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This photo is on my new link at Online Book Club (kindle shopping mall)

Hmm, I have no idea how to use this format but maybe I can do a quid-pro-quo or bribe someone to help me. I’m just getting started on marketing Notes on Serenity, even though it’s been out for over a … Continue reading

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Merimee’s blog on Notes on Serenity: An ABC of Addiction

What is this book? A thought that comes to mind almost daily, now that I’m selling it, giving it, launching it, asking it to run and play with the other books. I’m happy that’s it’s been released ( though I … Continue reading

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FEAR OF ALL FEARS

FOAF              FEAR OF ALL FEARS FOMO              FEAR OF MISSING OUT FOBO              FEAR OF BETTER OPTIONS FOGO              FEAR OF GOING OUT FOSH               FEAR OF STAYING HOME FUBAR            FUCKED UP BEYOND ALL REPAIR (VINTAGE, wordy) FOGL               FEAR OF GETTING LAID FOBU              FEAR OF … Continue reading

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About Notes on Serenity: An ABC of Addiction

About Notes on Serenity I was seventeen when I started writing my feelings whenever I had paper and a writing utensil. Following my counter culture decade and the hard scrabble years, I had a teaching career devoted to literature and … Continue reading

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For Eleanor NaPoWriMo #24

For Eleanor, a confabulation of stories April 23, 2018 by merimee   She really did look pretty with the angora shawl arranged around her turquoise top It brought out the blue in her eyes that must’ve made many a man … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo #19

So what the fuck has kept me alive these 72 years? well, almost 72, come Gemini time My husband?  the one who anchors? makes us eat makes me love him even if our love is like a staring match Hah! gothcha—you … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 18

Those paths you’d rather not take?   Well, someone’s on them. A woman in a fake hospital, a medical money collecting agency that squeezes every dime out of crime against the ill: negligence, incompetence unkind roughness—lifting my friend by her … Continue reading

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Nonsense NaPoWriMo 11, 12, & 13

Nonsense “Ensanguine,”he said. We wanded fingers over personal screens: “To make bloody or crimson.” Those crimson sheets and panties, all-engulfing sex, life gulping reason, dying for thirst. Drink my blood, look, slowly now, then, in lusty crayon crimson. Optimistic, really, … Continue reading

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Embrace #8 NaPoWriMo 2018

Embrace an English teacher today. At least think about it: her eyes like dos puntos: period period.. His member an exclamation incarnate! The vehicle of Interjections! Speculate on ellipses and spaces: drafting, practice, practice. Imagine an English teacher, Mr. So … Continue reading

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#5 & # 6 NaPoWriMo 2018

#5 & #6                        April 6, 2018  mm The year of my first daughter, Jorie Graham’s Erosion— I still have little time to read the stacks and piles, glean an education that in the end does not surpass the births, … Continue reading

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