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Slice-of-life blog by a freelance writer and improv performer balancing the girlish and geeky parts of her personality.
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Cafe Writing: Seven Things that Make a Library Good
Cafe Writing dot Com From CafeWriting A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. ~Lemony Snicket In improvisation, one of our exercises i...
Thematic Photographic: Laundry
My good blog-buddy Carmi, runs a photo meme called Thematic Photographic. I haven’t participated in forever, but tonight Miss Cleo and Sir Pericles provided the perfect photo opp that was also on-theme. They’ve also helped prove that even...
Cafe Writing: My Mama Done Told Me
In improvisation, one of our exercises is a game called “Seven Things,” in which we go around in a circle giving each other the challenge, “Give me seven things that [whatever].” We are not going to go around in a circle here, but if you’re...
For Fuzzy: A Picture of My Heart
…should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it, leaves not the smallest space unoccu...
Cafe Writing: Ice, Ice, Baby
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. ~Joseph Addison Cafe Writin...
Cafe Writing: Desk Set
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write… ~Pearl S. Buck CafeWriting asks us this month to, “Give me seven things that inhabi...
Indistinguishable from Magic
A 2008 Best of Holidailies Selection. Thanks, Holidailies Reviewers! That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~Charles DeLint The Cafe Writing Holiday Project asks us ...
Something Old
The brooch had been in our family forever, handed down from mother to daughter on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. At first glance, the color made it look like a cameo, but in reality the image was not a single profile, but three sisters: arms li...
Somtimes “Champion” is Spelled Z-o-r-r-o.
Spanish speakers would tell you that the word “zorro” means “fox,” but if you capitalize it, and give it to a dog as his name, sometimes it turns out to mean “champion” instead. It was ten years ago today, on a co...
Scented
A house is never silent in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when [...]...
Feels Like Fall
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. – Samuel Johnson In improvisation, one of our exercises is a game called “Seven Things,” in which we go around in a circle giving each other the...
All the Women in the Family
From her bedroom in the tower, in the castle, on the cliff, the glassy sea seemed motionless; a shining slab of indigo ice beneath the brittle crescent moon. Many an evening was spent communing with the waves, while she sat in the cool, damp sand, a...
