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Employee Review in Verse

Posted on March 24, 2017 by literarylee

A fact I have never disclosed in this blog is that I am a U.S. federal government employee. The agency that employs me requires us to produce employee reviews once a year. I think this is pretty standard practice in most businesses … Continue reading →

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I’d Never Write…

Posted on April 1, 2016 by literarylee

…if I waited for the perfect thing to write about and never risked offending anyone. I don’t know when this idea got planted in my brain but at some point I decided I shouldn’t, and didn’t want to, write personal, reflective posts in … Continue reading →

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Still Time to Write

Posted on March 2, 2016 by literarylee

Only four or five months left in my Australian sojourn and I’ve hardly written a word about it or anything else, really. Except for the extremely formal stylized stuff I write at work, a few isolated stabs at picking up … Continue reading →

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A Spectator Riding Into the City

Posted on November 8, 2012 by literarylee

I’m on a bus to the Metro which will take me to into town so I can visit the Historical Society of Washington.  Been a month and a half since I’ve been on a bus and it sure feels good, … Continue reading →

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A Sentence A Day Gives a Blog Much to Say

Posted on September 28, 2012 by literarylee

I got an email from someone who discovered  Carrot and Honey, my other blog, and sent me the following email: Hello! I stumbled across your blog and noticed your “contact me” section.  There, you indicated that you are willing to … Continue reading →

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Introducing This Blog’s New Baby Brother

Posted on September 27, 2012 by literarylee

This blog has a new baby brother named Carrot and Honey.  It’s where I am writing about my year of unpaid sabbatical leave. Why two blogs?  I have always  considered The Life Literary to be more of a portfolio of … Continue reading →

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Writing A Sentence

Posted on September 25, 2012 by literarylee

Here’s an interesting and helpful essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg about writing sentences.  He says that most sentences do not say what the writer intended they say, and that a sentence writer needs to learn to understand that his sentence will … Continue reading →

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Seeing the Wild Redhead in the Median

Posted on July 19, 2012 by literarylee

Did anyone else see the fox I just saw?  It looked, hair-wise, like a relative of mine, a wild canine redhead with a silky bushy auburn tail (though neither my kin nor I have tails).  The lean creature loped slowly westward across the median … Continue reading →

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Using every darned last inch of this costly journal down to the last line

Posted on June 26, 2012 by literarylee

I intend to use every darned inch of this journal.  I have these last two-point-five empty blank pages left before the whole thing is full.  Waste not want not.  Be frugal.  Be careful.  Check the balance.  Watch out, especially with … Continue reading →

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Another Postcard: Weird Chicago Gothic

Posted on May 18, 2012 by literarylee

From my twenty-second floor hotel room window, I have a great view of some of Chicago’s most interesting downtown buildings.  I call the architectural style here Weird Chicago Gothic.  Tall 100 year-old stone structures wear spires, buttresses, ornate carvings and … Continue reading →

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