taken by Kathryn Esplin-Oleski. I've never visited Montreal and never had this experience but I do like to travel . . .
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December 15, 2005 08:17 AM EST --
I wrote this for Francesca when she was nineteen, never dreaming that, one day, I'd be using it to pay tribute at her funeral.
--Beryl Singleton Bissell
This evening, I watch you force the zipper . . .
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July 12, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Seems like I barely get back from one event when off I go to another. I returned from San Francisco and a few days later Bill and I headed off for a Monastic Institute held at Saint John's Abbey. . . .
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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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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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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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November 29, 2005 01:20 PM EST --
Ellie, our fat cat, sits patiently in the kitchen next to her empty bowl. She demolished four ounces of canned cat food earlier this morning. She wonders why her bowl is empty.
She looks at us, then down . . .
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June 28, 2007 11:22 PM EDT --
I’m a terrible planner. Organizing events has never been a strong point. When my children were little, even their simple birthday parties with neighborhood playmates flummoxed me. Should we play . . .
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May 17, 2006 03:24 PM EDT --
In my last post, I was in Boston, heading back from a great visit at the Gather.com headquarters to the Inn at Harvard to prepare for my reading that night at the Harvard Coop.
Almost 50 years ago, . . .
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June 06, 2006 06:50 PM EDT --
I have received a number of messages from Gatherers wondering how best to get published and find agents and have attempted to answer each request as thoroughly as possible.
Today I received my free monthly . . .
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June 08, 2006 11:00 AM EDT --
The other day, I wrote a very brief piece on helpful sites for writers that have proved invaluable resources for me. Today, I received a notice from Poynter , one of the sites I recommended, about another . . .
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June 10, 2006 02:15 PM EDT --
Today is one of those totally blow-your-mind beautiful days on the North Shore – the sky blue, blue without a cloud, the sun's rays striking Lake Superior with such force that the light seems . . .
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September 01, 2006 05:41 PM EDT --
We've been blessed with kind of weather that convinces tourists that there is no more beautiful place on earth than Lake Superior's North Shore. Brilliant warm days filled with cooling breezes . . .
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October 10, 2006 04:24 PM EDT --
Did you know that you can turn your Gather points into gift certificates to send others? While inquiring how I could help send our beloved Gather friend Christopher Bell and his seeing eye dog on . . .
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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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May 05, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
In my last post, I mentioned how helpful it can be to do local readings and interviews first -- before you go on tour with your book.
While I've been doing these local readings and . . .
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May 08, 2006 05:06 PM EDT --
In my last post I was developing " warped hand and eye syndrome" as I sent hundreds of postcards to people living in or near the places I will be reading and signing my book, The Scent of God . . .
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