Well as a child and a teen there was one thing your room never needed and that was carpeting. The floor was only found after you went to college. It was wall to wall laundry, papers, CDs……I think you may be slightly neater now but I have not seen the new place yet. Your driving [...]
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Hello readers. So it seems like right now, it’s the holidays, the blogosphere is going to be cooling down. I mean, I know that I will certainly be posting at the Tart less frequently in the coming weeks as I work on holiday-y things like shopping and baking and keeping cats from chewing ribbon off [...]
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Since it’s Suicide Prevention Week here in the US I posted on mental illness at the YA-5 this week. Reposting today is especially important to me, since it’s Suicide Prevention Day. Would love to hear your responses. Here’s the post: Okay, before I get all serious on you, I want to remind you to visit [...]
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When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a marine biologist. I mean, I also had a dog-eared copy of Emily Dickinson’s COMPLETE POEMS, and I’d like to think that that part of my Inner Nine-Year-Old is okay with my career choices. But the part that wanted to go in the ocean and [...]
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So today I was talking to a new friend about growing up and high school and how these experiences have made me love writing for teens. I mean, seriously, what an amazing audience to have! And I may have been dealing with a lot as a teenager (aren’t we all?) and I was kind of [...]
~ read more ~Believe it or not, I’m literate. I spend a lot of time reading pop novels, because that’s what I like to read. I’d like to think that one day I’ll battle through Ulysses, or even engage some of the Hemingway tomes I’ve bought for my boyfriend. I have books by Virginia Woolf and fully intend [...]
~ read more ~Women are fat. We’re not chubby or plump. We’re not hefty or big. We’re fat. Men can be jolly or whatever. I’ve decided to be squishy. Most of the time I’m okay with squishy. My boyfriend is okay with squishy, he’s really only ever known me squishy. Of course there’s the inevitable return-to-the-hometown desire: I [...]
~ read more ~Summer time can be a veritable wasteland for cable viewers – our network favorites go into reruns and new short-season summer series are often no more than a flash in the pan. Thankfully TNT developed The Closer a few years ago providing at least one night a week with some clever crime drama. Army Wives, [...]
~ read more ~Inspired by my many “serious” blogger friends, I am hereby abandoning my past as a “casual” blogger. Blogging is, as some might say, serious business, after all, and there are a lot of serious things to be said. My name is Emily, but some of you may have read my poetry published under the moniker [...]
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