Radio essay online
I taped another radio essay last week. It went live this morning and you can hear it here: http://krccnews.org/rccnews/citizen-report-joan-i/2009/06/11/6111
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Finished!
As I type this, a summery breeze is blowing through my office window. I can smell lilacs. The new book, HOW TO BAKE A PERFECT LIFE is finished at last…written, rewritten, given to agent and editor...
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Colorado Springs On Fire
A mountain wildfire started in a canyon nearby the westside of Colorado Springs Saturday. I noticed the weird pink light in my house and snapped this picture from my office window, of the smoke plume...
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Putting Summer Away
Before I forget: Amazon included In the Midnight Rain in an October special, so it’s .99 for the whole month. If you haven’t read it, now is a good time to grab it. Now…on to the blog…. It’s a...
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All Is Well, even if it doesn’t seem like it
It has been a traumatic period in the history of my city. A photo I took the Friday before last at the Arcade. Last Friday night, I watched the water pour through Manitou Springs, over the sidewalks...
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Local pleasures
Yesterday, CR and I went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to see the new Rocky Mountain Wild exhibit. This is a zoo worth visiting, truly–not large, but built along the mountain overlooking Colorado...
View ArticleOf taproots and home towns
Yesterday, weary of the restlessness that has followed me around for two days, I gave up the pretense of getting some pages one and drove to the downtown library. They had a particular book I wanted,...
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The Lost Recipe for Happiness has gone back to print for a third time. Hooray! If you are in Pueblo, please come celebrate a launch party with me on Saturday, January 10, 2-4 pm at Barnes and Noble....
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Joan Didion, the celebrated writer, went to Columbia Elementary School for awhile. The old building, made of red sandstone (as well as I can recollect), not the modern version that occupies the lot...
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no matter what, you have to keep smiling
Saw these in a vintage shop on West Colorado Avenue last Saturday. Something about the colors, the ragged edge of that door, the cheery trio of smiles, the suitcase….captured me. I’m still thinking...
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