Tag Archives: words

WORDS=SELF-CARE

Posted on March 25, 2020 by GirlZoot

It is clear that more time alone and more time at home are not what was keeping me from writing. Fear. Fear is clearly what has been keeping me from writing. I am not even certain that what I am … Continue reading →

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rolling dumpster fire of doom

Posted on November 1, 2017 by GirlZoot

I’m sitting here in my newly cleaned office. I can smell the gooshy cat food I gave my fuzzballs earlier this evening and I can hear my mother blowing her nose downstairs. I may or may not be avoiding getting … Continue reading →

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There is a squirrel in a tree looking up at me, the tastiest nut he could ever see.

Posted on September 21, 2013 by GirlZoot

There are faces and names and they swim in and out. I think descriptions at them to try and keep them separate in my head. So many have children. So many have hopes. So many have lives. We all have … Continue reading →

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Just a Thought

Posted on August 23, 2013 by GirlZoot

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Tired

Posted on July 10, 2013 by GirlZoot

Is editing re-writing, re-imagining, or just a stabbing and draining of words?

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Just a Thought

Posted on June 29, 2013 by GirlZoot

She said, “We knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who we were, and why we were here, and what we said and did and thought and … Continue reading →

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Stacks of Books

Posted on June 28, 2013 by GirlZoot

Today was technology. I’m amazed and fascinated by the perseverance of stories, and the way that technology continues to bring stories to us as people.  I love books, I really love the way books smell and feel.  But I mostly … Continue reading →

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Just a Thought

Posted on June 21, 2013 by GirlZoot

She had read that word, ergo, in a novel she’d been reading. That was the first time she had used it. She wasn’t sure if she’d used it right, but it felt good. —Colin Meloy/Wildwood

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Just a Thought

Posted on April 6, 2013 by GirlZoot

The protagonist works in a government office, and I’m pretty sure his job is to rewrite words. Whenever a new history is written, the old histories all have to be thrown out. In the process, words are remade, and the … Continue reading →

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Words to Begin 2013

Posted on January 1, 2013 by GirlZoot

Old books. New ideas. Lots of words. First day of the year. You can begin anything anytime, it is all terribly arbitrary, but I plan on beginning today.

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