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New to Market

May 8, 2008 gaisheagirl

I visited Seattle’s Pike Place Market today.  It sprawls over nine acres at the base of the city where Seattle…

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Posted in: writing Filed under: Farmer's Markets, Fiddleheads, food, Pike Place Market, Ramps, Seattle, Shad Roe

Error of Omission

May 5, 2008 gaisheagirl 2d Comments

Something to think about next time you’re editing your own work. This week on waggish.org: Pick a work of literature…

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Posted in: writing Filed under: Games, literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Shakespeare, Waggish.org, Words

Rainbow Season

May 2, 2008 gaisheagirl

Spring is magic in so many ways: buds popping from dead looking branches, color pushing its way up through bleak…

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Posted in: God, writing Filed under: Appreciation, Grace, Rainbows, Sping

May Day, May Day

May 1, 2008 gaisheagirl

May Day and all I can think about is the end of the month.  Help me! I’m making a trip…

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Posted in: travel, writing Filed under: Cacio & Pepe, food, French Food, Greenwich Village, Houston Street, Katz's Deli, La Goulue Bistro, Lupa Restaurante, New Yurk City, Pasta, Pastrami, pickles, Profiteroles, Roman Food

A Much Ado

April 27, 2008 gaisheagirl

I attended a writer’s conference yesterday.  Early on I was engaged to host one of the presenters; to make him…

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Posted in: rejection, writing Filed under: indifference, novelists, plays, Poets, writers conferences

Heart-Stopping

April 24, 2008 gaisheagirl

What a lovely idea.  Take a group of people who are largely forgotten by today’s society, give them purpose, an…

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Posted in: music, writing Filed under: Coldplay, Fix You, old age, Young at Heart Choir

The World Clock

April 22, 2008 gaisheagirl

I think a good follow-up to tax day last week is a quick examination of world affairs, in particular a focus…

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Posted in: writing Filed under: Births, Deaths, Network TV, Population, The World Clock, TV News

Throwing Doughnuts on Tax Day

April 15, 2008 gaisheagirl

At the beautiful Cafe Imperial in Prague, one may buy a tray of stale doughnuts for 2,000 crowns ($60 American) and throw them…

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Posted in: publishing, writing Filed under: Cafe Imperial, catagories of people, character, Cold War, donuts, doughnuts, Hasek, humor, personalities, Prague, Skvorecky, Taxes

I Confess

April 11, 2008 gaisheagirl 1 Comment

OK— I confess I have not been drawn into the obsession with American Idol.  Nearly all of my friends are…

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Posted in: God, music, writing Filed under: American Idol, confessions, Jason Castro, Over the Rainbow, writers

Flight of the Red Balloon

April 9, 2008 gaisheagirl

Taiwanese director, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s newest work is based on a 1956 film by Lamorisse, but a much more delicate piece…

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Posted in: movies, writing Filed under: directing, films, Flight of the Red Balloon, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lamorisse, Paris, Seinfeld

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