Secondary menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About Alzheimer’s
  • About Auburn
  • About the Author
  • About the Book
  • Auburn Speaks
  • Blog
  • Buy the Book
  • Contact
  • Contact Auburn
  • News & Events
  • Subscribe

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About the Book
  • About the Author
  • About Alzheimer’s
  • News & Events
  • Auburn Speaks
  • Contact

Category Archives: Uncategorized

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

I’ll Just Have a Terabit of That

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

Now and then I come across an excellent quote.  This one I especially love: I find myself using the word “bandwidth” now, and feel the mounting urge to say “megabit” and “gigabit” and “terabit” as though these are normal words … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

Splitting an Order

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

Splitting an Order I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half, maybe an ordinary cold roast beef on whole wheat bread, no pickles or onion, keeping his shaky arms steady by placing his forearms firm on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

May Day, Mayday!!!

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

Those of us who work from home in our jammies as tortured writers have, at last, been given the best excuse to stay abed until noon — swine flu. It’s our duty, as stay-at-home writers to … well, perhaps stay … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

My Pocket Poem

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

Today is the second national Poem In Your Pocket Day! The idea is simple: select a poem you love then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends To prepare for our soon-to-come summer in the desert, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

The Pink Pants Woman

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

Last Friday … before Bunco night with the girls, before I got sick later that night, before spending the next days in bed doing battle with a very obtuse and stubborn flu bug … I went to Costco. I loaded … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

The Newness of More

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

I’ve discovered that part of being a writer is to foster one’s opinions to a fine degree.  Dan says I’ve got a lock on the highly opinionated part, but he doesn’t know so much about the fine degree part.  I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

Who Ate My Car?

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

I’d have been home well before now, had I not been so very, very late for lunch with two friends I hadn’t seen for nearly a year.  I circled the mall parking lot more intent with the ticking time on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

To the Owls

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer.  A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.” Ernest Hemingway I’m not sure … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

Unboxing Life

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

After a week of unpacking, sorting, putting away — today we’re less apt to say, “It’s in a box somewhere” and instead marvel at our progress.  The important things have been located.  We’ve unpacked our spoons and bowls now which … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

My Friend

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Auburn McCanta

We met when she was going through a divorce and I’d been single a number of years.  A mutual friend brought her to a jam session.  Back in that day, if you could bang pots and pans together, you could … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized
Page 17 of 37« First‹ Previous14151617181920Next ›Last »

The Author

Auburn McCanta is an award-winning writer, poet, journalist, and advocate. Surviving an almost-always fatal brain tumor almost twenty years ago inspired her to write her first novel. Learn More

News and Events

All the Dancing Birds is available in hardcover and Kindle formats!

Click here to download the press release.

Connect

Recent Blog Posts

  • Oh……
  • Missing My Dan
  • Guard Rail
  • Words Matter
  • Bunny Plates on a Little Table

Blog Archives

© 2026 Auburn McCanta

Site by SmartAuthorSites.com ... Websites for Authors