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Mar.26.2013
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha
Last weekend I participated in the Crystalline Light Expo. The expo was a gathering of holistic healers, empaths, and...
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Nov.28.2010
My best friend Vania and I were discussing feminism yesterday. It's a subject on which we share similar opinions. I consider myself among the Fuck-Me Feminists. I have no issue with pornography; I love erotica as much as I love my feminist literature; and though I respect Andrea Dworkin, I think...
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May.02.2010
Last Thursday a local theatre did an informal reading of my graduate thesis play. This was the first time I'd had the opportunity to hear the play read aloud by a group of people with performance backgrounds. I had been looking for several months for a venue and actors to assist me with a...
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Mar.10.2010
I love that Red Room gives writers on the space prompts. This is the first time I've rolled with it.
In high school I thought I was so ugly and fat. Two years ago a friend of mine from my high school days posted a picture of me on their facebook page and tagged me. I was immediately...
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Mar.09.2010
I have decided to be more diligent with my writing. I've become so lazy. I'm not sure what is up with me, but I know if I write I may find my way through it.
I'm feeling coupling stress-all my friends are coupled. I don't get it. I never have. I'm too stubborn an individual to be a...
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Jan.16.2010
I've been so focused on my playwriting, essays, and nonfiction that I had lost my poetry. Here is a toe in the water.
Sylvia’s Flight
Sylvia fell from a star. She waited till no one was watching—no one
noticed. Her mother on the moon couldn’t see. Mother confected candies
and watched...
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Apr.10.2009
I'm blogging to let those who could not make it to my production on the 8th know how everything turned out and for those who were there and just wanted some behind the scenes information.
I was thrilled with the turnout. I ran off 75 copies of the program and all but one was taken--and I know some...
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Dec.06.2008
It is embarrassing for me to admit my very guilty pleasure. It stems from my childhood and the time before my mother married my stepfather. This felt like a happy time in my life. It was the 1970’s and the midst of the sexual revolution. My mother was a Cosmo girl. Cosmo magazines appeared to be...
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Nov.21.2008
I’ve been dreaming more than usual lately. My dreams have ranged from the depressing to the erotic, to loving, to horrific. I am a huge believer that dreams are the unconscious speaking directly to the conscious about what the dreamer knows will be true. Dreaming can also be a way for the...
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Sep.20.2008
I have been toying with this cookbook idea. I want to make a collection of really awful recipes. So, dear readers … what is the recipe you have seen or tried that would have been better if it not existed? Here is my all time favorite. I found it in an employee fundraiser cookbook that belongs...
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Sep.17.2008
I have a possibly unnatural hero-worship towards several of the professors and teachers I’ve studied under during my life. These people are the true rock stars who never receive the glory befitting them.
Today I was told that one of my favorite English teachers, Larry Thompson (or as we called...
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About Kali
Kali Meister is a performance artist, writer, activist (loud mouth), teacher, and hobbied jam maker. She has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. Kali was the 2008/2009 Jack E. Reese Writer in Residence at Hodges Library...
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Causes Kali Meister Supports
Sexual Assault Crisis Centers, Amnesty International, West Memphis 3, Doctors Without Borders, GLTB Activism
Kali’s Favorite Books
Bastard Out of Carolina, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, August: Osage County, Baltimore Waltz, The Women of Lockerbie, Handmaid's Tale, For Colored Girls Who Have...