Category Archives: bad memories

Earthquakes: St. Louis and Japan: shaken, and stirred

Posted on June 11, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Last week we in St. Louis felt our second earthquake here – well, some of us. At 3:00 a.m., many were soundly in dreamland, but I was sitting on the bed getting ready to tuck in after staying up way … Continue reading →

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Picking on Joyce Carol Oates’s memoir

Posted on May 16, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

Oh, my. Julian Bond of the New York Book Review wrote of Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story that Oates should have told her readers she had remarried. What? But wait, Oates’s beloved husband of close to 50 years died … Continue reading →

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Bad memories and tornados – NaPoWriMo Day22

Posted on April 22, 2011 by moonbridgebooks

We’re pretty tired of big storms this spring. We’ve had a number of hail storms, and a tornado hit the airport area tonight – no one killed, but a loaded plane was lifted off the ground and the passengers couldn’t get off … Continue reading →

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