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mid-July news: Kirk, Somlo

07/21/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Hey there—hope you're having some summer fun. For summer reading you might want to check out two recent publications by Kathleen Kirk.  She has a poem “We, the Impressionable” in One, which is a project by  by Jacara Press, "a community active press." Also she has “Laundering Instructions” in Right Hand Pointing, a digital publication featuring "Short, poetry, short fiction and short art" for the past ten years. Patty Somlo has a story “The Moment I Parted the … [Read more...]

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Sharon Fiffer “Losing and Finding”

07/21/2014 By Ellen Beals 1 Comment

Losing and Finding Someone close to me suffered a loss. A real one. It’s something that, without question, will impact her life forever. What do we do when that happens to people we love? We offer our company, maybe some food, a shoulder to cry on, a listening ear, an open heart. We also share their rage and sense of injustice. Life didn’t keep its promise! We, too, raise our fists and shout and cry. We also offer platitudes, easy phrases that someone might have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: Anthology, Collecting, Ellen Wade Beals, Grief, Jane Wheel, Sharon Fiffer, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Weighed Words

Glimpse of Solace: From the river

07/21/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

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Slice of Solace: Scott Turow

07/21/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

“I mean look, what are we here for? To love people and help them. That about sums it up, right? To love and be loved and to be helpful to humanity in general.”   Scott Turow, as quoted in “Scott Turow gets personal: The unsolved North Shore murder behind new book, his fight with Amazon” by Robert K. Elder in Evanston Review … [Read more...]

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Glimpse of solace: Heart of the matter

07/08/2014 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

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