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Who burnt the pizza?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve had a piece I’ve been wanting to write for the last few days, and today, it finally decided it was time to come out. I put on Sting’s Brand New Day and put a homemade pizza into the oven, promptly forgetting about it in the middle of my muse. […]

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Just Shelley Writing

I’ll Never Write for the New Yorker

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I started writing when I was five years old. I wrote everything: articles, stories, fairy tales, even a musical when I was 12 that my school kindly let me produce and present. Writing is as much a part of me as breathing, laughter, and hope. My spelling is not always […]

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Just Shelley

For Hire

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. For hire: Edgy, quick tempered, slightly manic technology architect/writer. Known to disagree with people on occasion. Can be somewhat opinionated. Likes music. Orange. For particulars, enquire within.

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Writing

Tax Filings

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I finally found the kernel of the writer’s block I’ve had, as well as much of my restlessness in the last month — it was the end of year tax filings. Really, you would have laughed if you had seen me. I literally couldn’t approach the table with all my […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

I feel orange

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just had a comment from Dave (“Not Winer or Whiner” Dave, an anonymous and very lovable and supportive reader who I would link to if he ONLY LEFT HIS WEB ADDRESS) about sticking your hand into water and feeling ‘green’. First — cool comment. Second: feeling colors. Tasting colors. […]