Tag: life
member name: David Rochester
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February 16, 2007 01:22 PM EST --
I've always thought of myself as a creative person. Specifically, I've always thought of myself as a writer. Ever since I was about twelve years old, there was one story in particular . . .
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October 23, 2006 11:24 PM EDT --
Recently it was suggested to me by a Gather and blogging friend that publication of memoir is a serious betrayal of trust, and that sharing of personal experience is better accomplished by fictionalization . . .
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November 07, 2006 12:14 AM EST --
1) Recently I showed a house to a young couple who struck me as rather peculiar. The husband is older than the wife, and they had an odd method of communicating, whereby everything I said had . . .
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January 11, 2007 03:10 PM EST --
Some of you were kind enough to tell me that you enjoyed the random chapter I posted of a book I am writing, which I keep abandoning and then looking at and then abandoning again. I doubt I will . . .
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October 25, 2006 12:39 AM EDT --
Today I was in line at my local bio/eco/organic/free-range grocery, and noticed that the cashier was wearing a button encouraging shoppers to add a sum to their bill, in support of Meals-on-Wheels. . . .
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December 04, 2006 10:55 PM EST --
I wrote this little piece for the benefit of my editing/coaching clients who were beginning the daunting task of sending out manuscripts for publication. I thought there might be readers . . .
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December 08, 2006 08:09 PM EST --
I am spending a couple of days by myself at my parents' beach condo; ostensibly this is a writing retreat, but I do not think it will turn out that way. I am finding it very relaxing to be . . .
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December 28, 2006 01:24 AM EST --
Over the past few months, a number of people have suggested to me that I should return to school in order to complete my BA degree. I am having a massive amount of resistance to this idea; to . . .
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September 28, 2006 10:10 AM EDT --
Swans
The consensus among the family was that Susan's brother-in-law Ed was henpecked – only that wasn't the word they used. Susan had always liked . . .
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October 03, 2006 03:35 PM EDT --
Today at the post office I was in line behind a distinguished-looking older gentleman in a nicely-tailored dark blue suit; he had a magnificent head of silvering dark hair and a stern . . .
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October 28, 2006 10:43 PM EDT --
I was early, and decided to admire the bartender: dark hair, blue eyes, rosebud kiss-coaxing mouth.
"Do you make a good whiskey sour?"
"The best."
"Prove . . .
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October 05, 2006 08:25 PM EDT --
My father gave me a handful of his old golf balls, thinking they might make good cat toys. The cats seemed fairly indifferent to them, but one day somebody batted one right under my desk, and I idly started . . .
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September 27, 2006 02:37 PM EDT --
Yesterday I had occasion to purchase three dozen donuts to serve to a gaggle of realtors who were previewing one of my new listings. It took one of the girls behind the counter . . .
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October 28, 2006 03:26 PM EDT --
This evening I attended a performance of a play called The Laramie Project, as performed by the Lincoln High School theater department. I was invited by my friends Diane and Allen and had . . .
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October 31, 2006 04:53 PM EST --
1) I was back in high school with the same people who were in my junior year Creative Writing class, except that we were all adults now. The teacher was the same guy, Mr. Davis, but he looked very . . .
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September 24, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
Recently I suffered through a plumbing adventure. I had noticed that my kitchen sink was giving off whiffs of decaying vegetation, but had been too busy to investigate the cause. . . .
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October 31, 2008 11:53 AM EDT --
Today I am soliciting the opinions of my readers on a topic I have to figure out soon, preferably before next Thursday when I see my therapist again. I realize this isn't much time, so your . . .
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October 13, 2006 06:13 PM EDT --
One of the things I sometimes do for writers who have just barely begun to write, such as the author whose work I edited today, is to rewrite a little bit of the story with my editing corrections in place, . . .
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November 03, 2008 10:29 PM EST --
As I mentioned in my last post, I have laryngitis. It's worse today than it was yesterday; yesterday if I tried and tried and tried, I could kind of make myself heard. Today, I can't . . .
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November 07, 2008 07:30 PM EST --
Thank you again to all of you who so generously put your hearts and minds to the task of sharing with me how you view the concept of meaning in your lives. I have been processing all of the thoughts . . .
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