I'm still on my holiday but: have computer and wireless, will blog.
While I've been off on my extended adventures (in ohio at the moment, but on the road home to joisey in about an hour) (more on the adventures to come), I've been thinking of what Hemingway wrote in A Moveable Feast: "Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan ..." so for this writing thing, I offer: Write about being away.
You can write about a road trip ... about a vacation you once took. What it's like to be away from the essentials. Write about missing someone who's away. Or maybe you'll want to write about how, no matter how long you lived there, those native Mainers always said you were "from away." Or how, as Hemingway says, distance from a person, place or thing provides some essential perspective.
Just take 15 or 20 minutes ... think about the Hemingway quote, think about being away ... put your pen to the paper (or fingers to the keyboard) and see where it takes you.
(and i'll see you again when i'm no longer away ...)
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