Author Archives: aliceinbloggingland

About aliceinbloggingland

I am starting a blog in order to establish a regular writing habit, with readers. Enjoy!

Lena and Mama and cigarettes and beer

Posted on April 15, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

L and M It’s hard to write during a pandemic.  I am skipping days.  The deaths are getting closer.  A student’s grandmother.  A scholar I met last fall at a conference and have known in an online forum for years.  … Continue reading →

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K is for Knoxes

Posted on April 14, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

Kerro and I grew up playing cards, board games, pick up sticks, barrel of monkeys, you name it.  We are the two youngest siblings of four, and our older sisters weren’t that interested.  We were intensely competitive, which sucked for … Continue reading →

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J is for June and July

Posted on April 11, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

My birthday is the first day of June, the first day of what you might as well call summer, so what if it’s technically late spring, school is out or almost out, everything is green, you can wear shorts and … Continue reading →

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I is for Isabella

Posted on April 10, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

(appropriate because today is sibling day, according to Facebook) Isabella had me in her thrall for the first six years of my life, maybe longer.  I was honored when she allowed me in her presence.  My vision of us as … Continue reading →

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FGH Pandemic

Posted on April 9, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

F is for Fuck it G is for God make it stop H is for when the Hell will this be over? Early in the shelter at home phase I had two homes and was busily packing up one and … Continue reading →

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E is for Eliza

Posted on April 6, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

My inveterate journal keeping seems to have been passed down to my younger daughter.  In our recent move, I sorted through lots of stuff (SO MUCH STUFF) and found many pieces of art and writing by my children.  My favorite … Continue reading →

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D is for Damn it

Posted on April 4, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

I have been a slave to Facebook for a decade now, and have often thought I should pull back, but I never actually do.  I check it multiple times a day.  At first it was kittens and babies and reuniting … Continue reading →

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C is for Canoe

Posted on April 3, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

Star   In a canoe at night my grown-up daughter takes the stern her J-stroke confident.   In the middle we rest our paddles. The quiet fills with crickets and the small lapping of waves.   We crane at the … Continue reading →

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B2 Backwards

Posted on April 2, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

The theme of this month’s blogging challenge is Backwards and Forwards, because I like to look back and make sense of things, and I want to push myself to look ahead with hope instead of dread.  Hard to do in … Continue reading →

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B1 Alice Backwards

Posted on April 2, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

Excerpt from my memoir Look Her in the Eye I am sitting at my typewriter in an empty theatre, on the edge of the playing area.  This building was once a gymnasium, and I can barely see the ceiling, the … Continue reading →

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