TheBanyanTree: Fiddling

[Pam Lawley]

oh how I've missed your writing!  :-)

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Teague, Julie Anna <jateague at indiana.edu>
wrote:

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> > Runner's foot problems: toenails coming off, hideous large callouses,
> blisters, blisters under callouses. I complained to a writer friend that I
> couldn't write anymore. Everything is too personal, and I want to say
> something that feels universal, that strikes a chord. "The more personal it
> is, the more universal it is," she told me. So I present to you my sad
> runner's feet and their problems. Sitting on the edge of the tub in a
> stranger's apartment I've rented for a few days in New York, I
> concentratedly poke and cut and peel away at the latest crustaceous insult
> while Rome burns just 5 feet north of there.
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> > Julie
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