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Fred First Naturalist-essayist pens non-fiction from the Blue Ridge Mts of Virginia

Fred First
Fred First
Floyd, VA
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 08/05/2009
Last update : 03/05/2009
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  • With first at MS in Biology and 12 years in the classroom followed by second MS in Physical Therapy and a dozen years in the clinic, Fred First began writing to a weblog, Fragments from Floyd, in 2002 in a temporary sabbitical from what he did for a l ...

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  • Feeling the Currents Move

    March 5, 2009

    • A friend sent along the link to RedRoom today. How perfect. I am pulled along by the quickening currents, closer and closer to the cataract of publication date for my second book. And Red Room will provide a very nice platform, collateral to my six-year-old weblog, Fragments from Floyd, where there may not be as many book readers as I would expect to find here. Wonderful! I see that images can be ...
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Comments I've Written

  • Writing Genre

    Definitely non-fiction is where my short writing life has centered, and a long history as a biology-watcher influences much of what I write.

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Media

Sometimes a smell can be more than our denial and pretense can defend against. There are smells--even in winter--that tell us we are home.A Nose for Winter
An account of an aerial ballet performed, perhaps, only for the man below who stood by the white farmhouse looking up, shading his eyes against the sun.Grace, Descending
The true story of a faithful friend who could not rest until he found his family once again.The Long Way Home

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