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Get Out!
Getting out of my own way is a constant challenge. When I succeed, the world is larger, more exciting and more rewarding. Last week I wrote about my plan for devoting more time to my first love, poetry and rejoin the community of like minds. That intention, though, won’t matter unless I connect with the…
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2017 in Review
This weekend many of us will look over our shoulders and see what’s behind us, not what’s stalking us, but what we have accomplished, other than staying alive. Mostly, I think of the work I’ve done. Keeping a positive attitude so that I don’t shred myself to tatters over what’s left undone. So, let’s see…
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One-Hundred Word Story
The newest issue of Poets & Writers is on my desk, liberally underlined and already a little creased. Useful, as usual, and challenging. Of note is Grant Faulkner’s article “Imagination Under Pressure,” in which he recommends writing in sprints and in limited ways. Limited as in exactly a 100-word story. Gauntlet thrown, news article recalled,…
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What Inspires Me
TWISTED TREES It’s easy to praise lush trees weighted with fruit or flowers but the true test of love is to trace skeletal silhouettes, stripped of their leaves by the wind. What remains— the endurance of bark, exposed, the wisdom of bare branches to carry less of winter’s weight. Karen Douglass Photograph used with…
Karen Douglass, Author 