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Gimbling in the Wabe

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    Gimbling in the Wabe | The Words I Have Etched on My Body

    by Sharon Browning 9 August, 2021
    by Sharon Browning 9 August, 2021

    In 2012, LitStack Editor-in-Chief Tee Tate asked me if I would be interested in writing…

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    Why Do People Read Bad Books?

    by Sharon Browning 15 August, 2018
    by Sharon Browning 15 August, 2018

    Recently I’ve been reading What Makes This Book So Great, by Hugo and Nebula Award…

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    Of Words and Dogs and Little Fishes*

    by Sharon Browning 9 July, 2018
    by Sharon Browning 9 July, 2018

    I feel so blessed that I can “work” from home as a book reviewer, essayist…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Inspiration in Transitions

    by Sharon Browning 2 May, 2018
    by Sharon Browning 2 May, 2018

    Today at the dog park, one of the topics discussed by us “8:30 regulars” included…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Too Many Books

    by Sharon Browning 22 March, 2018
    by Sharon Browning 22 March, 2018

    This week, I’m reposting one of my very favorite Gimblings – a little poem I…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Seeing the Story

    by Sharon Browning 5 March, 2018
    by Sharon Browning 5 March, 2018

    In the first telling of the tale, I don’t pick up the book at all.…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Gimbling into the Sunset

    by Sharon Browning 19 May, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 19 May, 2017

    Back in November 2012, I wrote my very first Gimbling in the Wabe. It was…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – What I Want for Mother’s Day

    by Sharon Browning 12 May, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 12 May, 2017

    I was watching television the other day when an ad came on informing me that…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – My Beautiful Addiction

    by Sharon Browning 5 May, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 5 May, 2017

    Hi, my name is Sharon.  I’m a library request addict. It used to be I…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – “The Journey” by Mary Oliver

    by Sharon Browning 28 April, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 28 April, 2017

    For the final Gimbling in the Wabe of this year’s National Poetry Month, I am…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – “Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

    by Sharon Browning 21 April, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 21 April, 2017

    Edna St. Vincent Millay was already a published poet in her teen years, but it…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – “Home” by Warsan Shire

    by Sharon Browning 14 April, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 14 April, 2017

    April is National Poetry Month, and in honor of that I am stepping a bit…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Allowables by Nikki Giovanni

    by Sharon Browning 7 April, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 7 April, 2017

    It’s April, which has been declared National Poetry Month; a celebration of poetry created in…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Be Nice to Josie Day 2017

    by Sharon Browning 17 March, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 17 March, 2017

    Monday is  “Be Nice to Josie Day.” For me, it’s not the first day of…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – It’s On Us

    by Sharon Browning 10 March, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 10 March, 2017

    Poor Emma Watson! She shows some skin in a fashion photo shoot – yes, decidedly…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – On Paul Virilio, Integral Accidents, the Internet, the Olympics, Doctor Who, Feral Kittens and Not Going to Sea Without a Life Jacket

    by Sharon Browning 3 March, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 3 March, 2017

    Recently, I read Elan Mastai’s novel All Our Wrong Todays, and in it he referenced…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Say It Ain’t So

    by Sharon Browning 24 February, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 24 February, 2017

    With all that’s happening in the world today, with everything that deserves attention and activism,…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Something New Every Second

    by Sharon Browning 17 February, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 17 February, 2017

    The other day I was reading Michael Gibney’s Sous Chef:  24 Hours on the Line,…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – For Our Grape Vines, Now Gone

    by Sharon Browning 10 February, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 10 February, 2017

    I’ve been grappling with some big ideas lately, hoping to use them in this week’s…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – From Point A to Point B

    by Sharon Browning 3 February, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 3 February, 2017

    I’ve never been good at drawing connections between things. I’m perfectly fine with Point A…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – The Importance of the Nonsensical

    by Sharon Browning 27 January, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 27 January, 2017

    It’s been a rough week and I’ve been at a loss on what to write,…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Friday, January 20, 2017

    by Sharon Browning 20 January, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 20 January, 2017

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Planting Flowers

    by Sharon Browning 13 January, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 13 January, 2017

      This translated political cartoon by Spanish artist JM Nieto simply resonates with me. It…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Twelfth Night

    by Sharon Browning 6 January, 2017
    by Sharon Browning 6 January, 2017

    Christmas for me always ends on January 5. We leave our holiday lights on through…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – My Favorite Books of 2016

    by Sharon Browning 30 December, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 30 December, 2016

    The “Best Books of 2016”? Pul-eeze. Unless one has a universally agreed-upon metric that can…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Why the Bells Chimed

    by Sharon Browning 23 December, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 23 December, 2016

    My father was a minister, and for many years, a highlight for me was the…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – The Gift of Reading

    by Sharon Browning 16 December, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 16 December, 2016

    I tend to be one of those people who obsesses over gift giving.  I don’t…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Tis the Season (for me to give suggestions for the science fiction and fantasy readers on your gift list)

    by Sharon Browning 9 December, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 9 December, 2016

    It’s that time of year again, when thoughts turn towards warm and cozy, hearth and…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – About this Safety Pin Thing…

    by Sharon Browning 18 November, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 18 November, 2016

    Recently I read an article where a man, who probably thought he was well meaning,…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – The Tigers in This Picture

    by Sharon Browning 4 November, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 4 November, 2016

    A Rant About Clickbait of All Shapes and Sizes on Facebook (and Other Social Media…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – You Have to Hear It to Believe It

    by Sharon Browning 28 October, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 28 October, 2016

    I don’t normally do this for my Gimblings – linking to a site rather than…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Making Sausage

    by Sharon Browning 21 October, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 21 October, 2016

    In last week’s 2nd Annual NerdCon: Stories convention, held at the Minneapolis Convention Center, I…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – My Own Wanderings Through M. T. Anderson’s “Symphony for the City of the Dead” (Pt 2)

    by Sharon Browning 14 October, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 14 October, 2016

    … in which I jump right in from where I left off in my first…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – My Own Wanderings Through M. T. Anderson’s “Symphony for the City of the Dead”

    by Sharon Browning 7 October, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 7 October, 2016

    NOTE:  This is written as if it were being told to an acquaintance, say, someone…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Gene Luen Yang!

    by Sharon Browning 30 September, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 30 September, 2016

    Okay, I have to admit, I find last week’s announcement of the 2016 MacArthur Fellows…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – RIP, W. P. Kinsella

    by Sharon Browning 23 September, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 23 September, 2016

    On Saturday, September 17, 2016, Canadian author W.P. (Bill) Kinsella died at age 81. The…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Wherein I Rant about Manipulative Advertising

    by Sharon Browning 16 September, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 16 September, 2016

    Words are amazing.  They give voice to the essence of being human, they are how…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Glorious Failures

    by Sharon Browning 9 September, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 9 September, 2016

    My daughter was looking over the syllabus from a college English class that she had…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – A Story Unto Themselves

    by Sharon Browning 2 September, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 2 September, 2016

    Over the last few years I’ve been writing the “Literary Birthday” blurbs that appear Monday…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – My Own Genre of Postcards, My Own Genus of Photographs

    by Sharon Browning 26 August, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 26 August, 2016

    “A book is not an isolated being:  it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – What Michael Phelps and I Have in Common

    by Sharon Browning 12 August, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 12 August, 2016

    Well, the honest answer to “what Michael Phelps and I have in common” is, practically…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Persistence

    by Sharon Browning 5 August, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 5 August, 2016

    On summer nights – well, on many nights, really – I end the day out…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Sometimes When I Read…

    by Sharon Browning 29 July, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 29 July, 2016

    Sometimes when I read, it’s like a lovely summer’s day when the sun is shining…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – It’s Too Danged Hot!

    by Sharon Browning 22 July, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 22 July, 2016

    Dang, it’s hot.  Too hot. I know you folks in Southern climates may well be…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – What is a Writer?

    by Sharon Browning 1 July, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 1 July, 2016

    (Due to this nasty thing known as a “deadline”, this Gimbling in the Wabe is…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Clarity

    by Sharon Browning 24 June, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 24 June, 2016

    Today, I plugged new headphones into my iPod and entered nirvana. That may seem somewhat…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Everything is Going to Be Okay

    by Sharon Browning 17 June, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 17 June, 2016

    Late last Sunday night, in the wake of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – An Interesting Little Experiment

    by Sharon Browning 10 June, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 10 June, 2016

    Last week, I was trolling around on the internet (as I am wont to do),…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – My Thoughts on June Bugs

    by Sharon Browning 3 June, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 3 June, 2016

    I hate June bugs. Yes, I realize “hate” is a powerful, laden word.  I realize…

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    Gimbling in the Wabe – Words, Words, Words

    by Sharon Browning 27 May, 2016
    by Sharon Browning 27 May, 2016

    Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. ~William Shakespeare Although it…

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