Woman As Art
A writer’s got to eat! Yes, the Old Soldier made it to the supermarket yesterday and he brought back some lean ground beef and a large onion, everything he needs to make a simple but tasty spaghetti sauce.
I keep boxes and packages of pasta and jars of spaghetti sauce stockpiled for emergencies. So, I have everything I need to make spaghetti today.
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Hello hello hello, everyone from all over the world! Summer is coming to an end here in Pittsburgh. The college students are moving into their dorms and the Old Soldier has only a few weeks left to clean his windows before the bad weather sets in.
I hope you’ve checked out the front page lately. Recently I took down some old stuff and put up new stuff from the archives. That’s what happens when your work is accepted for publication. It spends several weeks on the front page for maximum exposure and then it is brought back from the archives every so often for more exposure.
Submissions are still open for September. This magazine is a paying market.
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The Lazy Writer
Summer fades away
My windows are still dirty
Maybe tomorrow
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Flash Fiction, Rachel Carson And The Environment
English: Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. Official photo as FWS employee. c. 1940. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It has been years since the Old Soldier read Silent Spring. So, this afternoon when I walked down to the public library to return a book on the history of the Italian city of Venice, I could not help but to scoop up Rachel Carson, Witness For Nature.
The biography, written by Linda Lear and published in 1997, was on the shelf that the library uses to showcase different books in circulation.
It’s a glorious fall day in Pittsburgh today. It’s mild (61) and sunny. College students were everywhere. The Old Soldier felt happy and young.
Well, the book on Rachel Carson is a fat one, over 600 pages if you count the end notes.
So, I will be reporting off and on about what I read about this great woman. If you don’t realize that we are poisoning this planet that sustains us, that we are entering a critical phrase for the continuation of our species, you haven’t been paying attention.
Douglas’s review contributed to the success of Silent Spring, an important turning point for the environmental movement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is the Old Soldier reporting from Pittsburgh.
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