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Author Archives: literarylee
I Won!
I wrote 51,722 words of my first novel, Marigold Man, in 30 days, from November 1 to November 30. The folks who run National Novel Writing Month call that winning. Here is a quote from the organization’s Winner’s Page: Congratulations, … Continue reading
The Shrimp
Ogden Nash A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp Could catch no glimpse Not even a glimp. At times, translucence Is rather a nuisance.
Hello from Bombay – A Letter I Wrote to American Schoolchildren
(Some of the earlier letters I had written home from Bombay had found their way to a local school. The teacher asked if I could write about a typical day in our life in Bombay. Here is the result.) April … Continue reading
Autumn Movement Reflections
November, 2009 I’ve been reviewing the poem “Autumn Movement” by Carl Sandburg and watching Fall beauty come and go and realizing the harder lesson of this season. The easy thing Fall teaches is to be grateful for what we have … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Poem Memorizing Tips and Articles, Poems Memorized
Tagged Autumn Movement, Carl Sandberg, death, fall, loss
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Layered Landmarks
I noticed this view way back in spring and note it almost every morning from the bus as it crosses the Potomac on the 14th Street Bridge traveling from Virginia to the District of Columbia. I thought if I were … Continue reading
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Tagged Kennedy Center, landmarks, Lincoln Memorial, National Cathedral, photo captions, The Watergate
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A Raw, Unedited Marigold Man Excerpt
(In which Paul’s neighbor, Condor, suggests that Project Marigold might be more successful with a team of people planting plants, instead of just Paul planting seeds on his own. Note: I haven’t re-written or edited this. It is raw, baby, … Continue reading
Mum’s The Word Update
Once upon a time in the distant recesses of garden history, those heady, hopeful, virile days of tilling soil and planting seed, I started 24 mum plants. Each was simply a few inches of snipped chrysanthemum hope, dipped in a … Continue reading
Autumn Movement
Carl Sandburg I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts. The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds. The northwest wind … Continue reading