Here are a few of the readers' favorite entries:
Favorite Entries
- September 25, 1996 -- "Here's
something: in the Wednesday, September 25, 1996 entry, you wrote
'Fractured Haiku'; it really stuck with me because I still remember how
amazed I was when I read it the first time... I can't believe I've been
reading your journal for more than four years, no wonder I feel like I
really know you." -- Jim
- July 15, 1997 -- "I read your
Clarion West journal last year, when I'd just found out about Clarion West
and was going on a journal reading binge...yours was one of the CW
journals that made the whole experience sound amazing and intense and all
sorts of other enthusiastic adjectives, and I ended up applying myself.
From that point of view, if I had to pick a favourite entry I'd pick one
of the CW ones -- skimming back through them, I really admired your entry
of July 15th -- dealing with the novel proposal critique, moving on from
it and composing a great sonnet all in one entry." -- Miriam
- July 10, 1998 - "My favorite
journal entry has to be Thursday July 10th, 1998. It's not the first
time I read your journal, but up until then I had only been reading the
entries every few days. After the July 10th entry, I made it a habit to
check your diary every day. Hey, you've even surpassed my pro wrestling
web sites as the first place I go to when I log on." --
James Lawson
- December 5, 1998 -- "My
admittedly biased favorite would be December 5, 1998. It's got some nice
rambling bits, it's got a sonnet (with a unique rhyme scheme, yet), and
best of all, it has a mention of Yours Truly. :-)" -- Shmuel
- January 12-15, 1999 -- "I
think that you were more open in those few days than you have been before
or since. Maybe it was the survey that set you off, but in any event, we
learned a lot about you." - C.J. Czelling,
cjczelling@home.com
- July 17, 2000 -- "It's funny
and reassuring and perceptive; very honest and articulate about the joys
and
difficulties of being poly. Plus, I always enjoy the moments when your
journal gets so personal... I probably enjoy those entries more because
your journal isn't a full-on 'Mary Anne's Emotional
Extravaganza' every day." -- Tim
Pratt, Madwaldo@hotmail.com
- September 28, 2000 -- "My vote
is for the Sept. 28th, 2000 entry. It really touched me, because it was
about love and longing, hopes and memories. Love of old times, old
places, old friends, family. But without a lot of melancholy that often
happens when people look into the rearview mirror of life. It had a
wonderful mix of how the colors of the past seem more beautiful, more
vivid, the way the sun rays strike and refract off clouds at sunset, and
how the present flits by and becomes the past so quickly, leaving very
little time for decisions and revisions. When I first read it, I thought
it would make one of those perfect essays you see at the end of the
Lehrer news hour, or hear on NPR. That entry also really cheered me up
when I was having an awful day." -- Sunita
- November 27, 2000 -- "The
last entry of yours that stuck in my mind was the one from November 27th,
this year, with the comments about flying. I read it in San Francisco, on
a 2-week trip there, and getting there - and back - involved 12 hour
flights from Auckland (New Zealand) to LA and 1 hour flights from LA to
SF. I thought about your entry while I was squashed into a United economy
seat on the way back to Auckland. I tried to see the romance and the
mystery of flying, but I was tired (I can't sleep on planes) and unwashed,
and I couldn't see out the window (it was night anyway), and for an hour
before we landed the guys next to me discussed plane crashes they had
known ("they never did find out what happened to that flight in New York,
did they?"). Then the cloud broke up, and we came in low over the
Coromandel Peninsula with the morning sun, and everything was green and
blue and beautiful...*That* I like. Flying itself... well, it's faster
than
driving :)" -- Miriam
- December 9, 2000 -- " If you
are doing a runner-up journal entry, my pick is Dec. 9th, 2000, if only
because I love flowers too. :) Have you ever heard Christine Lavin's
song "Roses from the Wrong Man"? It's wonderful." -- Sunita