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300 WORDS:  The Incredibles

8/4/2013

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I love my first sip of coffee in the morning.  I love teaching Pilates. 
I love being a student of almost anything.   I love sparkly jewelry that doesn’t cost much. 
I love Jane Austen books, but I really love Jane Austen movies. I love watching those movies when
everything else in life is so upside-down and unpredictable because, in the movies, everything is going to be okay – the Dashwood sisters get theirs, as do the Bennet sisters and Anne Elliot.

I don’t understand avarice.  I understand even less the desire for fame for the sake of fame.

I love black and white movies.  The Big Sleep, Casablanca, Manhattan.  The lack of color imparts both
a softness and an edge, especially to the characters.  Would Elsa or Mrs. Rutledge have been so compelling in color?   Well, probably.

I hate sweeping generalizations.  I hate neighborhood associations which dictate mailbox colors and the
disallowing of tree houses.

I love Halloween.  I love dressing up.  My favorite is still when Mike and I and Noelynn and Ian were The
Incredibles.  I love Mike, Noelynn, and Ian.

I love sweating when I’m exercising.  I hate sweating when I’m not.  I love my cat,
even though he bites my legs and the legs of my friends who look after him when I’m out of town.

I hate when things get caught on other things.  Like when the blow dryer cord gets caught on the drawer handle and when I yank it free, the drawer comes out and falls on my toes.   That happened recently.  I hated that. 
 
I love to drink water, but hate being in water.  I love that I finally learned how to swim, but I hate swimming.  

I love writing these 300 words, and I really love the fact that you read them.

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Noelynn
8/5/2013 03:28:39 am

I loved dressing up as The Incredibles too! We have that picture up on the fridge and Davis loves to hold it and look at it. Time after time he asks us why he wasn't able to dress up with us. After trying to delicately explain the whole " you weren't born yet" situation - we always settle on: OK then, Momma and Davis were at home sleeping that night and Davis will dress up with the Wrays soon. I (we) love Sema, Mike and Ian.

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    I was born in Oswego, NY, 
    a very cold place from which 
    I fled in 1988.  I graduated from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with a 
    BA in English, and have 
    worked in marketing and communications in  North Carolina and Virginia. I have lived in Richmond, since 1996, and even though I am not from from here, I am home here.  

    "I had always wanted to be a writer, but was impeded by the belief that to be a writer one had to be extraordinary, and I knew I wasn't.   By the time I was ready to give up my academic career I had realized that while books are extraordinary, writers themselves are no more or less special than anyone else."     The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
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