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ophelialaughs

Notes from the Shadows

...creamed scorn served daily...

Name:
Holly
Location:
Springfield, Ohio, United States
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amateur photography, anne kelleher, blogs, books, cemetery walks, chocolate, coffee, colin mochrie, comedy, computers, cookout food, dandelions, elizabeth berg, ending prohibition, era, fiction, freecycle, freedom of speech, going barefoot, gray areas, house m.d., icons, jellybeans, kazoo, liberty, libraries, life, livejournal, lost, making do, movies, ohio, people, play, post-apocalypse fiction, predators, pursuit of happiness, quickpad, reading, speculative fiction, stephen king, stories, story telling, sun tea, television, thrift stores, tolerance, tulip trees, vhs, writing, x-files, zombies
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 Introduction

I am a forty-something writer, living with my husband, youngest daughter, two puppies, and an enormous cat in southwest Ohio.

We live just about a twenty minute drive from the teensy town where I was born and raised by my parents, a liberal college girl and a die hard redneck conservative member of the NRA.  They are still together.  I secretly think if they can get along, anyone ought to be able to.

I welcome open-minded new friends of just about every stripe.  If you are an adult human who blogs in English, who is not using a script to add eighty blue jillion strangers, and if you demonstrate a rudimentary command of that basic but nearly obsolete skill called manners, I will certainly add you back and gladly.

As of March 2008, this journal uses security filters. Writing entries are public, while the slightly more personal material is now friends-locked, with a special filter in place for times I need to share unpublished writing without compromising the rights to it.

Rating applies to public entries only and is subject to change without notice.



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Favorite Quotes

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
~H.G. Wells

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
~Elizabeth Drew

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

A metaphor is like a simile. 
~Unknown





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