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Marathon, or Just One More Walk?

December 16, 2015by Marilyn Iwama Leave a comment

All I need is 32 kms to meet today’s goal. The last thing I want is to walk by the bases after today. When the jets fly over, Chelsey says, […]

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Like a Snowbird

Journeying Mercies

December 11, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 6 Comments

Dad was a careful guy. On a road trip, he’d only start the car after he prayed for journeying mercies. Dad stayed debt free until he bought a house once I’d […]

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Like a Snowbird

What a Mess can be Made

December 7, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 2 Comments

This turtle came with me on today’s walk. I found it yesterday morning when I took some torpor to the beach for a shakeup. The turtle sprawled there, about three feet […]

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Like a Snowbird

Walk South, Bus North

December 7, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 4 Comments

If you’re anything like me, from day to day you don’t know where you’ll wake up. You find yourself in a room where shadows are only bats trick-bombing a street […]

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Like a Snowbird

Blogging 101-4: Identify Your Audience

August 13, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 8 Comments

My ideal reader? Sympathetic, encouraging, daring. What I’d like to be. What my mother was, even when I griped about her being critical and self-centred and (worst of all) careful. […]

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Who I am and why I’m here: Blogging 101

August 11, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 6 Comments

Before today I blogged by trial and error, the way I learned to ride a bike. Talk about pressure. Now here I am, registered at Blogging U, relieved to have […]

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About the Island

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You an Ethnobotanist

June 26, 2015by Marilyn Iwama Leave a comment

I’m an ethnobotanist studying screw pines. Sounds as convincing as the lie about writing poetry. Get out look out I tell myself. It’s too easy to go crazy inside your […]

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Mimi on the Beach

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