Author Archives: Liza Blue

Podcast: The Flies Have It

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Flies-Have-It.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHere is my sure-fire suggestion to set a scene or provoke a mood.  Add a fly.  And give him human characteristics. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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Open Letter to Peg Bracken

  Dear Peg, I am writing to thank you for saving my mother’s life, not in terms of death and dying, but in the sanity sense of the word.  She clung to your 1960 cookbook, The I Hate to Cookbook … Continue reading

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Podcast: Open Letter to Peg Bracken

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Open-Letter-to-Peg-Bracken.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe I Hate to Cookbook, published by Peg Bracken in 1960, saved my mother’s life. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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The Elegance of the Hexagon

Not that there was any pitched battle for my loyalties, but I have to say that the hexagon is my favorite geometric shape.  I first became enamored in biochemistry when introduced to the basic building block of the carbon ring, … Continue reading

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Podcast: The Elegance of the Hexagon

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/The-Elegance-of-the-Hedgehog.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTake a tour of the ubiquitous hexagon, from the humble honeycomb to the 16,000 mile wide hexagon on the surface of Saturn! Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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Podcast: My Life in Guinea Pigs

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/My-Life-in-Guinea-Pigs.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMy uneasy relationship with guinea pigs in four chapters Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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My Life in Guinea Pigs

A Harsh Reality I found the guinea pig nestled in the back corner of the linen closet.  He had escaped from his cage a couple of days before, at least that’s when somebody noticed he was gone, because my brother … Continue reading

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Podcast: My Life in Typewriters

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/My-Life-in-Typewriters.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWho would have throught that my experience with typewriters would touch on gender politics, boyfriends and the tyranny of the typo! Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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My Life in Typewriters

1960s It was one of those in-between summers.  I had outgrown sleep-away camp and wasn’t old enough to be a camp counselor, so my mother had to patch together activities to keep me occupied.  Typing class was the solution. Even … Continue reading

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Podcast: Dear Lady in the Front Row Who Gasped

https://www.fanagrams.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Dear-Lady-in-the-Front-Row-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSStrangers can validate you as a writer. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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