Tag: dream
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December 19, 2013
I had a dream that I had the perfect opening line for a novel. This sentence led to other beautiful sentences and in my dream, I could feel the novel just writing itself. I can’t remember it of course, that perfect opening line. I have thought before that I should keep a notebook by my…
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November 7, 2013
I woke from a dream of underlining (in what book? Whose words?) the best, most cogent advice about how to write that I have ever read. In my dream, I thought: oh, now I understand how to do it. This makes so much sense to me. I will have to tell other people. But the…
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July 8, 2013
I had a long and glorious Fourth of July weekend. My best friend Tracey and her college-bound daughter Roxanne (who still sometimes calls me Aunt Kate) came to stay. There were boisterous gatherings. There was great food. There was laughter. There were sparklers. Some day when I am very old, I will wake up in…
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October 4, 2012
In the dream, I was younger and living in a ranch style house that was carpeted in brown shag. It was wintertime. A friend came to visit. He took off his snow boots and left them on the kitchen floor. I thought: I will try these on. I put the left snow boot on and…
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May 31, 2012
Yesterday, I saw an old gumball machine at a garage sale and I stood in front of it and thought, “Man, I sure would like to have a gumball machine.” And then I thought, “What in the world would you do with a gumball machine?” And I walked away. But last night I dreamed of…
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March 15, 2012
When I was a kid, the Cooper Memorial Library in Clermont, Florida was a little house filled with books. I knew and loved every square inch of it. I was always, always welcome there. Now, I am thousands of miles away from that building, but sometimes it appears in my dreams. The dream is always…