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"Barack Obama is president of my heart.
Seriously, though, how brilliant that speech was. And how brilliant to have it preceded by those speeches from actual real-life "regular" people -- his appearing after that seemed like the logical..." [
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8 days ago
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"Outrage on behalf of purported children over these sorts of things -- "bad" words, nipple slips, etc. -- is quite rich considering that the bawdy, grotesque, and shocking (at least to our modern ears) is more or less how children have been..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Seconding amro -- this past June we learned that our beloved 14-year-old cat's rather expansive stomach wasn't due to obesity but cancerous tumors.
We had a similar situation in that the kind of rare skin cancer she had didn't affect her ability..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Yeah.... as both a writer working from home on fierce deadlines and a parent of two small children, this whole "Stop multi-tasking!" concept seems like a sick joke. A sweet, sweet, delightfully tempting sick joke, but still. The reality of..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Med school is difficult. Internship sucks. The first year of residency sucks. But the second year of residency is better. And the third year of residency (and each successive year) is even better than that. Fellowship, if you do one, can be even..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ouchitburns, elisynn, adiabat, abirae
3 weeks ago
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"Seriously, does this stuff actually work?
Before Oprah anointed him America's Doctor, Dr. Oz spearheaded a "complementary care center" out of what was then Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. (My husband worked with him there.) The..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by hap_hazard, lupus_yonderboy, Skorgu, nickyskye, Kronos_to_Earth, mygothlaundry, treepour, bunnytricks
4 weeks ago
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"I've more or less given up. I mean, I try to stop -- we use a lot of SpongeBob swear-words as substitutes -- but I'm afraid the damage has long been done. So to balance out the swearing we have had lots of conversations about "home" words..." [
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favorited 22 times, recently by bendy, arcticwoman, lioness, lemuria, logic vs love, you're a kitty!, aye, agregoli, ashirys, Elaisa, hecho de la basura, k8t, nadise, gudrun, for_serious, jamaro, sbrollins, lalochezia, misozaki, craven_morhead, rossination, dondiego87
4 weeks ago
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"Seconding Readerville -- it's a good place for discussion of books as well as the practical aspects of the writing life." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 weeks ago
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"When I was working on my first book, and confronting anew my ever-present fraud complex, sure that whatever I wrote would be such crap my editor would consider it more a cry for help than an actual book and that my publisher would demand that I..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by dreamling, lucyleaf, salvia, konolia, nooneyouknow, ourobouros
4 weeks ago
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"Welcome back, nickyskye -- I'm so thrilled you are back and doing well!" [
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Last month
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"Pema Chodron's book When Things Fall Apart has been recommended lots on MetaFilter -- I also just read/listened to her speaking on the subject of "shenpa" and learning to stay. Basically -- in an enormously simplified nutshell -- she talks..." [
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Last month
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"Creative writing is something I enjoy and do as a hobby, but the thought of the pressure that comes with producing creative things consistently under deadlines stresses me out.
And yet that pretty much describes the life of a professional writer..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by elisynn, divabat
Last month
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"Chiming in to agree with those who mentioned mermaids, fairies, etc. -- and to agree about the near inevitability of a "princess"/girly phase that will just as inevitably pass... Actually, at this point, as we reach Hannah Montana..." [
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favorited 103 times, recently by booknerd, taz, psmealey, valleys, bove, thegreatcurve, STHayden, notashroom, baho, noether, onoclea, special-k, yohko, eckeric, streetdreams, freshwater_pr0n, alyxstarr, aclevername, Miko, ntartifex, msali, curie, clumbsy, mittenedsex, RobotHeart, fuzzbean, Xere, jadepearl, banjo_and_the_pork, Fence, andraste, flutable, arcticwoman, ick, lhall, pineapple, agregoli, scission, lowlife, barrakuda, flying kumquat, Chuckles McLaughy du Haha, the depressed clown, cass, hilatron, banannafish, fijiwriter, limeonaire, hmca, Drop Daedalus, like_neon
Last month
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"In general: If you're crafty/handy, it might be fun to make a card for her that's a mock-up of her book cover, but with a title and blurbs that are all about how awesome she is. Just grab a jpg of the cover off Amazon, use Photoshop, and go nuts --..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ClaudiaCenter
Last month
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"I posted about this more in depth here, but basically the method that works best for me in these situations is: Recognize, Refrain, Relax, Resolve.
An excerpt from Pema Chodron's Getting Unstuck, where she explains this better than I..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by ApathyGirl, sweetkid, lysdexic, Kat Allison, scody, small_ruminant, By The Grace of God, yohko, The Light Fantastic, KAS, different, sculpin, runtina, ®@
2 months ago
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"Yeah, you know, we just got ours last night, and the first thing my kids did was bust it out and set up WiiFit profiles for themselves. I had to moderate the whole thing, because to an almost 9-year-old and a 5.5-year old, it seemed pretty harsh. My..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by TheDonF, davejay, cashman, Monochrome, flatluigi, ukdanae, chronic sublime, mrzarquon, where u at dawg, Jon Mitchell, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, peep, smartyboots, JHarris, pb, Remy, Riki tiki, scrump, elfgirl, tomcooke, mygothlaundry, pointystick, ShawnStruck, mathowie
3 months ago
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"Awesome!
You know, we had a bit of a Wii-breakthrough, and I thought about updating my WiiFit comment in the original post, but maybe I'll throw it in here. After being totally demoralized by the WiiFit's casual frankness in regards to his..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gac, davejay
3 months ago
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"On the "tough love" side, I once had a friend say to me (in the midst of a similar lamezilla attack, and in the context of a semi-private joke), "Reality check: you are not the piece of shit in the middle of the floor!" Brutal,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
3 months ago
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"There's all sorts of unspoken rules as far as walking down the streets goes
My favorite walking-down-the-street-in-NY story is from when I used to live in Hoboken and work in the city and took the bus back and forth every day. I usually walked..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by eckeric, stet, huskerdont, CrazyJoel, shmegegge, uncleozzy
3 months ago
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"Do they have kids? Was this a rare opportunity to get some nookie without having the kids around?
I assure you that you can fuck just fine in a twin bed.
See, and I was going to say, as someone married for double-digit years with two kids, that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kittyprecious
3 months ago
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"I don't know... I hear/read this kind of argument, which seems to kind of be a fleshed out consensus of an anecdote, and yet (to put forth my own anecdata) just the other day, when my husband said something out loud about looking something up on..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by spacewaitress, jock@law, shmegegge, lord_wolf, k8t
3 months ago
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"From the perspective of an interviewee, I can tell you that being even vaguely familiar with the body of work of person you're interviewing, or even just having a basic acquaintance with the new/noteworthy work in particular, will give you a leg up..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]
5 months ago
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"This is awesome. My 8-year-old is desperate for her own Macbook Pro, and has taken to creating her own out of paper (she colors one side grey with a white apple for the logo). Her keyboards have buttons that say "secrets," "[her..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by phatkitten, melorama
9 months ago
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"Speaking as a mother of two and a wife of nearly 13 years, there is nothing more romantic than a spouse who does the laundry. I'm exaggerating, sure, but not by much. Especially when my kids were little, and I was being touched all day by little..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by saucysault, splendid animal
9 months ago
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"I kept my last name. We now have two kids: our daughter has my last name, our son has his last name. (If I'd known we'd have two kids, and that we'd have a son and a daughter, I would have given the son my name and the daughter his, just to mix..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by k8t
9 months ago
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"I have four books -- and another one coming out in a big way in just a few weeks: The Daring Book For Girls. I'll be talking about it on the Today Show on the 31st!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
10 months ago
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"doggie-dog
Cute. Supposably things like that are a blessing in the skies. You might take it for granite. But don't make an affidavid out of it.
Reminds me of my favorite phrase ever, as spoken by an interviewee in some A&E..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kimota, dogwalker, jiawen
11 months ago
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"Don't query agents serially -- go to Agent Query to look for likely candidates and query as many as you think will be a good fit for your kind of writing, given their clients, their areas of interests, and their track records. Read Miss Snark for an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dead_
Last year
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"A similar tale: The Maiden Without Hands -- this version by the Brothers Grimm has many of the same elements as the Armless Maiden story." [
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Last year
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"I edited three anthologies that were published last year. In my case, I wrote the book proposals (and included a handful of sample essays by willing writers, whom I knew personally and whom I promised to pay upon securing a publishing contract; plus..." [
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"Yeah, this doesn't sit too well with me. I had an unpleasant first-person experience with something along these lines -- as an author.
Basically: maybe two years ago, a customer ordered a copy of my first book from Amazon. Amazon shipped her a..." [
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Last year
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"And then, of course, there's this recent story, from a Swedish newspaper last month:
A book reviewer on a Swedish newspaper has got himself into hot water for writing a review of a book that has not been written. To make matters worse, Kristian..." [
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Last year
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"how do you divide personal/professional time?
Wait, you can do that???
Like baggers said, it's kind of project-dependent. But I have to say, having worked from home as a writer for the last 7 years, that my personal/professional boundary is..." [
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