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27 February, 2017
And the Oscar Goes To….
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27 February, 2017
Awards, News, Of Interest
Last night, amidst all the glitz, glitter and glamour, the 89th Annual Academy Awards – the “Oscars” – were handed out in a star studded ceremony in (where else?) Hollywood, California. Among the statuettes handed out, two were for writing excellence: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay. Just in case you were in the […]
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16 December, 2016
Gimbling in the Wabe – The Gift of Reading
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16 December, 2016
Gimbling in the Wabe
I tend to be one of those people who obsesses over gift giving. I don’t get a chance to do it all that often – I’m actually pretty frugal in that regard, sometimes by choice, now by necessity. And I don’t really like getting gifts myself; I’ve rarely liked being the center of attention which […]
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8 July, 2016
Gimbling in the Wabe – Of Words and Dogs and Little Fishes*
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8 July, 2016
Gimbling in the Wabe
I feel so blessed that I can “work” from home as a book reviewer, essayist and occasionally as a literary editor, and to comfortably say that I read for a living. It’s like living the dream (well, until the bills come in, but that’s neither here nor there). But I didn’t realize just how […]
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1 July, 2016
Gimbling in the Wabe – What is a Writer?
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1 July, 2016
Gimbling in the Wabe
(Due to this nasty thing known as a “deadline”, this Gimbling in the Wabe is a repeat of one first posted here in 2014. I think it’s still a pretty good one, if I do say so myself….) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ So what is a “writer”? Common sense would tell us a writer […]
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7 August, 2015
Gimbling in the Wabe – Beautiful, Beautiful Words
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7 August, 2015
Gimbling in the Wabe
There are quite a few memorable first sentences in literature: “Call me Ishmael.” “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Or, my personal favorite, “In a hole […]
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24 July, 2015
Gimbling in the Wabe – Daydream Believer
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24 July, 2015
Gimbling in the Wabe
We humans are so divergent in who we are, how we react and respond, in how our minds work and our ideas play out. It’s glorious. I’m not talking ideologies or dogma or beliefs or rationalizations. That’s not quite as glorious. I’m talking about how we relate to our private selves, and to others around […]
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6 March, 2015
Gimbling in the Wabe – Words, Words, Words
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6 March, 2015
Gimbling in the Wabe
This is a repeat of a Gimbling in the Wabe from 2013. Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. ~William Shakespeare Although it can certainly be argued to the contrary, it seems that humans are the only creatures who use spoken language as opposed to creatures that “merely” communicate. And although human language has […]
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20 February, 2015
Gimbling in the Wabe – In Which I Divulge a Secret
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20 February, 2015
Gimbling in the Wabe
I have a secret I’m going to share with you. It’s not that searing of a secret, just something I haven’t really talked about with anyone; perhaps to keep from raising expectations, perhaps due to fear of failure. But I think I’ve learned something from keeping this secret that undermines its relevancy, so it feels […]
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24 November, 2014
Ursula Le Guin and the Speech that Rocked the National Book Awards
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24 November, 2014
News
On Wednesday, November 19, in association with the announcement of the winners of the 2014 National Book Awards, Neil Gaiman presented the National Book Foundation’s medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Ursula K. Le Guin. In its press release announcing the award, the NBF stated, “For more than forty years, Le Guin has […]
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25 April, 2014
Gimbling in the Wabe – What is a Writer?
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25 April, 2014
Gimbling in the Wabe
So what is a “writer”? Common sense would tell us a writer is “one who writes”, at least using the word in its broadest term. Google defines “writer” as “a person who has written a particular text”, and then goes on to give various and sundry examples, from professional to scribe to composer to data […]
