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PIFF

February 9, 2009 gaisheagirl

I attended a portion of the Portland International Film Festival this weekend.  It was really a great mix of short…

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Posted in: Death, Life, movies, music, travel, Words, writing Filed under: Cannes Film Festival, Film Festivals, Greek Ilands, Love, Love Stories, Marriage, PIFF, Portland, Portland International Film Festival, Relationships, Short Films, SIFF, Tessa Papas, TriBeCa Film Festival

Home For The Holidays

January 31, 2009 gaisheagirl

Did I mention we had a little snow in Seattle over the Christmas holidays?  The fact may have been hidden…

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Posted in: humor, Life, reading, Words, writing Filed under: Christmas, Daughters, Family, Holidays, Relationships, Seattle, Snow, weather

Lenticular Festival

January 24, 2009 gaisheagirl

Friday, December 5th, Mt. Rainier, Washington: The show was spectacular!  I’ve seen these occasionally over the years, gracing the top…

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Posted in: Life, travel, writing Filed under: Lenticular Clouds, Mt. Rainier, Seattle, Washington, weather

Guilty?

January 20, 2009 gaisheagirl

The top ten most irritating phrases, according to researchers at Oxford University:   1 – At the end of the…

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Posted in: books, humor, publishing, rejection, writing Filed under: Common Usage, Language, Oxford, reading, Words

To Be or Not To Be

January 17, 2009 gaisheagirl

You may wonder about the secret, or not-so-secret, motivations that drive writers. Personally, I always thought most of it lay in validation:…

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Posted in: books, History, Life, publishing, reading, rejection, writing Filed under: Critics, Motivation, Peter DeVries, Words, writers

Why, Women?

December 16, 2008 gaisheagirl

Run, don’t walk, to your local corner bookstore and buy The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan. If you need a…

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Posted in: books, Death, God, humor, writing Filed under: Cancer, Family Life, Kelly Corrigan, Life, reading, The Middle Place, Women, women's fiction

Love Lost

December 9, 2008 gaisheagirl

Friends of mine suffered the terrible loss of their daughter over the weekend.  Their youngest grew up with my youngest and,…

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Posted in: Death, God, Life, writing Filed under: Grief, Loss, Love, Wild Children

Barn Beach Haikus

December 5, 2008 gaisheagirl

One side of my family comes from Eastern Washington.  My Great Grandfather settled there in 1908 and started the local…

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Posted in: arabian horses, History, reading, travel, writing Filed under: 4th Grade, Barn Beach Reserve, Environmental Issues, Field Family, Haikus, Harriett Bullitt, Jeff Parsons, Leaning centers, Leavenworth, Museums, The Barn, Upper Valley Museum in Leavenworth, Washington State

Flu the Coop

November 28, 2008 gaisheagirl

Well, it wasn’t the flu…it was pneumonia.  Walking pneumonia, to be exact.  Why it’s called walking pneumonia I can’t fathom. …

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Posted in: food, writing Filed under: Gratitude, levaquin, thanksgiving, walking pneumonia

Why Wyo

November 18, 2008 gaisheagirl

I’ve been out of the loop for the past week.  The flu that everyone else was getting, finally got me. …

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Posted in: dogs, travel, writing Filed under: Beautiful States, Dubois, Flu, Road Trips, Slide Show, wyoming

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