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Author Archives: Carol Vogt

Love All: A Summer of Reading Sports Biographies

June 21, 2013

Today is the first day of summer and that means TENNIS! Watching lots and lots of tennis that is – …

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Reading Like a Writer

March 1, 2013

Do you read like a writer? Do you pay close attention to all of the elements that create a great …

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Writing Resolutions 2013

January 4, 2013

I started writing a post about Flash Fiction when a little thought started poking through and distracting me: I haven’t …

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Spell Check: Why Can’t I Spell Misspell?

November 7, 2012

The word “whether” did me in. I still remember the crushing disappointment of losing the sixth grade spelling bee to …

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Listening to Moby Dick Big Read

October 12, 2012

I became inordinately excited when I learned that Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was going to be available in audio …

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Book Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

September 14, 2012

It’s fun to read a book or watch a movie set in my hometown of Seattle, so I was looking …

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Summer vacation reading destination: Lenox Library, Lenox, MA

August 16, 2012

Every summer I have the pleasure of spending a few idyllic weeks in the bucolic Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. I …

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Note to Self: Get Organized

July 20, 2012

I am a fairly organized person. When it comes to managing clutter, I adhere to Benjamin Franklin’s credo: “A place …

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Writing Fragments: Having Fun with Word Collages

June 22, 2012

In a corner of our home office sits a purple plastic tub overflowing with a tangle of stuff some might …

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Cabinets of Curiosities

March 30, 2012

In the Science section of the New York Times, I recently read a review of a museum exhibition and book …

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