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My Own Stories
Lou Nell Gerard
June 27, 2015
A yard in mourning The larches have donned their summer green Beneath, the soil peers sadly through weeds The grass, outgrown its short pants Waves dryly in the breeze Invades the flowerless beds Two short tracks where mowing began Interrupted…
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Lou Nell Gerard
March 27, 2015
How many visitors and relocated folk have I told “You can always tell a non-native on a rainy day: they are the ones carrying an umbrella.”? Countless times. I was born and grew up in Port Angeles, Washington. For those…
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Lou Nell Gerard
March 14, 2015
A steady rain fell on Chateau St. Michelle winery. Despite it being summer it was also the Pacific Northwest. A fine outdoor concert venue and the show was going to go on…that’s what we do here, were the rain to…
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Lou Nell Gerard
February 20, 2015
Running late for the 7:44 245 Pants on backwards Too late to change Juggling umbrella, gloves, earbuds, iPhone, Backpack An attempt to put the left hand glove On the right Miraculously don’t lose anything On the fast tromp down the…
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Lou Nell Gerard
February 8, 2015
Beware the list. Be it mental or written the list can become your own personal snatcher and jailor. It demands more and more of your time and attention, takes bites out of your joie de vivre and spits them out,…
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Lou Nell Gerard
January 24, 2015
Well the first days are the hardest days don’t you worry anymore ‘Cause when life looks like easy street there is danger at your door. Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter (1970). This first line from Grateful Dead’s “Uncle John’s Band”,…
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Lou Nell Gerard
November 23, 2014
Willow willow has wept its last Companions, Partners in greenery Gone Pronounced guilty in the first degree The claw comes down Judge jury executioner Willow willow has wept its last Not diseased, not yet, Nor dead, nor rotted Nor in…
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Lou Nell Gerard
July 26, 2014
Dashiell Hammett along with Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain are considered founders of hard-boiled detective fiction. It is no surprise that many of their novels became popular movies, often quoted, that continue to delight us. What sets these writers…
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Lou Nell Gerard
June 15, 2014
I’ve always wanted to write. When I was little, before I knew the alphabet, I scribbled many a “letter” to to my Uncle Buddy and I’m quite sure that between these letters I must have created a great American baby…
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Lou Nell Gerard
June 5, 2014
Selecting a book is a sort of alchemy. First, something compels me to pick it up. That may be a great title, a strange title, a compelling title, an enigmatic title, a just plain weird title. It could be an…
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