Category Archives: words

Day 29, NaNoWriMo – What’s That I Hear?

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Yes folks it was the NaNoWriMo crew applauding and cheering on my superpowers of writing and telling me I’m their hero because: I’m ripping open my winner shirt as we speak. I like all of them although my particular favorite … Continue reading →

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Then and Now – Gettysburg and Beyond

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Looking back,I first posted these words here in 2015 after an incident in Baltimore triggered violence and looting. I reposted them two years later, a month after this president took office and thinking about what it means to be American … Continue reading →

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Stories 

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and look out through other eyes. You get to feel … Continue reading →

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Starting April*

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

This came up as a memory and one that’s good to recall. These days we need all the encouragement we can get.  I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone … Continue reading →

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For the quote box – why poetry?

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

I do not believe that a violent imitation of the horrors of our times is the concern of poetry. Horrors are taken for granted. Disorder is ordinary. People in general take more and more “in their stride” — the hides … Continue reading →

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