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Love and Death

March 17, 2022April 25, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 18 Comments

A friend died this week. One moment she was living life deeply and the next unable to speak or move. The suddenness was jarring, and it knocked me back a bit. The odd thing was that we'd never actually met, at least not in person.

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Washington On Your Side

March 9, 2022April 30, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 15 Comments

Washington in February may have been a misguided vacation plan. Sub-freezing temps, every layer of clothing I own, more miles of walking and more sitting in the car than is good for me - I kept hearing Little Feat's Old Folks Boogie: "And you know, that you're over the hill, when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill."

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Sweeping Up

January 6, 2022April 30, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 15 Comments

I've been using a mental whisk broom to collect my 2021 details into a tidy pile. I look them over, and then… what? Resolve to do better, repeat what works, lose my frantic grip on what doesn't? It was the worst of times, but it was also the best.

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Writing Like Heaven

November 23, 2021April 26, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 14 Comments

It's NaNoWriMo time (National Novel Writing Month) this November! I signed up to write a 50,000 word first draft of a book along with hundreds of thousands of other crazy people around the world. That's 1,667 words per day, for those of you doing the math.

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The Final Word on the Absolute Very Best Time To Write

August 5, 2021April 30, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 6 Comments

Haruki Murakami wakes at 4am to write, without variation. Hemingway wrote as soon as it got light. Vonnegut started at 5:30am.... Since successful writers have set routines unique to them, there must be an optimal time for me as well....

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Remembering

July 22, 2021April 26, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 11 Comments

Remembering, forgetting, sleep, no sleep, letting go, understanding, not understanding, the horizon in front of me....

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52 Steps to Becoming a Writer

March 30, 2021April 30, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 18 Comments

Anyone can become a writer. It hasn't been a straight path or an easy journey for me. But here are 52 steps that will get you on your way.

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Round in Circles

January 26, 2021April 18, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 10 Comments

Here I go walking in circles again. If it's not one direction out my front door, it's the other, always in circles, round and round the neighborhood, looping past the same houses, same yards, same trees.

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What Am I Rooting For?

October 2, 2020April 19, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 10 Comments

I am too quick to anger, too prone to tears, trigger happy and ready to hate, scorn, and yes, wish ill to those who ascribe to viewpoints I see as harmful to people, to our nation, and the world at large.

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Checking In

April 10, 2020April 18, 2022 / Nancy Friedland / 12 Comments

What will be my Quarantine Story, what tales will I tell in five years, or 10 or 20? Will it be a story of victory or sadness, revelation or survival, entertainment or boredom, or even joy? Which stories will last, and which will be of the moment?

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