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Midnight Charades – A short poem
The moon reflects off the snow, Into my bedroom, Enticing me as though it were the sun To think, to ponder, to plan.
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I don’t recognize the sound, Of my own breathing. I’m in a vacuum. Don’t ask me how I feel. I feel nothing. I feel everything. It cancels out, To silence. “I think therefore I am”, I exist, Hung in space, And time, In someone’s mind, no substance. No that’s not it, Filling a void, With…
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“I Sent You a Letter”- thoughts on query letters
Sent out a query letter yesterday. Have you ever done that? After months of relentless writing and editing, refining, cutting swaths of thousands of words, it all comes down to a one page letter.It is easy to do the actual submitting these days with e-forms and email but without having a referral from a conference…
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50 Followers
Hi Everyone, just noting a milestone for this blog. In just about four months, fifty bloggers/people have become official followers of ClareGraith.com. I am thankful for each and every one of you. I appreciate also those of you who have chosen not to ‘follow’ but are loyal viewers and ‘likers’. The blogging community is so…
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Counting on Success
Repost due to yesterday’s glitch I’m a numbers person. Not math, strings of numbers. It gives me pleasure when a number is assigned to a record by the system and it has order like, 828928, or if I look at the clock and it says:11:11. Don’t get me started on dates. Every month last year,…
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Press Pause Please – The Art and Benefits of Organization
My home office came into existence March 16, 2020. Before that date, the dining room table worked just fine for the occasional stay at home days. I bought the cheapest monitor from Walmart since a laptop screen is too small for continuous work. I set up a “desk” using two folding camp tables. But work…
