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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story

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My mother had a garden. Having spent years in the city, where the only garden was taken care of by both her mother and father, she had greatly anticipated the move to the country, where her new house had a spacious yard and a large and vacant garden. Some of my earliest memories are of her kneeling by the flower beds at... More..

Entertainment > Music (Other) Is listening to music at work calming or distracting?

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For years I thought that listening to music at work would be a definite plus. Sometimes during school classes, ones that required a lot of studying from a book and not a whole lot of listening, certain teachers would let their students, including myself, listen to their walkmans. This was many years before tiny iPods and MP3 ... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: City living

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The CityWhere skyscrapers grow like blades of grass,From beds of cement not earth,And worms of steel and metal hurtle forward,Traveling underground unseen.No oxygen is given,Only air of gray to darken the lungs of,The tiny bustling ants that hurry with little purpose,Fearing that if they don't they will not survive.For where ... More..

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Blood Simple

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With a few drawled out words from a seedy detective named Visser (M. Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner, Ordinary People, Straight Time) the Coen brother's remarkable film Blood Simple takes its first celluloid steps. From Visser's first few words, giving us a brief hint of what is to come, we find Bar worker Ray (John Getz) drivin... More..

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