Ms. H, you're a gem. Many thanks.
Walking I get. But power walking? Why not just run for a shorter time?
Angel ,'Time Bomb'
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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Consuela - Mar 08, 2003 10:43:45 pm PST #809 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
deborah grabien - Mar 08, 2003 10:45:09 pm PST #810 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Yeah, OWWW. It hurts sometimes
(giggling)
"Mothers Opposed to the Occult. MOO. Nice acronym, Mom!"
(sorry, I simply couldn't help that.....)
erikaj - Mar 09, 2003 12:02:43 pm PST #811 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Or like in White Teeth by Zadie Smith where the Islamic radical group is "KEVIN" and everyone says "We have an acronym problem." I love that book but hate Ms. Smith as she has published a best-seller and she is 26. :)
Betsy HP - Mar 09, 2003 12:08:49 pm PST #812 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Comfort yourself with Harriet Dorr, whose first novel, "Stones For Ibarra", was published when she was 74.
I do.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2003 12:12:16 pm PST #813 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, ok. And Frank McCourt.
Consuela - Mar 09, 2003 12:32:35 pm PST #814 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And Theodora Kroeber.
Betsy HP - Mar 09, 2003 12:35:19 pm PST #815 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Is that Ursula K. LeGuin's mom? Did she start late as an anthropologist?
Consuela - Mar 09, 2003 12:39:20 pm PST #816 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
She started late as a writer. She wrote "Ishi in Two Worlds" when she was well into her fifties, and went on to write several other books.
LeGuin thinks it's a shame she waited so long to start writing, but she did write, and "Ishi" has been in print nonstop for what, 40 years? It's pretty much read by every kid to graduate from the California public school system.
Betsy HP - Mar 09, 2003 12:46:58 pm PST #817 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
The thing is, it's possible some people aren't ripe earlier. "She was always a great writer" is something you can't know. Maybe she was right in thinking she didn't have anything to say... yet.
Consuela - Mar 09, 2003 12:49:45 pm PST #818 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I tend to agree with you, Betsy. OTOH we don't know if Kroeber wasn't ripe yet, or was held back from writing because it wasn't the sort of thing a mother in the early part of the century did.