tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-297591462011-11-09T14:34:50.289-06:00<br><br><br><br><br><br><p align="center"><b>Everything and anything literary, plus ink spots of my musings.</b></p>Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-66325576120480074432009-10-03T17:07:00.005-05:002009-10-03T17:15:10.739-05:00

With all the bad news lately, we all need something a little silly. Source: Stacy's Random Thoughts, written by my sis, Stacy.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-74330578444473956572009-06-04T15:37:00.003-05:002009-06-04T15:40:41.230-05:00

New post on government regulations requiring employers to collect and report employee and dependent personal information to a federal agency: "My News Muse" here.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-45624983059885443422009-03-24T09:43:00.003-05:002009-03-24T09:46:15.299-05:00

Well, it happened. Read my blog post at MyNewsMuse about the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's final print newspaper published on 3/17/09 here. Good-bye, old friend.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-49531549025924897762009-01-16T15:43:00.002-06:002009-01-16T15:45:36.476-06:00

Any freelance photogs out there? Check this out: "Get your Obama pix published in inaugural book."

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-79224184251800489692009-01-09T20:18:00.009-06:002009-01-09T21:33:57.036-06:00

Last semester, I wrote my final paper on the "Future of Journalism" about the problems and challenges facing American newspapers. Then just tonight I learned that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the paper where I worked in the late 80s before my first son was born, is up for sale. Read more here. Given the economy, this is most likely the death knell. Reading the announcement was like reading an

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-69535312238951806612008-12-29T05:43:00.007-06:002008-12-29T06:53:33.678-06:00

Berkley Books, a unit of Penguin Group, canceled the release of Herman Rosenblat’s memoir, "Angel at the Fence", after Rosenblat admitted he did NOT meet his wife at the Buchenwald camp during the Holocaust as he had claimed. She never came to give him apples and bread through the fence like he's been telling since the 1990s after he submitted an entry to a newspaper competition soliciting the "

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-15682063003863419212008-12-14T12:44:00.008-06:002008-12-14T14:03:09.419-06:00

...Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review photographer Jerry Greenberg's appeal (okay, the legalese is "denied the appeal") in his 11-year-long case against National Geographic for including 60 photos of his work in "The Complete National Geographic," a 30-disc CD-ROM compilation. The Supreme Court denied Greenberg's petition for a writ of certiorari on Monday, which lets stand the

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-9894251546403759732008-12-01T19:12:00.003-06:002008-12-01T19:16:03.365-06:00

To celebrate the generous spirit of the season, I'm offering a signed FREE book to the first person who follows this blog (one per person). Hope it's you. :o)Just scroll down and look for the link on the right. See titles here.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-67611071153469230922008-11-28T10:23:00.002-06:002008-11-28T11:55:38.134-06:00

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of my Web site, The Write Place, Inspiration for Writers on the Web, also known as KIMN.net, founded on November 28, 1998. If you need writing inspiration, drop by for a visit! Contests column, updated bimonthly (FREE resource).Inspirational quotes, excerpts, and first lines of novels"From My Heart" column archives

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-20318261095589144602008-11-27T04:28:00.007-06:002008-11-27T04:43:15.567-06:00

Who knew? In 1943, Eva Braun reportedly gave Adolf Hitler an 18k gold bookmark which was stolen from an auction house in Madrid in 2002, and was just recoverd in Washington state. Read the rest in the Seattle Times.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-40317799229282953462008-11-25T16:10:00.009-06:002008-11-25T16:21:05.530-06:00

Publisher's Weekly announces: "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has asked its editors to stop buying books." This does not bode well for writers, readers, or the children they love.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-24829382474807718732008-10-11T10:43:00.011-05:002008-10-11T18:21:55.283-05:00

After a necessary hiatus, my contests column at The Write Place is back. I posted all NEW contests for your perusal (click the "contests" link on left).Why consider contests?1. Contests come with deadlines--which I've found many writers need. Yes, including me. Deadlines give us a date when we must complete a project and actually send it out by U.S. mail or submit online. 2. Contest topics can

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-41167034481091814342008-08-13T22:42:00.002-05:002008-08-13T22:46:05.886-05:00

Two months ago today, my city was submerged under 8 to 13 feet of flood waters that covered approximately 1,400 city blocks, or nearly 10 square miles. I took some new photos today that I will post soon. Read more at My News Muse.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-68440830086954558712008-08-08T23:26:00.003-05:002008-10-11T18:02:04.383-05:00

It's Friday, August 8th, in the year 2008. Altough I normally deal in words, I had to take a moment to acknowledge that today, in numbers, it is 08/08/08. Cool!

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-79785435687305646812008-06-28T12:15:00.003-05:002008-06-28T12:22:20.692-05:00

I've been busy the past two weeks with flood news on my other blog, My News Muse, and volunteering to help victims this past week, but I finally set up a flood news and photo site.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-4031372252251161572008-06-18T08:36:00.003-05:002008-06-18T08:44:51.167-05:00

Trouble started last week when Rogers Cadenhead, proprietor of the Drudge Retort (not to be confused with the more well-known Drudge Report), posted on Friday that the AP had sent him not one, but seven take-down notices for article citations on AP news stories. Yet the AP was caught Monday lifting entire sections for a story published June 16th but which first appeared on the blog Patterico's

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-75591092435394960972008-04-13T18:54:00.000-05:002008-04-13T19:00:22.455-05:00

The First Amendment graces the front of the new 250,000 square-foot "Newseum" that opened April 11th, 2008 in Washington D.C. Check out the interactive floor-by-floor map created by USA Today--click here to take a peek."Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-65015702579402753752008-04-13T12:19:00.000-05:002008-04-13T19:01:06.590-05:00

Fans of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" series will have to wait for Peter Jackson to direct "The Hobbit." Tolkien's estate was supposed to be paid 7.5 percent of gross receipts as specified in the movie contract with New Line. However, the plaintiffs claim they have only received an upfront payment of $62,500 for the three movies before production began--but nothing more since, although New Line

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-30180162237357093912008-02-29T16:03:00.001-06:002008-10-11T18:02:36.258-05:00

News in the publishing world about authors and Web site creators always concerns me. Here's a summary of the story appearing today at CNN.com: "In papers filed for a lawsuit in Manhattan, J.K. Rowling says she feels betrayed by a fan, Steven Vander Ark, for his role in trying to publish an unauthorized reference work, Harry Potter Lexicon."Vander Ark is editor of a Web site containing a

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-1296510930548579932007-12-01T19:40:00.000-06:002008-12-12T00:45:25.453-06:00

The other night I stopped with my youngest son at Zio Johno's, an Italian place with fabulous food and warm atmosphere. While we waited for our bagged order, an older gentleman entered, ordered food, and walked past us to seat himself on one of the wooden chairs under the beautiful mural of an Italian canal. An invisible but unmistakable trail of thrift-store odor wafted behind him. Not body-odor

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-59545487467581653022007-08-25T20:21:00.001-05:002008-12-12T00:45:25.790-06:00

I pulled up to my favorite place in Iowa, a place that reminded me of Seattle and the funky coffee places where writers can retreat and muse, and--shock of shocks!--it was closed, in the middle of a sunny afternoon. Brown paper covered the windows. A yellow notice in the glass door announced the death--er, closure--of Java Creek Café.Behind that brown paper I could still see, in my mind's eye,

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-19579627421568271972007-06-01T14:52:00.001-05:002008-10-11T18:03:49.593-05:00

The Journalism and Mass Communication department honored me with the Harry S. Bunker Memorial scholarship at the University of Iowa's annual "Fourth Estate Banquet" in April. I am thrilled! Here's the UI press announcement if you'd like to share my joy. Scroll down to "Washington" since recipients are listed by hometown.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-56395587105167409962007-04-18T23:09:00.001-05:002008-10-11T18:04:08.295-05:00

Read my post about the questions I asked after the shootings at Virginia Tech, posted at MyNewsMuse. It's not what you expect.

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-1175891257524996082007-04-06T14:58:00.001-05:002008-10-11T18:04:46.366-05:00

Some of you know that I returned to college, working toward a BA in journalism and English at the University of Iowa. This experience deserves a blog itself, but today I'm struck by a conversation with a grad student in my editing class this week.Sitting across from me before class, he read a headline aloud from his laptop accessing the news wirelessly: "How Would Jesus Pastor?"Intrigued, I said

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-1166406737367078442006-12-17T19:50:00.001-06:002008-10-11T18:05:44.305-05:00

Last weekend my husband and I joined the ranks of insane people who sit in camping chairs outside a retail store in the bitterly cold wee hours of pre-dawn hoping to get a Nintendo Wii system for our boys for Christmas. Yes. We did. Although we both wore thermal under layers of clothing, bone-chilling winter seeped through our coats and gloves and scarves. I pitied the lumps inside sleeping bags

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-1163391276083522852006-11-12T22:09:00.002-06:002008-10-11T18:11:38.000-05:00

When my Honors English professor announced last week that we must watch Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, for discussion in class next week, my heart sank. I posted my response on the class blog, and then decided to share it here, too.Borat on YouTube was enough for me to "get it." But when the movie became an assignment, I did some research. (If

Kimnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00575198441540113122noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29759146.post-1160271628712249312006-10-07T19:52:00.001-05:002008-10-11T18:09:48.956-05:00

I met Shannon at a church picnic. Balancing paper plates and soft drinks in our hands, we happened to sit at the same picnic table. The first moments filled with the usual quick niceties, the forgettable things you say to a stranger.Then, somehow, we both mentioned something startling--I'm a writer, one of us said. Me too, the other replied. What do you like to write? I asked, which I find myself

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