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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Oct 3, 2011 | Exercise, Uncategorized, Writing
At the beginning of 2011, I set out with some pretty specific goals for the year. I ran across a recent suggestion that people forgo the January New Year’s goals and resolutions in favor of a more broadened “year-in-review and goals adjustment” timed...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
We went to my nephew’s wedding in Atlanta last weekend. The time for when all our college contemporaries getting married has pretty much passed, and we are mostly going to weddings that are for folks who are work or family. It was interesting being a close...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 20, 2011 | Cooking, Uncategorized
Compared to fifty pounds of cucumbers, this singular colander of tomatillos did not seem like much of a project. Even after finding a recipe online that looked promising, and reading the ingredient list that would include eight cups of chopped onion, three cups of...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 16, 2011 | Uncategorized, Writing
It started on Monday when a blog titled “Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA.” (To unpack the acronyms…YA is “Young Adult” and the other is “Gay, Lesbian,Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer”) Basically,...
by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorized, Writing
Okay, go ahead and groan out loud. My mind is sort of mushy today due to the fact I spent most of it in a semi-comatose state with my arms wrapped around my sick son. There’s a lot of guilty pleasure in this. I mean, who really wants their child to be sick? Not...
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by Laurie Rockenbeck | Sep 12, 2011 | Food, Uncategorized, Writing
I just got back from Las Vegas and another writing conference yesterday. It was a tiring but rewarding weekend. I met dozens of people I’d heard of and whose work I had read. I also talked to umpteen editors and publishers–tossing around story ideas and...
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