Mark Traphagen | September 30, 2010
UPDATE: Watch Bulltown Strutters Mini-Documentary Video from Marry Durham I love Durham. Tonight at the second rehearsal of the Bulltown Strutters Band, Durham’s new New Orlean’s second line marching band extravaganza, we just felt like we needed to start steppin’. After going over a few tunes in one member’s living room, we decided to practice [...]
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Mark Traphagen | September 30, 2010
Pardon me for bragging on my wife for a moment, but her MOC (“My Own Creation”) Lego Modulex mini-brick model of a greenhouse was just featured as the “Fascinating Lego Model of the Day” at the popular blog of that title. Congratulations, Karyn! You can find out more about the little-known world of Modulex mini-bricks [...]
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Mark Traphagen | September 29, 2010
My dear friend, author and prolific book reviewer Mindy Withrow, has just published her review of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. So pleased to see she “got” it and loved it as much as I did.
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Mark Traphagen | September 23, 2010
This entry is part of a series, Secret Life of the Secret Life of Emily Dickinson» This essay is part of a series on the dreamscape aspects of Jerome Charyn’s novel, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. To see other entries in the series, click the link at the top of this post. This series [...]
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Mark Traphagen | September 22, 2010
Last night, in my second appearance as a storyteller at The Monti Story Slam, a regular live storytelling event here in Durham, NC, my story “The Bus, the Bench, and the Chamber of Doom” was judged best story of the evening! I want to personally thank Monti founder Jeff Polish, his wife, and his small [...]
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