Author Archives: literarylee

About literarylee

I sling words for a living. Always have, always will. Some have been interesting and fun; most not. These days, I write the fun words early in the morning before the adults are up and make me eat my Cream of Wheat.

Search (Find just what you want to read)

Posted on June 2, 2011 by literarylee

You can search for blog posts to read by grouping them in several different ways.  A basic Search box, at the top of the right-hand column, allows you to find whatever word or content you’re looking for from within the entire blog.  Archives, … Continue reading →

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The Ideas (Adding Words to Life)

Posted on June 1, 2011 by literarylee

See the tab just under the header called, “The Ideas: Adding Words to Life“?  It leads to a page full of links to suggestions I’m collecting for how to live a little more literarily.  One of the two missions of … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Union Center

Posted on May 31, 2011 by literarylee

Life in and around the Union Center goes at its own pace, listens to its own music, lives by its own rules.  A jarring combination of open and shut, welcoming and forbidding, not everyone is comfortable even visiting, not to … Continue reading →

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What I’m Writing – (Projects and Collections)

Posted on May 31, 2011 by literarylee

Directly below the header (the picture across the top of the page) are several tabs with basic information.  One tab, “What I’m Writing,” contains brief descriptions of the various projects I’m working on.  Most of what I am writing so … Continue reading →

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The Rider Chronicles 1 – Excrutiating Waiting

Posted on May 30, 2011 by literarylee

Nine months of waiting finally over,  Rider, our grandson, was born early Friday morning after more than two long days of labor.  On Wednesday afternoon, we dashed from Alexandria to a cousin’s place in New Jersey, close to Manhattan where … Continue reading →

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The Gettysburg Address

Posted on May 30, 2011 by literarylee

Abraham Lincoln Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil … Continue reading →

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Share / Save (Like an article? Send it to someone)

Posted on May 30, 2011 by literarylee

At the end of every post you see a bar that says Share/Save followed by little symbols.  This feature allows the reader to share this blog with other people or make it easy to find again later.  Hover the cursor … Continue reading →

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Literary and Devotional

Posted on May 29, 2011 by literarylee

Orthodox churches this past Sunday commemorated the account of Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman he talked to at Jacob’s Well.  The account is in John 4:5-42.  One of the hymns the Orthodox sang on that day is filled with … Continue reading →

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The Fences of Washington

Posted on May 28, 2011 by literarylee

It started with a picture, a simple photograph.  A few days before the Cherry Blossom Festival on a windy Wednesday evening, we were among the very few people walking along the Tidal Basin, enjoying the just-emerging blossoms.  Behind a fence … Continue reading →

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Photos (Hover the cursor over the picture to see the second caption)

Posted on May 28, 2011 by literarylee

Photos on this blog all include a title and a caption.  The caption is plainly visible beneath the picture.  To see the title, which I often write to be  a second caption, hover the cursor over the photo itself.  I … Continue reading →

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