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Category: Life Today

Dress with Character

It has often occurred to me that the dress style where I live now is basically a no-style style. I find most attire that I see on the street to have a certain flair that makes me happy. But it would be impossible to define the local style because it seems to be whatever the … Continue reading Dress with Character

Posted on March 14, 2023 by laurisburnsPosted in Life TodayLeave a comment

The Azaleas Always Bloom

The Azaleas Always Bloom

March 13, 2023: So I just came across this thing I wrote on April 16, 2021! Apparently I was venting to myself but was in no mood to post it anywhere at the time. Gene departed this world, leaving a huge blank space where he had been, only five months after I wrote this. Looking … Continue reading The Azaleas Always Bloom

Posted on March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 by laurisburnsPosted in Life TodayLeave a comment

Coffee Shop Characters

Coffee Shop Thoughts How much can you know about a person from observing their footwear, I wonder. It looked like half the patrons of my favorite coffee shop today wore boots. Not cute little fashion boots, but the heavy kind that you would wear for serious winter hiking or certain manual labor jobs. These were … Continue reading Coffee Shop Characters

Posted on March 13, 2023 by laurisburnsPosted in Life TodayTagged CoffeeShops, WritingPlaces. Leave a comment

River Stories

River Stories

It's been a while! Nine months ago, I thought I was ready to start submitting 'River Stories' to agents. Then life happened. And death. Meanwhile I've finally been able to put some final touches on the manuscript. I feel like it's a very solid story and this week I have actually been submitting queries - … Continue reading River Stories

Posted on March 22, 2022 by laurisburnsPosted in Life Today, Writing1 Comment

Sitting Around on Porches

Sitting Around on Porches

There's a reason, I tell her, why I don't live in the most beautiful place in the world any more. So many memories. Like most good experiences, the years can erase the bad parts. Or if not erase, maybe at least blur them to a comfortable haze. So many memories are centered around transportation on … Continue reading Sitting Around on Porches

Posted on April 26, 2018March 22, 2022 by laurisburnsPosted in Life Today, My Island, Prior LivesLeave a comment

Who Is She?

Writer, reader, traveler, political junkie, foodie, photographer wannabe, multi-topic ranter and raver, social animal, secret introvert, believer in the power and passion of human beings to create a better worldWoman with book

Categories

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  • Prior Lives (9)
    • Latin America (2)
    • My Island (3)
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    • The South (2)
  • Writing (8)

Writer Friends

Jess Federle

Sara A Fajardo

Kathi Huber

Rose Mary Boehm

Dina Towbin

Alison Light

Krystal Mercer McLellan

Judy Griffith Gill

Writers’ Retreat at Ricardo Palma House

Jess – La Colorada

Literary Quotes

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random Quotes

“I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid. Now it’s time for you to build on it. Now, it’s your turn. Get to work.” Amelia Boynton Robinson,          Civil Rights Activist, 1911 – 2015

More of My World

Photography-Speechless in Peru

Travel & Food

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My Tweets

North Carolina Authors

  • Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
  • Raney by Clyde Edgerton
  • A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
  • Where Trouble Sleeps by Clyde Edgerton
  • Nermina's Chance by Dina Greenberg

Kids' Books I'm Reading

  • Air by Monica Roe
  • Wish by Barbara O'Connor
  • Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
  • Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Beverly, Right Here, by Kate DiCamillo
  • Louisiana's Way Home, by Kate DiCamillo

Videos I've Watched Recently<br>

  • Reversing Roe
  • Queen of Katwe
  • A Most Beautiful Thing
  • Uncle Frank
  • Hillbilly Elegy
  • The Queen's Gambit
  • La Bamba
  • 13th
  • The Half of It
  • Fargo
  • Schitt's Creek - Series
  • Orange is the New Black - Series

That’s My Boy!

A chip off of which block? I love that when I tell my son that I’m going to Arequipa, he doesn’t ask where is it or why but says “Wow! It looks like a great place. And they have incredible food. I just googled it.”

Where Do They Hear This?

Dad0MmRUwAAOmGC

Phones are not the problem. pic.twitter.com/PueOw9YVgO

— Oppositionista (@BlueWaveYes) April 11, 2018

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