All the posts that are about just for today … a memoir is the remembered notes and reflections of the day to day. These include reflections of COVID, of days at home, and just thoughts about life.
Memoir is a popular genre of books, as well, and many of these posts started out as ideas that seemed they could be their own book … and yet they didn’t become that.
“Little pieces of life” is how I think of them. Somehow I couldn’t quite get them all to connect. But many of them are very fine.
Susan Taylor Brand is a pen name. I created it so I could write about all the stuff that was too personal to put under my own name. At first, that meant my short stories and creative nonfiction, but later it became my memoir of the COVID days and then the Divorce. Thus, the cast […]
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Can you improve your life by visiting online quiz websites? This evening, I’ve decided to try . It started with just one online quiz website. And pretty soon I had a power set of quizzes, falling into the four categories of self development from my blog categories: Body, Heart, Mind, Spirit. Now, I did find
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On Saturday, it was time for me to be a serious cross country skiing beginner, on a trip that I broke the law to complete. This was a hiking club trip that I had signed up for over a month ago, and which was so actively anticipated that when I couldn’t find used skis I
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Adjective: Picaresque: 1. relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero. Noun: Picaresque novel: A novel relating the story of such a character. The picaresque is not a new thing. Famous novels in this vein include Tom Jones, Huckleberry Finn, and, the granddaddy of
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I told the kids about the divorce. And that brought up, indirectly, the memories of Texas. I don’t know how this happened. How the breakdown of the family somehow became synonymous with the sojourn in the Big State. I don’t even know if it’s fair. Sometimes one thing gets to stand in for something else
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First of all some brief details on traveling Trail Ridge Road: What: A 48-mile long route along the tops of the Rocky Mountains, crossing the Continental Divide, and allowing serene and amazing views of the tundra ecosystem, the mountain sky, and snowy cirques. (Cirques are those bowls near the mountain peaks that catch snow and
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No no no no. They have told me it’s scary. There are cliffs. Apparently pretty dramatic ones. My mother, who is afraid of heights, went up there once and now she’s afraid to drive on any part of the Rockies. Even people generally considered “normal” and not paranoid or unstable say Trail Ridge Road is
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