Safe journey back Welcoming you back to sunny UK - the winter is over (I think!)
Look forward to catching up when you've had a chance to settle back in. Will miss the blog!
Hugs and safe journey,
Carolyn
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Greetings from the nappy zone Hi Sharon! Hope hubby managed to track down hot choc and croissants - though I guess that's history now and you're in Minneapolis! Great journal, very 'walkabout', very Catcher in the Rye? Vicarious pleasure from reading it, you know I don't get out much these days (though I'm not complaining, motherhood is an adventure in itself). Hope all's well, am thinking of you. Love Sallie xx
space scandal/sacking So I'm expecting the lowdown on the female astronaut sacking and all the rest of the iceberg behind it, when you're back. It made the news here today (Thursday). Ah now! if only you'd had a film crew with ya!
Hang in there gal, Sharon, I'm proud of you and your brave adventures in this big, beautiful country. Just hope you feel happier soon.
Please know you are always welcome to visit us in Brooklyn any time.
Love and kisses and hugs,
Di
Sorry to say goodbye Sharon, Please keep writing, ditch the hubby and get yourself into cyberspace. I expect to see a posting 'Just blown in to the Windy City' by the end of the day, or there'll be trouble!
Love Jen
I spy... Just had a peek at the spy shop - yeah, wacky! Bomber jackets for dogs, music to spy by and rearview sunglasses - how bizarre!
They even do spy parties for kids, how fab is that.
I should be writing my novel but it's much nicer doing some vicarious shopping with you.
Sending good vibes for your Chicago week...
Carolyn
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feel better soon! Dearest Sharon,
Hope you feel stronger soon so that you can face the last part of your journey with energy and interest. Sorry we'll miss each other when I'm in UK.
Love,
Diana xox
Houston, we have a problem Hey Sharon, sorry to hear that you're laid low with lurgy. I hope you get better soon, not for purely altruistic reasons, I am living vicariously through you, and would love to see the Rothkos (may complement the mood evoked by a flu virus?). I recommend bedrest and old movies, and you'll be trotting around Texas in no time at all, trust me, I'm a doctor.
Humid Houston Yes, the humidity. A friend lived there for three years and had to use heaps of hair gel to prevent total frizz lift-off. On the plus side, and if you need to cool down, there's an ice-rink at one of the malls!
Carolyn
Writing residencies! ...Hang on to that thought and pack me in your suitcase next time - growing older (and wiser) in a wonderfully artistic way in the mountains of NM is my lifeplan too! Okay, so you like solo travel; we can inhabit separate mountains. I have a cunning scheme to escape much of the British winters!
You can tell this trip is a tonic for you, your journal writing shines with beauty and wisdom. Go Girl!
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Cheers! Sorry it's taken a while to reply - been a bit busy, ya know! Thanks so much for your lovely comment. It's great to have support. People keep telling me I'm courageous, but I feel everyday life is much more challenging!! You have an amazing spirit too! Not that I won't take the compliment - I am bl**dy brave!! Love to all back home on Planet Earth!
Loons Annual Outing to Bream Well, sorry I haven't replied before, Heth - couldn't find your mail address! Yeah, I think we had far too much luxury in our childhood! it's getting to the point on my trip when I'm also scraping pennies together for snacks - which is all too familiar! I haven't had a paddy over which stool I'm having the caravan yet, thrown a knife at a passer by or forgotten my cases and had to have them sent by train! But it's only a matter of time!
Sex and the Housewives Well, my friend, Lee, is busy taping the new series while I'm away! But, no, I didn't bring any with me. Although I think I am just a little like Bree ...
A quote about camera usage...
Hi there, just had to share this quote with you from book I'm reading at moment by Jenny Diski - Skating to Antarctica. She's managed to get one of the limited places on a boat to this place to seek out whiteness:
She is bemused by the bird-watchers who constantly photograph everything:
'The present experience was already in the past for them, they had skipped over time, and were seeing the world through their video lenses, as it would look when the current moment was dead and gone. Things were named and described, sentences formed, a final draft written, withouth that first-draft struggle to transform wordless impressions into language. There was no translation of world into words, just the direct commentary, cutting out all the processes that might have added up to reflection. The memoireis being created now would extst, frozen in the future as lens-framed news reports.'
How bizzare that I was reading that and you were having similar thoughts on picture taking. I'm forever taking photos - there's a place for them as 'bookmarks' for the memory.
Love and hugs,
xxx
Sharon,
What did you expect from that jerk?
In USA they do send valentines to friends and family as well as significant others!
If you think DC is cold, wait till you get to Chicago...
love from a snowy NYC.
the biggest hug from me Hey Sharon, reading your posts has left me feeling over-awed with admiration for your sheer bloody spirit. What an amazing thing to do! Keep on trucking sweetie, the biggest hug from me, and a big kiss for good measure.
This is Diana, tha little hostess with the mostess!
Loving having Sharon here, such a bright, energetic young woman and ito use her word "WOW"she really is a great writer!
Hope she continues to enjoy her dream.
Perfectionism is overrated Hey Sharon. Repairing make-up on the icy bridge in a state of euphoria while fighting the objective jet lag. It sounds sublime. Keep it coming. Jenny x
As the recipient of the Speculative Literature Foundation travel research grant for 2006, Sharon is heading to NASA and other bizarre parts of America to get the real deal about the life of women in the space industry. From taking part in astronaut training to visiting the White House, Sharon's six week solo adventure promises to have plenty of weird and wonderful moments. An awarding winning writer of short stories, novels and poetry, this is her first blog - something she's doing to stop annoying her friends with long e-mails! ... full info
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Safe journey back
Welcoming you back to sunny UK - the winter is over (I think!) Look forward to catching up when you've had a chance to settle back in. Will miss the blog! Hugs and safe journey, Carolyn xxx