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[This was written during a workshop on Memory, Identity and Magical Realism run by my talented sister, Jenny Hill, at ActsofJennius.com. I highly recommend exploring the offerings there. In this assignment we altered a photograph that had a specific memory associated, and then wrote about the altered version.] Eye On Intruders “Alert, Alert! Interlopers! Intruders!,”
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It’s theme word time. This year, I feel like December has snuck up on me. We’re halfway through and I am not prepared to end my year with any forward looking anything. I can barely register what’s on today’s To Do list. Despite that, this tradition needs to continue. So for the past week, I’ve
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Revisiting Anam Cara
Twelve years ago, Tod & I visited Anam Cara for a poetry workshop given by my sister, Jenny Hill, and Jack McGuigan. (My main memory of that trip is memorialised in this poem.) When I realised that we’d be in the area this year for the European Juggling Convention in Millstreet, of course we had
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I am a Novelist
Book-length fiction completed.
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Handy phrases for vegetarians, near-vegetarians, and picky eaters in Japan
How to get what you want to eat.
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Kangaroos by Ogden Nash
The kangaroo can jump incredible. He has to jump, because he’s edible. I could not eat a kangaroo, But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo meringues. (Ogden Nash wrote this to be read along with Saint-Saens’ The Carnival of Animals – Kangaroos.)
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At the Library
Cultural spectrum
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A riddle
The answer is so true
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Better Life, Olive Crown
a poem
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Sorn
Two new old words.


