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Christi Craig
Christi Craig
Member since: Nov, 2008
Last login: 11/09/2009
Last update : 10/29/2009
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About Me

  • A native Texan, Christi Craig lives in the Midwest with her husband and two children. She is a Sign Language Interpreter and a Writer. When she isn't interpreting the stories of others, she writes her own.

    See more of her work at Writing Under Pressure.

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  • Banned Books Week

    September 26, 2009

    • Read Robert P. Doyle's list of Challenged and Banned books for 2008-09, and see what's missing from your public library. What are you hiding under your pillow this week? (posted at Writing Under Pressure)
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  • Obsessing About Myself

    August 5, 2009

    • There's email, my cell phone, the Redroom, my blog. Discussions to follow, forums to read, and fans to compare.All day, I log in, check in, sign in. I refresh my email, hoping. I study my stats, wondering. I follow links and click avatars, in secret investigation. I sign out. I wonder how I racked up so many accounts and passwords and digital pages with news about me.This is ridiculous. I sign ...
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  • Soon to be out.

    July 25, 2009

    • Alltopia Antholozine will release their Summer/Harvest issue soon. Very soon. I'm thrilled. Thrilled my work will be included in this issue. Thrilled to be invited to the peer group reading and press release. But Portland is more than a day's drive from my house. And my favorite airline only goes as far as Seattle, for a pretty penny these days. So, come the end of August, I'll be at the press ...
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  • My Work in Black and White

    July 13, 2009

    • Sometime last spring, I joined up with a group of other writers from my online course to embark on a publishing project.Maybe it was that particular time of year, group of women, or the guidance of Ariel Gore. Maybe it was all of that, in concert with the right phase of the moon. Whatever the reason, we worked hard. We wrote well. We pulled from deep within and produced some amazing writing. So ...
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  • Electricity

    June 10, 2009

    • I've never figured out my carbon footprint. But I felt guilty a few months ago when I sat in on a presentation by the Sustainability Coordinator at my workplace. She spoke in evangelical tones about the amount of trash collected in one month. She preached on the regularity of ruined recycling because one person threw a container with food into the bin and wrecked the chances for the whole pile of ...
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Comments I've Written

  • Congrats!

    Mary, Great news! That is a great feeling. Enjoy your trip and keep writing!

  • Thanks

    ...for your comment as well. I especially love the "(Leave the room)" part.

  • good advice

    Jodi, that's good advice. And funny enough my husband hasn't asked to read my stories, either :)

  • ahh...Joni Mitchell

    Ron, Love that song.

  • congrats!

    Julie, Nice article! Congrats to you. And the Red Cliffs sound beautiful.

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