Shana Ritter
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September brings a new beginning, the start of a new year, my own birthday near to the high holidays, days when the gates swing open, and...
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Shana Ritter
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
Time Change
I’ve been back home for just about as long as I was gone but time’s measure is distinct even though the length of it is close to the...
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Shana Ritter
- Sep 13, 2016
- 1 min
Hinting towards fall
On Saturday the first falling leaves spiraled down on a light breeze. My grandsons ran across the back yard trying to catch the yellow...
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Shana Ritter
- Jun 30, 2016
- 2 min
Still Thinking about Orlando
Driving up the road to the Smithville farmers market,  I wasn’t paying much attention to NPR morning edition until I heard that people in...
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Shana Ritter
- Feb 5, 2016
- 2 min
A Strange Intimacy
I am lying on the table in the upstairs surgical suite after hours. My eye is taped open, my other eye covered. I am staring into a...
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Shana Ritter
- Jan 25, 2016
- 2 min
Walking Labyrinths
This is my first post of 2016. After almost of a month of no entries I wasn’t sure if I would come back to blogging, or if I would leave...
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Shana Ritter
- Oct 29, 2015
- 1 min
The darkening
The pond hasn’t iced yet though the morning sparkles with cold it’s not enough for frost. We still haven’t shifted away the last of the...
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Shana Ritter
- Oct 14, 2015
- 2 min
Walls made of wordsÂ
In a couple of days I leave for the west coast. I’ll have time to visit with long time friends before going to a writing workshop with...
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Shana Ritter
- Sep 28, 2015
- 1 min
Time, Memory and Alzheimer’s
The day after the full blood super moon eclipse is a Monday. It is a cloudy somewhat dreary morning in early autumn. Everything looks dry...
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Shana Ritter
- Sep 10, 2015
- 2 min
It’s that time
I am at the point in working on my novel when I’ve generated enough words that I need to put one page after the other, chapter after...
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Shana Ritter
- Aug 28, 2015
- 2 min
looking up
On the way home from town yesterday in the surprising cool of a late August afternoon I noticed a tinge of yellow on the leaves. It seems...
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Shana Ritter
- Jul 23, 2015
- 1 min
And revery.
Last week I spent a perfect summer day with a small group of writer friends gathered for a retreat on my back porch.There was just a bit...
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Shana Ritter
- Jul 13, 2015
- 1 min
A lack of gardening
I have let the gardens go wild this year. Back in late April on a day that promised summer  I  weeded the lower part of the garden,...
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Shana Ritter
- Jul 6, 2015
- 1 min
Summer
July 4 has come and gone and I hardly feel like its summer. Not having kids in school will do that. Coolest, wettest, June I can ever...
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Shana Ritter
- Jun 25, 2015
- 2 min
Why I was writing myself into corners…
Last week I took a course at the writing festival in Iowa City called Novel in a Week taught by Kelly Dwyer. Â I discovered why it was was...
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Shana Ritter
- Jun 4, 2015
- 2 min
Grandson
It is my first grandson’s birthday today. From the first he has been a gift, along with my title of Nana. Being a grandparent I am able...
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Shana Ritter
- May 29, 2015
- 1 min
Possibilities….
I watched an old Star Trek voyager last night; Captain Janeway and Tom got caught in a subspace time fracture. I’ll spare the details but...
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Shana Ritter
- May 9, 2015
- 2 min
Mother’s Day
This Mother’s Day I am thinking how grateful I am to my two daughters. From the time they were born they grounded me. They may have...
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Shana Ritter
- Apr 23, 2015
- 1 min
A habit of words
A habit of words. #napowrimo #poetry #Writing
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Shana Ritter
- Apr 23, 2015
- 2 min
A habit of words
I have written a poem a day for the last twenty-two days. I gave my word to do it and so I did. It is not about inspiration or finding...
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