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Linnea Ashley on February 13th, 2006

no big surprise to anyone who knows me…i have an opinion…about pretty much anything. my most recent inclination is to try to curb – not the opinion so much as my need to express said opinion. don’t get me wrong…this is my space here and people decide to visit so i am ok jumping atop […]

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Linnea Ashley on February 12th, 2006

so i’ve gone and done it. with only a few days before my departure i have finally broken down and joined the ranks of the trendy and wanna-be-trendy. i bought an iPod. i thought about getting yet another walkman…cd player with external speakers. but then i thought about the last batch of cds i lost […]

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Linnea Ashley on January 31st, 2006

It seems corny when I write this – or earlier when I tried to convey it to friends –but in my head it is real and important and this blog is an extension of my brain so here goes.   I caught the last 15 minutes of whoopi goldberg back to broadway 20th anniversary the […]

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Linnea Ashley on January 31st, 2006

There is a thin line that separates my rights from yours. It is easy to miss it. Easy to assume that what works for me is ok because – as I so often put it –  “your rights stop where mine begin.” I realize now that the lilne is fuzzier and more fragile than I […]

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Linnea Ashley on January 27th, 2006

if Blues has a twang does that make it country? if country has an electric guitar does that make it rock? if rock has people talking over beats, does that make it rap? if rap is listened to by mainstream america does that make it pop? if pop gets inspired does that make it jazz? […]

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Linnea Ashley on January 25th, 2006

i’m becoming a blogging fool…check out this blog on abortion… 

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Linnea Ashley on January 24th, 2006

Brokeback article …read this and comment please…

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Linnea Ashley on January 22nd, 2006

It is this little thing; this little taken for granted thing…companions on the day to day journey that brings me to my life. If I really think about it – they – my friends scattered like Saharan dust over Africa – are my life. My friends. The ones I hold close to me now, who […]

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Linnea Ashley on January 22nd, 2006

The other night I heard a poet  that has resonated with me all day. She writes what I want to say in a way I wouldn’t mind taking credit for. Usually I hear poets and I like their stuff or don’t, but I seldom think to myself that I would have said it just like that. […]

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Linnea Ashley on January 22nd, 2006

Disturbed. All I can say is that woody allen disturbs me a little. His movies disturb me a lot. I left “match point”  feeling a lot like I did after I read a widow for one year.  It was the distinct feeling of driving, windows down, behind a garbage truck in the summer. I needed a […]

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