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Brother’s Demonic Possesion as Inspiration
Today I am going to write about inspiration and my brother who believes he’s being attacked by demons at night and still continues to date the stripper who has a boyfriend by day. Before you get all...
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Funerals
On the day my father had his second heart attack (the first one came only days after enduring my first wedding which had gone decidedly bad) he made me a hamburger on the grill. We sat on the back...
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Delmonico’s Steak, Anyone?
I haven’t eaten breakfast because I’m saving myself for Delmonico’s! 19th Century Delmonico’s in NYC! Today will be so much fun and it all started with a bookmark that fell from a shelf I was cleaning...
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University Intolerance
University is the most intolerant of places, don’t you think? I was once treated as a pariah for an entire semester for liking–no loving–Theodore Roosevelt more than the thin-lipped Woodrow Wilson....
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Blue Valentine
Inspiration for Buck’s sister Thankful Crenshaw (and what a delightful dress!) La Parisienne by Renoir
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Inside the Actors Studio–Writing is an Act
small sampling of rough draft (first one) To write a book you don’t have to wait until you can comfortably say you are a writer when you’re at the hair salon making small talk. (it took me about 7...
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You can have playtime if you finish your snack . . .
Playtime begins with doodling . . . What’s so fun about traditional publishing? Maybe it’s the years of waiting for the right person in New York to like you. Maybe it’s the query writing or the lack...
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A Snowball Fight Gone Very, Very Wrong . . . In Steps the Hero
As I’ve mentioned before, Katherine Weldon was first supposed to be this head-strong, annoyingly modern, independent woman who goes off to “save” the Indians. Didn’t happen–sorry Angelina Jolie...
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The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Inspiration
Young Woman Picking Fruit–Mary Cassatt When my conspiracy theorist brother-in-law came for a long stay a few months back he told us scary 9-11 stories, alien/Roman Catholicism/ ant-Christ predictions...
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When inspiration strikes, get out the fire extinguisher
Exhibit A Strawberries Exhibit B Ramen Noodles Sometimes you don’t have to do any research at all as a writer. You just have to buy Ramen Noodles and strawberries (if you’re like me and plant...
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Robbie Robertson and the weird path of inspiration . . .
My parents watched this concert on HBO over and over again in the late 70′s. My mother always commented on how cute Robbie Robertson was (he’s the guitarist with the dark eyes who looks Indian). Even...
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Mary sighting–1910
Katrina Trask courtesy of Yaddo Foundation I’m pretty sure Mrs. Trask was just thinking about her poetry or the tragic deaths of her four children, but I’ve always wanted a Mary sighting–or a Jesus...
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“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt Did you know that Eleanor was Theodore’s brother Elliot’s daughter? Elliot was a casual drinker...
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Those Were the Days
John French Sloane Sometimes looking back isn’t so fun. People weren’t always better. There was no greatest generation, but the same moral ambiguities and blindness since the beginning of time. A...
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Muddy Days with Frog and Toad
Yes, this is the gate to our goat pen and yes, this is my writing brain on drugs or that’s what it feels like this summer so far. I do write. My boot gets stuck in the mud right at the gate and that...
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There’s no way life’s just random . . .
Isn’t there just something so inspiring about seeing people play together?
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Stupid Pet Tricks (like getting hit by a car)
Nala the Great So yesterday when our farm dog Nala got hit by a car and woke the neighborhood with her confused, sickening cries, the thoughts in my head as I ran up from the barn in my Muck boots and...
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Anne of Green Gables as muse
When my best friend from childhood and I read the books and watched the series we both felt as though LM Montgomery had captured our friendship and personalities exactly! (she was Diana and I was Anne).
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“Men kick friendship about like a football but it doesn’t seem to crack....
Anne Morrow Lindbergh–famous Englewood person. Go Englewood!
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