Writing Prompt, July 3: Summer Camp

July 3, 2009

Write about summer camp. If you didn’t go to camp, pretend you did and write about that. Or make up a story about somebody who did go. I found a letter in my childhood keepsake box, “my treasures,” addressed to my older sister Nancy and me, from our friend Dodie Pettit, about being at overnight […]

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Writing Prompt, July 16: Sorrows

July 2, 2009

“All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about them.”Karen BlixenWrite about a summer sorrow.

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Writing Prompt, July 2: A Summer Word

July 2, 2009

Pick a word that captures a feeling of summer. Write about it. Here’s something I wrote in a prompt workshop. Some of you have heard it. My word: Dawdle Dawdle: I watch the two little bodies walking down the beach at the water’s edge where the sand is cooler. I can see their shoulders held […]

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T-shirt Truth

June 13, 2009

I saw this T-shirt at a street fair in Cambridge, MA, last weekend–part of the first annual Dance For World Community Festival. The festival was organized by the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre and is a project dedicated to expanding the role of dance in local communities. Along with all the tasty food, the festival featured […]

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Writing Alone, Well Almost

May 25, 2009

Sitting at my hotel room desk, writing, I look up–gloating just a bit–over the view, the quiet, and the privacy. I could sit here in the buff, I’m thinking. Blue bliss. Oops. What are these guys doing? End of revery.

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Wide Open Desktops

May 23, 2009

At home, I have an office. It’s my very own space. My files spill from the black metal drawers; cardboard boxes and stacks of paper litter the desk and floor; books cram the shelves. I feel fortunate to have a nook I can call my own–cinderblock walls, pockmarked drop ceiling, buckling linoleum floor and all. […]

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Seriously. We’re cats.

April 30, 2009

This is our last post for a while. Yes, we’ve missed a few days but what do you expect? We’re cats. Just try to train us.Write about your attempts to tame or train something. And good luck.

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Shadows

April 28, 2009

Write about your shadow, or somebody else’s.

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Sharing a bed

April 27, 2009

Write about sleeping with somebody.

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What do you expect?

April 26, 2009

Some of you are wondering why we don’t post at the same time every day, why we miss some days. We are cats, that’s why. Need I say more?Write about what you expect.

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