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no, colette

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", character, life, love on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

When I was a younger woman, I read Colette’s two Cheri novellas and was so disturbed by them I read them several times, trying to understand what bothered me. Having just seen the movie by Stephen Frears with Michelle Pfeiffer as the aging courtesan, now I do. The movie has only a barest trace of [...]

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listen

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", life, love on June 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Honey, I didn’t come here to stay. 
 
That rock solid wisdom lessens the wistfulness of last week’s blog. The speaker is in her 80s, has buried a husband or two, seen a child die,but remains grounded in her faith and her family. She isn’t afraid to die. 
 
Why do I forget that with arrival, there is departure, [...]

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tick tock

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", family, life, love on June 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

My mother is a fine old clock wound up by the Infinite’s touch once and only once, and the hour hand on the face of her life is slowing. The heart aches as the daughter in me sees feet shuffle, words disappear, lips tremble when she sips tea. And it aches for my incomprehension of the [...]

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the end thus far

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", character, fiction, historical fiction, life, love, romance writing, writing, writing process on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Well, I’ve gone and done it, really finished the manuscript, after two weeks of literally rewriting the ending chapter every day. Parts of the book read as smooth as glass, a good sign, but I dragged my feet at the first signal I might really finish, only to find day after day that I was [...]

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