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"I think you can mine everyday experience deeply and it will give you rich rewards."

I couldn't agree more. There is, however, a particularly virulent strain of writer's block directly related to everyday experience. One can get so caught up in the rush and whirl of everyday experiences that one is left without time to write about, or even think about, what's happening. I've found that I can't write about the everyday unless and until I step back from it.

P.S. I've always thought of you as a sung blogger.

Richard Ames

Okay, sure, "There are stories and glimpses of life everywhere." That still doesn't alleviate the need to discriminate as to what might interest readers. This is not an accusation as I think you discriminate well. I’m only saying that just because the world is full of stuff doesn’t make stuff automatically very compelling, at least to many people. Even good writing can’t alter bad stuff.

I’ve read you for a long time and think the reason you never get Blogger’s Block is that your privacy threshold is very high. That is, you’re willing to write about, or at least intimate, what many folks would not write (or intimate) about themselves, and so people enjoy reading it, voyeur-like. (Isn’t that creepy.) It’s the way some people visit a daily soap, but without the usual violence and bloodshed.

l.

Just wanted to say I totally know what you mean about missing a summer romance, and wishing you didn't. I just ran into mine buying a burrito, of all things, and it about killed me. And I love the way you put it about their things in the dryer. It's so hard to find someone. Anyway, here's to happy memories - that have lost the sting.

turboglacier

His n' Hers mixed laundry, as a concept, is way overrated. Mainly, it just means that my fleece socks get filled with her hair, her stretchy underwear gets messed up because I put it in the dryer when it's not supposed to, my white shirt turns grey because she doesn't believe in separating colors from whites, one of her itty-bitty socks is missing because it was so small I thought it was a lint ball and threw it out, all my clothes smell foofy because she put in some sort of girly "drier sheet"... well, these are just illustrative examples. But there's a lot to be said for one man, one load (or one woman.)

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