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Adventures in Seattle arts, entertainment, outdoors and travel — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. Birth Control on Craigslist. I’ve been looking at Oregon Craigslist ads for inexpensive furniture for Mom’s new beach house. This ad made me laugh – and made me so glad I don’t have kids. Read on to get an idea of why I’m not interested in any of this poor woman’s furniture:. Table and 4 chairs – (You can see the color in the picture of the coffee-snatcher and the picture with the diary and the coffee–sorry I don’t have a better shot! And that these are FREE? October 10, 2010.
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Bill Gates — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. My friend Clayton Chase Fullmer took this great photo of Bill Murray for WireImage, the festivals official photographer. I never thought celebrity-seekers would be as excited about seeing Bill Gates as they are about starlets. So I stood outside, with snow piling up on me, cursing. Stupid Bill Gates! I said. And I trundled off to catch a shuttle home. On the shuttle, I ran into my dear friend Sean P. Means. Movie critic for the Salt Lake Tribune. The snow was just starting when...
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Dead Poets — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. What am I doing here? I’ve spent my career writing about arts, entertainment, relationships, travel, outdoor recreation the fun stuff. The stuff that makes life worth living. Now that I’ve left the full-time newspaper world to focus on writing books, I find myself still wanting to find out about cool stuff and tell people what I’ve discovered. Here’s what he says:. We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members ...8221; Answer&...
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Advice for aspiring filmmakers — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. Advice for aspiring filmmakers. I got an email recently from a man in Seattle who’d read a story I wrote in the Seattle Times. About the mutually supportive nature of the Seattle film community. He said his son was a budding filmmaker who had already set up a home-grown studio, complete with sound-editing equipment and a green screen, in the family garage. He wondered how he could get in touch with some of these talented and generous filmmakers. The filmmakers I profiled are sp...
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Road trip! — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. I’ve finalized the details of my upcoming trip to Utah. It’ll be packed with events. Now I’m just hoping things go smoothly – and if you live in Utah, I hope to see you there! Here are the relevant bits from the associated press release:. WASATCH FRONT CELEBRATES REMARKABLE UTAH WOMEN. Park City, Utah. Tuesday, April 26, 6:30 pm. Park City Library Roger Harlan Meeting Room. Park City, UT 84060. Wednesday, April 27, 7 pm. Provo City Library Brimhall Room, #302. Provo, UT 84601.
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Writers speak! — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. My friend Wendy Hinman. Who’s polishing her memoir about touring the world on a seven-year sailing adventure, wrote a very thoughtful response to her experience at the Whidbey Writers Conference for the Writing Is My Drink blog. Here’s a link:. Wendy writes about the Whidbey Conference. Speaking of conferences, I’ll be moderating a panel discussion on writing travel guide books. Here’s the link for that:. Http:/ www.travelwritersconference.com/event schedule.html. For an update...
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Clumsy Lovers — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. What makes a good show? The Clumsy Lovers, a Vancouver, British Columbia, band, plays at the Tractor Tavern in Seattles Ballard neighborhood. (Ron Wurzer/WPN for the Boston Globe). As I mentioned the other day, I went to hear the Clumsy Lovers. The eclectic crowd was stomping and clapping, hoedown-style, setting aside PBR tallboys to fully join the fun. Which got me thinking: what makes a great concert? Is it the mood? Floors made of natural material (cork, wood, grass). What I...
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Bill Murray — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. My friend Clayton Chase Fullmer took this great photo of Bill Murray for WireImage, the festivals official photographer. I never thought celebrity-seekers would be as excited about seeing Bill Gates as they are about starlets. So I stood outside, with snow piling up on me, cursing. Stupid Bill Gates! I said. And I trundled off to catch a shuttle home. On the shuttle, I ran into my dear friend Sean P. Means. Movie critic for the Salt Lake Tribune. The snow was just starting when...
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For the ladies of ECWC…and post-conference announcement! — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. For the ladies of ECWC…and post-conference announcement! I promised I would upload the handout from my presentation at the Emerald City Writers Conference, where I had a terrific time with an awesome bunch of writers. I got a bit bogged down writing another book, but I’m back in the world of the living, and here it is. Please feel free to contact me if you have follow-up questions. And you told them, “Yes, my book is done. I’m just doing a final polish”? RSS feed – click ...
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Blast from the present — The Life Worth Living
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More About Christy Karras. Blast from the present. Dear Loyal Readers,. Okay, so there aren’t any of you. I don’t blame you. My bad. I haven’t exactly been the best poster. Can you forgive me? I’ve been busy. I know. Lame excuse. But I did finish four books in 18 months. Oh, and I got married. You should have been there. You got the invite, right? I hate reading “sorry I haven’t been blogging” posts, so I’ll stop now. But I am sorry. And I’ll try to do better. There are no comments yet. Sean P. Means.
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