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The Right Place at the Right Time
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There's nothing like being at your own book signing. I guess maybe it's just that I feel at home in my own skin as a writer. There were six authors on the balcony overlooking the first . . . more
My Book Signing in Poughkeepsie - Sat. Jan. 17th, 1:00-4:00 PM
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Stirling commented on the post One for the Road - Genre Shorties Prompt Week 16 by Guy W. Nov 22, 2009 6:41PM EST
Stirling replied to a comment by Ann M. (Site Scryer) on Between Us Nov 21, 2009 10:56AM EST
"Hope you manage to climb to the top, Aman. Thanks for your comments on the album. Such a good one." more
Stirling replied to a comment by Mike Ellwood on Between Us Nov 21, 2009 10:20AM EST
"Terrific comment! Thank you, Mike." more
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Describe Yourself:just another human being trying to get through life with a good balance of joy, honesty, serenity, encouragement, meaning, seriousness, creativity and above all kindness.
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On Gather, I'm Looking For ...:inspiration from other writers
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Favorite Music, Artists, Genres:old timey blues by mostly long-dead African Americans but not all dead and not all black, really fast banjo playing, Tibetan dranyen music (acoustic and I like the old folk songs the best), classical Tibetan dranyen, every kind of drum known especially tabla, classical sitar music and the oceanic Indian style of singing, real jazz especially vintage Miles Davis, Abdul Ibraham (formerly Dollar Brand), edgy folk music especially by Kevin So whose lyrics are great and whose voice is better
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Favorite Books, Writers, Genres:too many to list, but I'll name a few - Dune (read 7 times), To Kill a Mockingbird, Lost in Translation (not the movie--this one is about a woman in China), Sven & Svea or Tales of Lapland (out of print), Bangkok 8, Return of the King, A Gesture Life, Astralagus (in French), No Colder Place, The Incomparable Prince, millions more
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Colleges:like so many of my generation, I dropped out several times ... attended Randolph Macon Woman's College, Immaculata, Washington University, U. Mass Boston and SUNY Purchase.Major:
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High Schools:I was miserable in high school. I really only had one friend. He was a genius who played the piano and wrote his own symphonies, read Marx and Tolstoy on his own in 8th grade, and eventually got drafted and went to Viet Nam. I don't know where he is now but I heard he came back and was living in the Radnor Train Station playing music for the ballet. He was hopelessly in love with a blond sophomore who didn't know he existed. We were a lot alike in that sense because I was in love with a green-eyed athlete who married someone else. Anyway, high school was 50 years ago, so who cares?
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Aman V., Nov 20, 2009, 12:22PM ESTHa! The most important message made a no-show, so here I go twirling you around Gather again! hehehe

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Aman V., Nov 20, 2009, 12:20PM ESTHey Wood-sprite Stirl! Why're you all awhirl , girl?!! heheh
Been a long time for one of these twirly pearly ones, so I thought I'd drop one off below your bedroom window just when those lovely eyes were surrendering to slumber, Stirly.
I've missed you - looking at your page, seeing your posts...so
I promise I'lll come by on the weekend and read up a storm, okay? There's a truckload of your stuff I read a month back or so - and never commented.
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I've moved again - to a flat just opposite the previous one. Only the number of the apartment, and a few odds and ends inside it, have changed ... everything else remains as it was.
The bigger MOVE has taken place inside me, I think. It feels incredible to be at this place where I was quite serene and at peace within on the very first night in my new home.
Its never been that way - a move is the one change I've hated and resisted all my life - it used to upset me terribly, emotionally. I guess detachment from the surroundings is beginning to
tiptoe its way in, finally ...
How've you been? It must have gone pretty chilly there by now, I guess. You must be in your finest woolens and the teapot and the kettle must be working doubletime, eh? Such joys this
so called dreary and cold season brings, doesn't it, Stirly?!!
Will write a proper mail to you soon. Keep twirling that fertile pen of yours, my dear friend. We are all blessed to be amidst your writings.
Have a great weekend, mon cherie. Au revoir et a bientot.
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XOXOXO
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Liz [site-raven], Nov 19, 2009, 6:43PM ESTHi dear one please direct me to your blog. I lost it when I crashed.
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Stirling D., Nov 19, 2009, 7:57AM ESTThanks, Magi, for the compliment. I've always liked your icon, too ... the blue is so blue ...
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Magi the magical poet is riding the wind again , Nov 19, 2009, 5:21AM ESTThank you ever so much for your compliment on my photo essay.
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Kathryn E., Nov 5, 2009, 12:33PM ESTHi Stirling,
You have outside mail. I am off for most of the day. Life stuff. And away the weekend. -
Aman V., Nov 2, 2009, 9:18AM ESTWoweee! Thankee. Stirly - I got online, and had just left a comment on Kathsie's pic when I saw your ping. Just so excited now - I knew immediately what you meant, mon ami!
Thanks for the wish fulfilment! At first I thought it was in my mail, and was disappointed to see the bare-bones folder - but now I know it's for all Gather!
Going to read your story, and your dream (anew).... and hopefully, I'll be able to express what they make me see and feel. Such a joy to see you online just when I'm on, too - it's Communion time!
You're up early , BTW - what happened - did Halloween freak you out so bad you couldn't sleep?!!! hehehehe
Early Monday Hugs to you, mon cherie.
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Have a great day, and don't move around at your usual speed, okay? You could have a Twister in the office! hahahaha
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Aman V., Nov 1, 2009, 12:14PM ESTOh soiree, Mme., I dun foigot .... here's that wicked weed wheeze
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Happy Halloweening! Have you written that annual story yet? If you have, I hope I can get a sleek peek ....? :)
Buh Bye, Rum-and-Rye! ((((((((((StirFried)))))))))))
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Aman V., Nov 1, 2009, 12:07PM ESTAh, I'm just smokin'...hot! hahhahaha Thanks for "weeding'' out the essence of my nonsense and hurling it onto my pinger-ponger, Stirly. :)
Seriously, though, I'm always just high on life ... and was just trying to punch some much-needed wit and wordplay into my messages - I always feel they're so flat! :) Hope it didn't knock the sox off your imagination!
You wrote a wonderful comment to a wonderful, albeit chilly, post today Granny Janny's, I mean. I'll come by later and post my own comment - but wanted you to know I felt your comment somehow managed to measure up to the wonder and magic of Janny's poem and reading.
Thanks for the QuickDraw McGraw pingback, Stir-Fried!
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Aman V., Nov 1, 2009, 11:26AM ESTHellow Bellow, Mother-of-Stirl , mon cher Pearl .., err.. did I get something wrong there , or what?!!! Must be these trembling grays in the higher reaches - those banshees wailing and banging something terrible at my window last night scared the bejeesus outta me! hehehehe
So, let's have another go at the hurly burly words, uhh, meaning curly pearly words, okay?
Hellow Fellow, what a bellow you've got here, Fab Fairy Pearl...........
I give up. Make what you will of this stoopid cupid Halloween greeting, mon cherie.
But remember to remain scared, and keep writing with those gnarled, trembly fingers all the same - who knows what scary wary tale might erupt from the wells of that fevered mind of yours and witch-broom its way onto the pages of your next great story?!!
You always did spin a bewitching tale anyway, hon.
Buh Bye, sweetiepie, kissed the moon and made it fly..... hehehe
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