Stain the Water Clear: A Collection of Rural Pen and Yankee Doodlin' Columns, 1993-2002iUniverse, 13.01.2003 - 218 Seiten For years, readers of Luanne Austins Rural Pen column in the Daily News-Record have been asking for a compilation of her work. Here it is. Stain the Water Clear is a collection spanning 10 years. Her first Southern Yankee writings focused on the transplanted life of a young woman who had moved from her native New York to the South. Yankee Doodlin' continued on this theme, but expanded to family life, relationships and meditations on life. Finally, the Rural Pen pieces are those of a writer who has found her voice, addressing a range of topics, from politics to religion, to love and womens issues, to meditations on nature and spirituality .The name of the column and this book come from William Blakes Songs of Innocence: And I made a rural pen, And I staind the water clear |
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... asked me to start writing them again, for pay. When I returned, I renamed the column “Yankee Doodlin',” which I felt would alert my old readers while freeing me to write on a broader range of topics. I'd exhausted the north/south issues ...
... asked me to start writing them again, for pay. When I returned, I renamed the column “Yankee Doodlin',” which I felt would alert my old readers while freeing me to write on a broader range of topics. I'd exhausted the north/south issues ...
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... asked for a book of my columns. While I was always flattered by this request, I did not want to end up with 1,000 books under my bed, pitifully peddling them at every public event I attended. So I procrastinated. Finally, it was time ...
... asked for a book of my columns. While I was always flattered by this request, I did not want to end up with 1,000 books under my bed, pitifully peddling them at every public event I attended. So I procrastinated. Finally, it was time ...
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... asked me, a bona fide, died-in-the-wool, arrogant, know-it-all Yankee, to sing? This was a most gracious gesture of Southern hospitality. “Can you play 'How Does It Feel to be One of the Beautiful People?'” I asked. This did not compute ...
... asked me, a bona fide, died-in-the-wool, arrogant, know-it-all Yankee, to sing? This was a most gracious gesture of Southern hospitality. “Can you play 'How Does It Feel to be One of the Beautiful People?'” I asked. This did not compute ...
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... asked for the dressing. For Aunt Joyce, appearances are everything. The family must maintain an aura of impeccability. Lacking that, we must have explanations, even if they are wrong. We have no skeletons. Heck, we don't even have ...
... asked for the dressing. For Aunt Joyce, appearances are everything. The family must maintain an aura of impeccability. Lacking that, we must have explanations, even if they are wrong. We have no skeletons. Heck, we don't even have ...
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... asked, “Rachel, can you rotate the layers in the oven in about five minutes and take them out at 11:40?” “No problem,” said Rachel. When I returned home, the storm door was propped open. Uh oh. Something had burned. One of the layers ...
... asked, “Rachel, can you rotate the layers in the oven in about five minutes and take them out at 11:40?” “No problem,” said Rachel. When I returned home, the storm door was propped open. Uh oh. Something had burned. One of the layers ...
Inhalt
19 | |
Of Humans and Being | 51 |
Christmas | 69 |
Things We Have Passed | 87 |
Am I in Sync? | 113 |
Body Language | 145 |
Through Darkness Up to God | 175 |
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