Work in Progress

by Helen on July 29, 2010 · 9 comments

in Writerly Words

Sorry for all the dust around here.  I’m remodeling this page, and the movers have taken everything to storage.

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www.RaveWords.com

by Helen on May 3, 2010 · 0 comments

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I’m working on a new blog for writers.   I promise:  Crisp writing.  Farm-fresh information.  A nerd’s focus.  Coming soon to an internet near you: 

www.RaveWords.com

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Fool Me Once

April 13, 2010

  I love exploring the outdoors, but my idea of roughing it has changed over the years.  Hiking into a wilderness area with my every creature comfort strapped to my back suited me for many years,.  But not now. Longer getaways are more difficult to arrange, so we weekend camp.  A lake here.  A river [...]

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On My Way Out

March 30, 2010

My husband decided to tackle a significant home improvement project.  After seven years with the same used-to-be-beige carpet that came with our new home, he is installing tile.  That news in itself won’t shake the earth, but I don’t have to help. At all.  Between us, I’m the only one with any tiling credits,  having [...]

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Brief Encounters with a Reading Club

March 10, 2010

I’m reading Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters with Ché Guevara with some locals through D Magazine’s Reading Room. I haven’t read on-assignment since college.  Much better than my textbook on quantitative methods.

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Umpteen Possibilities

February 24, 2010

My kid is on to me. I’ve been barking in his ear for 13 years now, and it seems he’s figured out that I don’t really ever bite. I hate this. Coercion used to be much simpler. Now I have to get cooperation. What rot. I remember a fit he pitched in a grocery store [...]

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Whack Job

February 2, 2010

I’ve decided not to let a burrowing rodent determine my attitude this month.  The winter drags sufficiently without the added weight of an obese groundhog.  The glow of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and three family birthdays are a shimmering memory.  January is the settling month.  The month for regrouping, reconfiguring, and resolving. Then comes February.  Colder. Gloomier. [...]

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Round Up

January 19, 2010

We’re still a tad enamored with our new dog, Maela.  She’s a herder by blood, and we find her using this skill to corral her squeaky hedge hog and sheep into a compliant pile on the floor.  A snout poke into any member of her collection provides an auditory diversion and an inordinate amount of [...]

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Dogmalian

January 13, 2010

Every pet I’ve had as an adult came to me as a sort of flea-bitten windfall.  I’ve never actually sought a pet in the going-shopping sense.  This was virgin sod.  Our local shelter was my first choice.  I have no breed prejudices.  Mutts make perfectly acceptable canine companions.  I don’t get people that must have [...]

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Pets Rock

January 7, 2010

So it’s been over a year since I put down my beloved Fattus Cattus, Hayward.  Before the seizures on her final day, she spent most of 2008 on semi-daily doses of insulin.  Not fun for her.  Not fun for me.  Not fun when she bit me to tell me that part of her bottom was [...]

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