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09/28/07
DOES YOUR POST REALLY BELONG IN LINK BLOG?
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08/27/08
World Wide Words
Just added this to my list of favourites
Interesting site full of information on origins and usage of English words and phrases.
08/25/08
New Site Launch
This is just a short post to let you know about the launch of my new blog, Quitters Cooperative. It’s only one day old but I’m hoping that some folk here may find something of interest on its pages.
08/18/08
The Shortest Story Ever Told.
Ernest Hemingway, as a young newspaperman in the 1920s, bet his colleagues $10 that he could write a complete story in just six words.
He won the cash with this: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”
Can anybody beat that?
08/03/08
MY OTHER LIFE
I was at the Summer Dreams Literary Festival last weekend in Stanley Park, put on yearly by the Pandora's Poetry Collective -- a grand afternoon of readers, writers and park goers. There was one booth set up by a writer's group where you picked a subject from a basket and did a 10 minute timed writing from it. The one I chose began something like "What they don't know about..." I decided to write about my 'other' life. Well, for one thing, being a Gemini I'm allowed more than one personality, right? I mean, I actually have even more than two. But mainly there are two sides to Wynn. One is my serious side, the writer, a rather shy person in many respects, who spends hours alone every day at the computer. I'm also outgoing in the way I like to talk, especially when I get to know a person or have a willing listener, and perhaps that need to talk is because of all the time I spend alone. I actually enjoy being solitary, and for years travelled alone although my last couple of trips have been with a friend.
And on those solo travel trips, in spite of my age and gender, I loved camping on my own -- I've often camped around Greece on my own and had some great adventures. (I'm too wary to do this at home, however!)
My looks are somewhat deceiving, so I can get away with indulging my second childhood without too much criticism. (I pass for much younger than I am and socialize with younger people). This leads me to being able to safely indulge in 'my other life'. You see, I am basically a party girl at heart. I love parties and social events and most of all I love dancing. I've always loved to dance but for a long time, when I was a kid, I was too shy. Later on though, I found that dancing was for me. (my Christian parents believed dancing might lead to naughty things and if I wanted to go to a school dance I'd have to fib and say it was a 'barn dance'.) The first thing I did when I started to work after graduating from high school was to secretly enroll in ballet and flamenco lessons. Currently I am passionate about salsa dancing and Latin music. I actually got introduced to Latin dancing back in the '50's on my first trip to California when everyone was mamboing to Tito Puente. Later on, in the 60's when I was married, we belonged to a private club and took samba and rhumba lessons. But it hasn't been til the last 10 years that I really got into the Latin dancing big-time. Now I go every weekend (and it used to be oftener) to dance salsa at my favorite haunt on the Drive, which is called the Latin Quarter.
I was always shy as a teen, and I remember once in junior high having to make a list for myself to force myself to be more outgoing. One thing on the list was "talk to a boy" and I'd tick this off if I'd had the courage to do it. Well, even today I hesitate being too bold, even to phoning a man. I know that today's women are much more outgoing in this respect, but I guess that's where I'm somewhat 'old-fashioned'. I'm reserved and shy when it comes to chatting up fellows. I still remember how my mom used to say "Don't chase boys!"
So, I make up for it by enjoying vicarious romances in the stories I write.
Oh, that isn't to say I've not had some memorable real-life experiences, because I have. It's just that 'shy' side of me that holds back. In fact, I guess I have spent so much time in my 'imaginary worlds' of the stories I write, that sometimes I forget how to project myself in the real world. Or is it that ultimate fear of rejection? (Being one of the 'older women' now is a definite disadvantage).
I can see I'm being somewhat 'double-sided' even in this posting. On one hand I'm this. On the other, I'm that. What some people don't realize til they get to know me, I can spin some fantastic tales of adventures that
often-times 'shock' those who think she's just a quiet 'older lady'!
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