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Perhaps dusting off the shelf

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »

For more than three years, I reported on – and mused about — the local literary community here in town, on a blog associated with my former employer’s Web site. Despite a heavy workload that seemed to increase in heft every day, I never resented the time-consuming responsibility of keeping the blog up and running. It soon became [...]

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Hard habit to break

Posted in career transition, fiction, journalism, newspapers, tagged , , , on October 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Last night I went to an author lecture — my first since leaving the newspaper. Best-selling author Khaled Hosseini, (“The Kite Runner,” “A Thousand Splendid Seasons”) opened the 15th season of the lecture series I covered for 12 years. And I gotta be honest: It was weird. For a dozen years, I sat wedged between regular [...]

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Starting a new chapter

Posted in blogging, career transition, journalism, newspapers, tagged , , on July 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »

So I did it. Into pelting rain and beneath skies of gun-metal gray, I walked out of The Post-Standard for the last time as an employee two days ago, after filing my last Shelf Life blog post. My emotions remained remarkably in check until I started my migration down the long corridor. The one flanked by history: framed front-pages [...]

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Boxed in

Posted in blogging, fiction, writing, tagged , , on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not really a mumbo jumbo kind of girl. I don’t generally believe in fairies and fate and metaphysical signs. But, for some reason, I cannot dismiss this coincidence: My deadline for making a life-altering career decision falls on the exact same day that applications are due for an intensive creative writing course in town. [...]

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Greedy reader

Posted in blogging, health update, tagged , on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A front-page story in yesterday’s paper described a former military pilot’s efforts to get medical marijuana legalized in New York state. He uses the drug to ease his symptoms of primary-progressive MS — mostly pain and spasming limbs. The story made me realize how self-centered I’ve become, in terms of how I process certain information. [...]

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Nobody told me you could follow your bliss… and get lost

Posted in blogging, tagged , , on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Few here could have realized yesterday morning, as they scraped razors up over their chins and buttered triangles of toast, that the rug would fly out from under their feet shortly after 10:30 a.m. That’s when we felt the tremors, watched the cracks begin to spider out across the bedrock of our careers. The company [...]

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A desk of one’s own

Posted in blogging, tagged , , on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Clothes don’t make the man. You can’t judge a book by its cover. And a new place to write will not transform my measly words into precious gems. I’m with ya. Couldn’t agree more. But… All my adult life (and maybe even stretching back into my kidlet days), I’ve always coveted a big, old, wooden [...]

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