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You Can See Only As Far As
Are you in any way like me? After reading a good book do you wish you could write like that author? Sometimes when I sit at my desk and look at the blank page in front of me, I really … Continue reading
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Tagged author, blog, book, books, character, creative, desire, dreams, e-book, feelings, fiction, heart, hope, ideas, John Grisham, love, magic, Maya Angelou, notebook, novel, Paulo Coelho, people, post, publisher, read, reader, reading, Simone De Beauvoir, soul, Stephen King, style, theme, thoughts, truth, wish, words, write, writer, writing
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 57,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, blog, book, Canada, daughter, dream, England, feelings, fiction, home, hope, house, internet, joy, kids, library, life, love, magic, memory, new year, news, novel, opera, Paris, peace, people, poetry, Prix Goncourt, reading, religion, rendezvous, Robert Fisk, Simone De Beauvoir, Sydney, United States, William Saroyan, writer, writing
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Staying Young
Teaching. Some people argue that teaching is not only a tiresome profession, but an unrewarding one as well. That the rewards are not that great, and that it is one of the most unappreciated professions. I have to agree to … Continue reading
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Occupy
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. Dream is also just a word until you decide to fight for it with all your enthusiasm and commitment.” Paulo Coelho We all have plans for a … Continue reading
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Tagged children, crisis, Doris Lessing, dream, dreams, economics, education, family, fear, future, game, George Orwell, heroes, house, life, love, mind, Mitch Albom, Montreal, occupy, occupy Wall Street, pain, plan, powerful, protests, reality, relationship, sad, school, security, Simone De Beauvoir, society, struggle, Toronto, unemployment, United States, Wall Street, work
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State of Unemployment
“It’s terrible to have one’s future obstructed, and to have always to resort to makeshift solutions.” Simone De Beauvoir I watch with great sadness the protest against unemployment on Wall Street, and the long lineup in front of employment offices … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, Canada, cars, cities, color, dark, day, desire, drive, employment, fear, feeling, future, Jean Paul Sartre, job, jobs, leaves, life, live, morning, protest, protests, reality, religion, sad, Simone De Beauvoir, society, space, sun, sweet, time, tree, truth, unemployment, unhappy, United States, Wall Street, work, world
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The Strangeness Of Time
Right after I posted my blog article ‘As I Look Back’, I came across one of Hemingway’s quotes in his biography by Carlos Baker that I hadn’t noticed before. I’ve read this book several times since September 1980, when I … Continue reading
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It’s Terrible
“It’s terrible the way one loses things as one grows older.” wrote Simone De Beauvoir. What do you do when something, some phase or chapter in your life has come to its end? You feel it, you know it, and … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, Amazon, Amazon UK, author, books, change, childhood, children, cooking, death, development, drama, e-book, Ernest Hemingway, experience, fall, family, friendship, future, heart, library, life, love, news, old, people, publisher, rain, reader, reading, relationships, sad, Simone De Beauvoir, spring, sunrise, sunset, sunshine, winter, writer
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This Is Where It All Began
You might have read in my previous post that 1986 is a year of great significance to me. In the summer of that year my husband and I traveled to Rome, Venice and Paris. It was the most unforgettable trip … Continue reading
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