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Trudy wrote a new post 6 years, 8 months ago
At 7:40am, the streets of downtown Charlottesville are eerily quiet. If not for the barricades, it would be hard to believe these streets will soon teem with people: busloads of Nazis come for the Unite the Right […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 6 years, 10 months ago
by Mary Carroll-Hackett
I move too fast. Always have. I talk fast, walk fast, read quickly, even had to be taught as a child to slow down while eating, Mama saying things like It’s not a race, Mary, or You […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 6 years, 10 months ago
by Laura Marello
Many people knew him better and longer. Many can say more articulate things about his work. I always loved him so much. I remember many details of our ten months at the Fine A […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 6 years, 12 months ago
I talk to dead people. Oh, don’t get worried. It’s not like they talk back. Although, there was that time…
What I’m saying is that I have some graves that are my favorite haunts. (And just to be absol […]
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Trudy commented on the post, The Sudden Appearance of an Identical Twin 7 years ago
Susan,
what a romp through tropes–“The Sudden Appearance of an Identical Twin”
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 years, 3 months ago
I did the same thing in the first two minutes upon meeting her for the first time that I did while sitting with a friend of more than 20 years two days before. I cried. I felt humbled and felt the tears well up, […]
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Trudy commented on the post, A Brother's Revenge 7 years, 3 months ago
wow. what a nose for nuance!
I never connected the yellows…thanks, Sharon!
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 years, 3 months ago
This past week I had an unusual experience in a memoir class. Several of us had turned in an excerpt to be critiqued during class. The workshop leader asked another writer to read my excerpt aloud. We were not to […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 years, 5 months ago
The dogs at Chicago’s Belly Shack are the best. In the bare, post-industrial setting of this diner beneath the rumbling tracks of the L, you can get a Belly Dog loaded with egg noodles and pickled green papaya. A […]
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 years, 5 months ago
When I returned home from the grocery store a few weeks ago, in the Boonsboro neighborhood of Lynchburg, I looked up to see that my next-door neighbors’ shutters had been removed from the front façade of their ho […]
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Emily Littlewood and Trudy are now friends 7 years, 9 months ago
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 years, 9 months ago
A conversation with writer director Eleanor Gaver
I met Eleanor Gaver in a writing workshop in L.A. and we kept in touch after she and her husband and daughter moved to NYC. I knew she had recently finished a […] -
Trudy wrote a new post 7 years, 10 months ago
by Laura Marello
Three years ago I phoned Specialty Exterminators in Lynchburg. My side yard, viewed from my screened porch, was starting to look like a cheap horror movie: rats, mice, and baby mice, running from […] -
Trudy wrote a new post 7 years, 10 months ago
A few years back I took a trip to Texas with Bill Clinton. It was not a fun trip. Clinton is pathologically self-referential and by the time he’d repeated the phrase, “Let me tell you one more clever thing I said […]
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Valerie Sargent and Trudy are now friends 7 years, 10 months ago
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Trudy joined the group The Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
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Trudy and Elizabeth Howard are now friends 7 years, 11 months ago
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Suzanne Freeman and Trudy are now friends 7 years, 11 months ago
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Sharron Singleton and Trudy are now friends 7 years, 11 months ago
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Trudy wrote a new post 7 years, 11 months ago
By Laura Marello
Imagine that, 20 years ago, my father and I were visiting my sister in her apartment. It was a warm, sunny day. My sister was making us ice tea. I was sitting in the living room with my […]
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