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  • I’ve just read all the comments here with my hands shaking and my stomach churning the...held about my mother and my own origins since childhood. Hmm, yup, whiny brat mode achieved… but seriously, I th...
  • Sorry, I did mean to, but I enjoyed reading this post...I even smiled a couple of time...of the rewriting and the waste of time and energy. So this way..in slow motion mode...even before I can start fee...
  • When not on sabbatical, I work for a human rights organization and edit news releases...Indigenous communities.  I sometimes go into what I call "cold-hearted editor mode" where I'm only thinking abou...
  •  Signing on with She Writes Press recently put me the publication-panic mode.  I blogged about it at http://maryh...
  • Michele, this morning I listened to the teleconference phone call you posted on your c...women's studies at Georgia State University (1998) and going into a different mode of my life. Now I have discov...
  • Thank you, Helen. I long to exit from reception/anxiety mode--and am trying to concentrate on kind words from friends... It's definitely a mug's game to be so hooked to the marketplace--when the...
  • I kept diaries and journals for years...and then I started blogging. For about six yea...ng. It's great to have a place for my stream of conscience, and to get me in a mode to write what will be seen by...
  • I believe that part of the problem lies in the perception of the issue as a "block." I...ur subconscious, which happens more easily when the brain is in a more relaxed mode.
  • Wonderful essay!  I don't mind those 'on-the-spot' conversations.  Mama raised me to b...ay be completely different once I actually sell a book.  I could go into panic mode. But then... that's what the...
  • Julie-- As a college history major, I was also lamenting the loss of letters --- but, thanks to the NSA, maybe all those emails will be available ;-)  Just kidding, although I sometimes slip into letter writing mode in emails, my Millennial sons' emails can only be described as "terse".