Materfamilias Writes

Still Reading. . . Memoirs and Mysteries and a Historical Novel and . . .

Still Reading. . . Memoirs and Mysteries and a Historical Novel and . . .

Not ready to give up on this blog completely, yet, but for the time being keeping up two blogs is unrealistic if I’m to honour my commitment to my personal writing project.  I hope I’ll…

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Flitting with the Finches — Back to My Reading Blog with a Book About Birds

Flitting with the Finches — Back to My Reading Blog with a Book About Birds

Yes, I have trouble keeping this blog going — I’d say that it’s an example of a lifelong trend to,  as I’ve often been warned from adolescence onward, “spread myself too thin.” But I’m going…

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Friday’s Five

Friday’s Five

A very quick Friday Five, accompanied by Gratuitous Photos taken on a Sunny Spring Run. 1. I’ve written those 500 words twice this week, so that I now have over 5000. These are, of course,…

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Getting (Productively) Messy with Maggie Nelson. . .

Getting (Productively) Messy with Maggie Nelson. . .

Despite all the other tasks calling to me from/for this blog, most of them pleasurably if time-consuming, I’m going to take a few minutes to transcribe a paragraph from Maggie Nelson’s memoir The Argonauts. Nelson’s…

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Poetry Experiment Continued — With Apologies for Lab Failure by Management,

Poetry Experiment Continued — With Apologies for Lab Failure by Management,

Just a quick NewsFlash! to say I’m still here, and now, so are your comments (back on this post) to which I hope to respond very soon. A bit of technical background first. I have…

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Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.