Alzheimer’s, my mother and my future novels

May 28, 2013 in Kathleen Kern Author

This year has been one of “lasts” regarding my mother. I drove the seven hours from Rochester, NY to Northwest OH…

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You don’t just show up on race day and run a full marathon without training. You’re not likely to be able to finish, and it would be both painful and unhealthy.

Rather than reaping the health benefits of regular running, you end up sore muscles, blisters, and maybe even stress fractures. We all know how it’s done: When preparing for a marathon, you start small and train over time, building to where you can take on hose 26.1 miles.

Likewise, it’s not healthy to go on large…

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Thanks to Suellen Zima, or the 'Middle-Aged Hummingbird' as she calls herself and also a regular contributor to WGT and a member of…

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Summer is officially over.

I guess I I still have the school calendar hard-wired in my brain, but summer always seems like a time for something great. The weather is beautiful, the days are longer. All that sunshine just does something to me.

As summer starts up, I get this sense that somehow, even though I don't get a summer break anymore, that I'm still going to have more time...time for something great. The beginning of summer triggers big dreams in me--all the books I'm…

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Inspiration

When I started really taking my creative writing seriously a few years ago, I engulfed myself in the online publishing community. I subscribed to a ton of blogs, followed publishing news and joined in some networks. One thing I could not find was a literary publication that resonated for me.

There were a lot of reasons for this. Partly, I am not sure I knew where to look. For whatever reason, they were not easy to find. A lot of the ones I came across…

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For all of you who are creative thinkers (and what writer isn't a creative thinker?)!  Do you sometimes have a hard time finishing the goals and dreams you think up or get stuck mid-project and don't know how to finish?  Well, here's a great practical, hands-on, visual way of simplifying those goals to doable tasks.   http://kristaenglish.com/beginning-to-end-turning-goals-into-done/ This…

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The Uniform Project is truly where fashion meets activism. It is an interesting project in that it took the deceptively simple challenge of wearing one black dress every day for a year and made it a metaphor that people could invest in - bringing kids the money they needed to go to school.…



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I've posted a response to the 20th #Trust30 prompt, a new Shadorma titled "The Seventh Day". 

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/06/poem.html

 

 

Imagine that you are asked to record a single second every day, and that you had to do this for an entire year. How would you decide what to document, how would you record it, what would your completed record of those 365 seconds look like, and what would be its purpose?

 

Here's what computer graphics artist and film director Cesar Kuriyama has to say about his One Second Everyday Project....…

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Context for this post: I recently joined the Shed Project over at one of my favorite blogs; www.binduwiles.com. The goal of the project is to shed anything that is unwanted in your life, from excess weight, to bad habits or stuff. About 200 people from all walks of life, have joined together in support of each other on the journey. The process of shedding brings up many emotions, and a few days ago, an event in my life,… Continue

Sometime last year, while reading Patti Digh's 37days blog, I came across a poem by Maya Stein that I loved and clicked over to her blog to read more about her. I've been "following" her ever since. Stein is now planning an intensive eight-week, 30-state traveling poetry project she's calling "Tour de Word" -- a project financed entirely with donations through Kickstarter. Today, I'm featuring a video that describes the project and provides resources for accessing Stein's enjoyable… Continue

I have received my new business license for the city of Virginia Beach, decided on a store location, and rounded up all the figures needed to submit my proposal to Kickstarter.



You can see the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc3UyJKUzog



If Kickstarter approves the project, it should be up in a few days. The plan is to open the doors November first.



I am looking to connect with authors of… Continue

I wanted to take a few moments and share with you all the news of my business project. I am giddy with excitement, and really think this will be a wonderful thing. I hope to be opening the doors in the beginning of November. Please read on, here is the outline of the business:



My goal is to create a community catering to readers and writers. At its heart is a bookstore, specializing in used books and featuring new work by independent, new and/or local authors. It will also be a… Continue

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