What’s on YOUR Bucket List? Here’s Mine (Part Two)

Last Friday I posted the first several items in my alphabetical bucket list. Today, I’ll share the rest of the list with you. First, here’s an excellent post from a site called Raptitude: getting better at being human about how to create a bucket list filled with things that you really have the intention of…

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What’s on YOUR Bucket List? Here’s Mine (Part One)

I’ve been doing some dreaming about things I’d like to do some day — thinking about my Bucket List, if you will. Most people have encountered the term, which simply means a list of the things you’d like to do or accomplish at some point in your life. Full disclosure — I’ve never seen the…

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A Word With Beth — About Well-Meant Words

Instead of a grammar post today, this will be a bit of a rant, but hopefully a gentle, thoughtful rant. There’s a phrase that bothers me every time I hear it. I know what is meant by it, but still it bothers me. Very often, people who work for a cause with great dedication are…

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Which Films Were They? (the answers from Friday’s Film Fun)

  Last Friday, as you know, I posted a fun list of movie quotes from a few of my favorite movies. In case there were a few you couldn’t name, here is the list again, with the movie’s title, and the actor/character who is quoted.   1. “Never assume.” Spencer Tracy as Richard Sumner in…

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Film Fun for Friday

One of the gifts of the holiday season — if we gift ourselves with the time for it — is just having fun. And so today’s post is just for fun. Several years ago I enjoyed a meme on my friend Brian Sibley’s blog, in which Brian posted pictures of scenes from 31 of his…

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“The Drama Notebook” — interview on The Starborn Revue

Hi, all — instead of an interview here today, I’d like to point you over to The Starborn Revue where I interviewed Janea Dahl, founder of a fantastically empowering drama resource, Drama Notebook. I hope some of you will take a look — Janea does wonderful work! Here’s the link: http://www.elizabethstarborn.com/in-the-spotlight-janea-dahl-drama-notebook/ Enjoy!

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The Once and Future King by T.H. White — Radio Dramatization

My friend Brian Sibley — who is a journalist, historian, expert on many different writers, and an amazing radio dramatist/playwright — has dramatized (dramatised with an “s” for Britons like Brian) T.H. White’s incredible series of books about King Arthur and the wonderful Merlyn, five books which are all clustered under the title The Once…

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Collaborating with another writer… Would you? Could you?

On Tuesday of this week, I heard a fascinating interview on Minnesota Public Radio. In fact, it was so interesting that I have preempted my planned post for today in order to share it with you. In her regular Talking Volumes live interview, Kerry Miller talked with Cassandra Clare, author of the Mortal Instruments series,…

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