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on the lamentable lack of writing groups in the farmington valley
So, I belong to a wonderful poetry group called the Faxon Poets, based in Elmwood CT (a mini-town of West Hartford). The group is fantastic, the people are wonderful, and I love meeting with them monthly to laugh and read and share and critique. When I lived 10 minutes from there (and my boyfriend’s apartment,… Read more
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best. error screen. EVER.
I just tried to visit the bookriot website and got this error screen. Squee! Read more
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navigating the closet
I’ve made a discovery. Background: I used to work out every day, sometimes more than once a day. I had a gym at work where I was allowed to take an hour for lunch (because I was a consistent top performer for years in a row) and go down to the gym for classes. The… Read more
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Er mah gehrd
Hwaet! I’m very excited about this: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/02/beowulf-online.html Old English is still my favorite dead language, even though I’m WAY out of practice in translating it, which in college I did for fun first and credit second. Oh how I fell in love with medieval language. So to see pages from Beowulf is a big deal.… Read more
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snow days and movie adventures
So here in Connecticut, we had quite the snowstorm Friday night. I’m lucky to live in a condo where I don’t have to do any shoveling, but it took the grounds guys all day to get everything plowed, shoveled and snowblowered (is that a word?) out. In the meantime, Matthew and I made a couple… Read more
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Leila A. M. Martin 