NOT KEEPING SCORE

I showed up the Penngrove Firestation, my polling place, in the early afternoon.
I was excited to vote. I’ve been largely undecided through the past few weeks, owing to my pervasive innate indecisiveness, but also to my mixed feelings about the candidate choices —
before Obama even decided to run, I was a fan. Ever […]

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See — life isn’t all doom and gloom: my cat Patches, at 16 years old, finally learned to use the litterbox! We celebrated this morning with an extra serving of Giblets & Gravy (for her) and freshly-brewed homemade Dong Quai tea (for me). Then I sat down to write.
It is precisely at this moment — […]

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Hey ya’ll.

New Year’s we had a gen-u-ine hoe-down in a friend’s barn: fire-pit, chili-dip, moonshine (yup, someone whipped up some homemade vodka), live band, keg, pig-tails and hay bales (actually, they were alfalfa, but who’s keeping score?)
Still recovering from the boot-stompin’, line-dancin’, free-wheelin’ good time; that, and the rain has me mesmerized. Stay dry, and […]

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Heading to Mendo to have a night off with Tha Gurlz (yes, I actually just spelled “girls” with a ‘z’) and then coming back in time to attend a real live Ho-Down (hot doggie: we have hay bales, a barn, and a live band) for New Year’s in my grand hometown of Penngrove.
In the meantime, […]

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Sometimes there is nothing to say. Sometimes there is nothing to write.
My brother died suddenly this past week.
He didn’t call Tuesday for my father’s birthday; I made a mental note to chide him when I saw him later that week. When Thursday arrived, I called to ask him when he thought he would make […]

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[Shannon dials A Friend’s number, who answers after 5 rings.]
Shannon [enthusiastically:] Happy Halloween!
A Friend: Um, yeah.
Shannon: I’ve made it through Israeli security, recovered from Dengue Fever, and am trudging through Jet Lag Supreme, but I’m BACK!
A Friend: …You were gone?
Shannon: Funny.
A Friend: No seriously, you took off somewhere? Were you on a trip?
Shannon: I went […]

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A typhoon hit the middle of the country and a bridge has collapsed in Southern Vietnam — however, luckily your humble NKS author remains unscathed, writing and thriving in Hanoi, Vietnam.
In fact, there is good news to report: today I got an email from a friend who noticed that a quote from my coverletter to […]

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Have flu. (Backlog of stories). Will post soon.
Please Keep Faith. (But never Score). -Shannon

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The SoCoCo Poetry reading went well. I’ve been asked to read at WordTemple November 9th (I’ll be sure to post a reminder as the date nears for all you rabid poetry fans.)
I’ve had excruciatingly little time to write, however. I leave for Israel in three days, afterwhich I am traveling for 2 & 1/2 months. […]

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Shannon would like to timidly announce her first “poetry” reading this Thursday, where she will be reading all-original, highly-amateuristic, and ever-questionable poems from her stint in Penngrove.
But seriously, I’m excited to be reading with some local poets and friends I’ve made while living in sleepy Sonoma County. I’ve learned so much about humility, the importance […]

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