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In Which Charlie Rules the World

April 12, 2014
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Yes, I am a grown woman who sleeps with a teddy bear. In fact, that teddy bear is so famous, he’s in my professional author bio. “Born in Burlington, Vermont, Alethea makes the best baklava you’ve ever tasted and sleeps with a teddy bear named Charlie.” Today in USA Today’s Happy Ever After Blog, Joyce Lamb interviewed a bunch…

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The Lost Art of Everything

April 10, 2014
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I’m over at the Waterworld Mermaids today discussing the Lost Arts of the Twenty-First Century…like handwriting, phone etiquette, and some other fun things I stumbled upon while doing an internet search that I never would have considered. http://waterworldmermaids.com/2014/04/the-lost-art-of-lost-arts/ What do you think is becoming a New Lost Art?

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National Poetry Month, Day 9

April 9, 2014
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I memorized this poem in the 9th grade, by singing it to myself. Ah, Poe. My emo high school boyfriend. Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe It was many and many a year ago,    In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know    By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she…

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National Poetry Month, Day 8

April 8, 2014
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I thought this poem particularly appropriate for this year, with its particularly loooong winter. A Wintry Sonnet A Robin said: The Spring will never come, And I shall never care to build again. A Rosebush said: These frosts are wearisome, My sap will never stir for sun or rain. The half Moon said: These nights are fogged and slow,…

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Alethea Reads “Abigail”

April 8, 2014
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Yup…I can already tell this month is going to be insane, and all of my best laid plans are…well…I’m just going to have to allow them to go astray if and when they need to. In the meantime, I still have many fun things for you! Like this one — i which I read Hunter Grey’s horror fantasy story…

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AK April Appearances

April 8, 2014
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Hello, everybody! I’m trying to squeeze everything in before I hie myself back to Florida at the beginning of May…so if you can make it to any of these VA/MD appearances, I would *love* to see you! 14 — WBN reception, Cascades Library, 7pm 16 — WBN reception, One More Page Books, 7pm 17 — Maryland Romance Writers meeting…

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National Poetry Month, Day 5

April 5, 2014
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I haven’t memorized this one yet in its entirety…but I will someday. Its cadence entrances me. anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did Women and men(both little and small)…

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