Author Archives: Annie Neugebauer

Happy birthday, Mr. Poe.

Originally posted on January 20, 2010 at 1:33 AM I’m writing this in the last technical minute of Edgar Allan Poe’s 201st birthday. It seems fitting to wish it at midnight. Ann Rice perhaps, I would say happy birthday to … Continue reading

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On the New Year and Resolutions

Originally posted on January 3, 2010 at 5:45 PM Happy New Year! I’m a big believer in resolutions. I don’t think there’s anything magical or sacred about the New Year; I think it’s a reminder. An annual reminder that goals … Continue reading

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NOW we can all start celebrating Christmas!

Originally posted on November 29, 2009 at 7:15 PM Last night I decorated inside, and today Kyle and I put up lights outside. It really took me back to my childhood, with my dad cursing grumpily about the strands that … Continue reading

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A Room of One’s Own

Originally posted on November 19, 2009 at 5:48 PM Virginia Woolf wrote a famous essay called “A Room of One’s Own,” in which she argues that women can be as exceptional as men in the writing of fiction if the … Continue reading

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Being Seduced

Originally posted on November 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM Like the last blog, sometimes I have to go all out to lure the muse out of her hiding places. But sometimes, she approaches me with the sort of intolerant determinedness … Continue reading

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