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- December 16th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: Berkeley type
- December 15th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Berkeley type
There’s a man with thick silver hair who will save me. I’ll run into him at Good Vibrations or while thumping melons at the Berkeley Bowl. Eyes quizzical, brow scrunched, I'll ask his advi…
- December 11th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: A virulent strain of grief
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
A virulent strain of grief
I’ve been reading a lot about death lately, death and long hospitalizations and the kind of hope that people with sick children cling to, a stretched kind of hope that comes with chemotherapy an…
- December 8th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Golden
I finally stopped running.The routine felt oppressive and there was all that huffing and puffing. Everything went by so fast, the bungalows of Berkeley a blur, the friendly cats passed in a leap, the…
- December 2nd, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Honestly?
Before I get all honest with you, I have some acknowledging to do. I've been neglectful. For well over a year, various kind bloggers have passed on awards and I haven't done a thing about it.The most…
- November 30th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: Beautiful simplicity
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Beautiful simplicity
When you go to the ballet, sitting up in those nosebleed seats, don’t look up at the ceiling. You might find yourself dizzy with the height, lightheaded on the knowledge of the distance between…
- November 26th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
I can walk under ladders
I finished the first draft. My husband defended his dissertation.I am typing in a sun-filled room, buoyed by three sleeping, contented kitties.The laptop has been around almost six years and is going…
- November 24th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Chiaroscuro
Part I: The visitLook. I’m all out of words. They started drifting away from me this morning, when I woke up with the boy at six a.m. As the day continued – conversation with the visitors…
- November 20th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: 8:37, Saturday morning
- November 19th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
8:37, Saturday morning
Tom cups his hands around the egg, his square palms and stubby fingers keeping it safe. He finds eggs fascinating, the weight they hold when they are fresh, uncooked, the way hard-boiling changes thei…
- November 16th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
The noises of destruction
There was an oak tree just outside the back window. Brown leaves clung to it through the winter, unwilling to sever their ties until they were forced out by new growth. Some nights, when I was tired o…
- November 15th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: Away from here
- November 14th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Away from here
We kept on digging that night, pushed through soil rich and dark, encountered earthworms as long as Joe’s middle finger. He had a trowel and I had a pick-axe, but most of the time we used our ha…
- November 11th, 2009
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- November 10th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Lure
I flicked a career away as easily as I tossed down shots of vodka. The brown shoes and heavy overcoat, the thick wool suit in regulation blue, opaque hosiery that marked red rails around my waist, tha…
- November 5th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
And five days later cold
It started with Maggie May's post on how one could possibly cope with losing a child. Or maybe it started before then, in my first grief at nine over the death of my grandmother, the grief that morphe…
- October 30th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: Shoot him 'fore he run now
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Shoot him \'fore he run now
J. had a freezer full of goose breasts riddled with shot. His family owned property on Broad Creek with a duck blind right against the water, where the menfolk, clad in camouflage, would sit on brisk…
- October 28th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Gorilla story
The house teeters above you in a nimbus of red light. A pillar of cracked, uneven steps capped by burning jack-o-lanterns ends at the front door, where cackles and howls animate the night air. “…
- October 25th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: Living proof at my fingertips
- October 24th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Living proof at my fingertips
It was one of those conversations that I'm tired of having, but I couldn't seem to stop myself.Mr. Trinkle and I were standing against the wall at the Fox Theater in Oakland, this over-the-top restore…
- October 22nd, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: The low spark of a high-heeled boy
- October 21st, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
The low spark of a high-heeled boy
Here was the scene: my four-year-old son wearing a pair of old high heels, a canary-yellow birthday party hat on his head, grasping a sword in either hand. It was another one of his many guises, a fu…
- October 17th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Faking it*
Surely there are hidden meanings everywhere, waiting to be uncovered. This was my hypothesis when I started my latest self-improvement project “Barbara’s Weekly Epiphany.” All I had…
- October 12th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: Prognostication
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Prognostication
In my dreams, the dead are silent. I’ve never had a good conversation with a single one of them, just offer my apologies, bake the bread, pour the coffee. What is the guilt about? The dead no lo…
- October 10th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Lordy, lordy
Guess how old I am today? Just add one to this number.I'm fine with it. Really. Image: Me in 1970 at Hollywood Beach.
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jennasee is celebrating her birthday today!
- October 4th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: Foundation
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jennasee has updated her friends list.
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jennasee has posted a new blog review on: earth to holly
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jennasee has added earth to holly to her favorite blogs.
earth to holly
A child of the 60s wonders 'where have all the flowers gone?' and ponders the earth and its beauty, recycling and green issues, dogs, cycling and good food and recipes. Includes plenty of photography, albeit amateur. Some sarcasm may surface but pea - October 3rd, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Foundation
The story was that he and Willard were drunk when they poured the foundation. It was a hot day, unusual for May, and the sky was cloud-veiled, the sun nothing but a glowing round cloaked in grey. The…
- September 28th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: The bitter scent of coming winter
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
- September 22nd, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
New blood
One theory is that Nick suffers from existential angst, though I personally think he misses the stalking and the killing. He got out by mistake a few weeks ago, pushed his way through an unlatched bac…
- September 12th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
Nefarious times I live in
Forgive me, fellow bloggers, for I have sinned. I did not intend to leave this blog for almost a month while I frittered away five weeks with my son. My mother visited for ten days and I did not blog.…
- August 14th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new entry on: Writing to Survive
- August 10th, 2009
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jennasee has posted a new broadcast: Home is where the guest blogger post is, or how I was coaxed
