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Aug.27.2012
Here is a photo of Jupiter at three months. It took him a year to grow into that head.
My sister-in-law, Maryke, told me that it hurts so much to lose our dogs and cats because the only thing they do is love us. Regardless of our moods, our actions, our choices… they love us. I...
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Jun.09.2012
Here I am with Jupiter, my faithful pup of twelve years. We've just learned he has cancer and this breaks my heart. I hope there will be many more months of him lying at my feet as I write. For it is all he really wants--to be near and, of course, to take long walks. ...
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May.13.2012
When I lived in Phoenix, I had the fortune of having Mom and Dad come out and stay with me for a month in the winters. Mom and I spent a lot of time walking the paths and roads in South Mountain Park. I treasure this memory. I treasure her.
Walking with my mother at...
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May.09.2012
Me: Well, Amos, when I created you, I fully expected you to stay in the pages of my novel. What prompted you to “come out” so to speak?
Amos: That’s a good question, Sara. And I don’t want to be disparaging here, but it seems to me that a lot of authors...
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May.05.2012
One Sunday night, one of our cats began staring at the stove. Like it was a T.V. or aquarium. I laughed, took pictures, posted one on Facebook. Everyone said, “You have a RAT or a MOUSE.” How dare they? The nerve! I’ve...
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Feb.17.2012
Apparently, while I'm slaving away on the sequel to A Sigh for Life's Completion, my main character, Paul Christian has found time to write an essay clarifying the vampire archetype. It follows here:
There is a romantic notion of what a vampire is. I would like to suggest that...
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Feb.08.2012
Happy Birthday Dad. I miss you.
I'm not sure what ethereal place you're in—but I am sure that you make it better for all there. If you're among souls, I imagine they are laughing more and enjoying good conversation. You're probably telling stories—flashing moments from your...
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Oct.26.2011
In 2006 I was teaching English at a South Phoenix high school. As word spread about the march planned to protest immigration legislation, many teachers told our students that cutting school to participate would affect their grade. Some teachers even promised to give students Fs...
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Oct.05.2011
I had a nightmare once, when I was a teenager. I was in a small cement prison cell with damp walls. It was cold and I had nothing to warm me--no heat, no blankets. I looked up as a man entered and I knew that he came to kill me. I asked him if I could write a poem...
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Sep.15.2011
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When I wrote my novel A SIGH FOR LIFE'S COMPLETION, I was returning to a vampire character who had lived in my thoughts for twenty years: Paul Christian. (If you want to know what he thinks about vampires in our culture, I posted a blog he wrote on 12/28/10 http://redroom.com/...
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Aug.18.2011
On my birthday this year, one of my past students, I'll just call her M, posted this on my Facebook page:
Happy birthday Ms. Kuhns. Thanks for always giving me a chance and making me do my best. You changed my Life. Happy birthday.
M is an amazing poet and was so very interesting to...
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Jul.24.2011
Borders is shutting their doors. Of course, we knew this was coming when they closed stores that didn't seem to make sense to do so--such as the ones in Hollywood and Pasadena. I hope that the void this will create will in turn become an opportunity for more independent bookstores to open up. ...
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Jun.27.2011
Three months have passed
since we flew to Minneapolis
and drove madly through
the winter rain,
to see you at dawn,
to be with you
for the last time.
You weren’t communicating,
not really.
You could nod or
shake your head,
let us know if the pain
was bad,...
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Feb.24.2011
I am a fortunate girl. Members of my family have taken the time to compile our family tree. Because of this I know that John Howland, manservant, married fellow passenger Elizabeth Tilley five years after coming to America on the Mayflower. One of their children was a daughter, Desire Howland,...
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Feb.15.2011
I don't know why I didn't notice them before. I mean, if I think about it, I do feel that I've always been watched. By someone. Or thing. Haven't you ever felt like that?
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...the stories of these characters are told in lovely, readable prose. And for all the sprawl of the larger plot of the book, the characters are entrancing and kept this reader fascinated, concerned, and interested from start to finish.”
—Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, September/October 2011
About Sara
One of my earliest memories is of writing. Poems, little stories by a little girl... words were the best presents I could give. I grew up writing poetry and participated in the Chicago poetry circuit in my twenties. At that time, I was also...
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Causes Sara Kuhns Supports
Afghan Women's Writing Project -- http://www.awwproject.org/
Shadow's Fund --...
Sara’s Favorite Books
The Onion Girl, Dog's of Babel, Someplace to be Flying, Let the Right One In, The Lovely Bones, Neverwhere, Sharp Teeth, Water for Elephants, The Kite Runner,...