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Mylene Dressler's Blog – July 2010 Archive (4)
On Words, Work and Jerry McGuire
This is the time of year when I begin prepping my speeches and lectures for the fall. Some of these are on topics related to writing and creativity; but others I write for those who don't generally have the luxury of sitting down for any length of time and thinking about how they might use language more effectively, more powerfully, more satisfyingly in their lives--people who don't often get to explore and experience their own, creative relationship to words (as we writers are so fortunate to… Continue
Added by Mylene Dressler on July 26, 2010 at 9:04am — No Comments
The Cut
She cuts my hair.
Her own is a starburst of magenta and yellow, fireworks on display. It must be fun, every morning, I think, to stand your hair up on end. It must make you feel constantly surprised.
We talk. She cuts my hair whenever I'm in town, and though months pass before we see each other again, we always pick up as though she's just dunked my scalp under water the day before. We talk about our work and travels, we gossip about celebrities, we mourn or praise the… Continue
Her own is a starburst of magenta and yellow, fireworks on display. It must be fun, every morning, I think, to stand your hair up on end. It must make you feel constantly surprised.
We talk. She cuts my hair whenever I'm in town, and though months pass before we see each other again, we always pick up as though she's just dunked my scalp under water the day before. We talk about our work and travels, we gossip about celebrities, we mourn or praise the… Continue
Added by Mylene Dressler on July 22, 2010 at 12:51pm — No Comments
On Self-Indulgence
Let's see, friends, if I can write about this topic without feeling, well, self-indulgent.
Of all the bugbears and boogeymen I carry around as a writer, there is, I think, none that plagues me so much as my terrible worry that my writing will wallow in its own conceits. You know (some of you at least) what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the writing you produce that is more about itself than it is about communicating with another human being. Those words you set down that are… Continue
Of all the bugbears and boogeymen I carry around as a writer, there is, I think, none that plagues me so much as my terrible worry that my writing will wallow in its own conceits. You know (some of you at least) what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the writing you produce that is more about itself than it is about communicating with another human being. Those words you set down that are… Continue
Added by Mylene Dressler on July 8, 2010 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments
Small-Town Fourth
We got to the park just after the parade of water and fire trucks and decorated bicycles had gone around its small green square. Uncle Sam, his top-hat made of something soft, like the coat of a stuffed animal, waded in his long striped pants through the grass. The water trucks had snugged up close to the curb, under the cottonwoods, and their giant hoses were now feeding the white slip 'n' slide the children were screaming and hurtling their bodies over. The park's pool has been closed all… Continue
Added by Mylene Dressler on July 3, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments
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