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Mary"s "Maginings and Musings

Mary Struble Deery

This is the inaugural recording of the ‘Maginings and Musings of Mary. Like most writers, I have boxes and piles, and shelves of notebooks filled with stories and reflections. Those spirals represent the calisthenics I’ve been doing since I discovered the sport about 15 years ago. I wasn"t sure how I wanted to share it. Someone suggested I develop a Podcast Good idea, I thought. So, here it is! Because of the chance someone somewhere might enjoy my efforts, I"m posting some of my best and

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00:11:32

Mr. Picklepaw's Puppy

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2024/08/02

Brian Deery clandestinely reading and recording a children's story in his closet at 6-8 years old. Listen carefully and you'll hear mom hollering something from downstairs.

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#25 The Good, the Bad, and the Lovely

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2024/06/15

To honor her deceased husband,Linda Matney, a writer friend of mine raised funds to build a Labyrinth garden in the center of Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. Following the completion of this beautiful tribute, she decided to pull together an anthology of reflections on heaven. Linda had been imagining heaven since the loss of her mother when she was seven. The death of her beloved husband Jack in 2006 created a more urgent need to imagine the heaven where they would one day

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00:03:53

#24 Edgar and Harley

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2024/06/12

I signed up for an online writing class in 2007 well before online was even a thing. Sarah Selecky is a Canadian force-to-be-reckoned with. Her class, The Story Course, is informative and inspirational. I can’t remember what specifically prompted the following story, but whatever it was, it worked. I love the man in this story and the cat that adopted him. The story, entitled Edgar & Harley, won 3rd place in the Charlotte Writer’s Club Flash Fiction Contest in 2016.

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00:04:55

#23 Kenny's Barbershop

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2024/06/11

The following are memories of my dad’s barber shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His original barber license was issued on December 10th, 1929, one month after his 19th birthday, in Jonesville, Michigan. I call this little recounting “Kenny’s Barber Shop”

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#26 The Story Behind the "Belmont Ford" Painting and...

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2024/06/10

If you found your way here via a QR code on a poster, you are looking at a picture based on David Childers’ song “Belmont Ford”.I’m Mary Struble Deery, the co-writer of “Belmont Ford”.The song is on David’s album “Run, Skeleton, Run”. The picture you are looking at was painted by David’s son, Robert. What follows is the story behind the song and the painting…Keep listening and you’ll learn how I became interested in the catastrophic flood of 1916The poem I wrote about it, entitled “When the River

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00:05:44

#27 Loosey Goosey - A Golf Story

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2024/06/09

The Charlotte Writer’s Club teamed up with Seniorliving community Southminister, for an Ekphrastic Writing Contest. Remember,Ekphrastic writing is that inspired by a work of visual art. Writers werepaired with Southminister artists and challenged to write a no-more-than 300word poem or story in response to a work of art created by that resident.I was assigned a watercolor of amother goose traipsing through the grass followed by her two goslings. Thischarming picture was painted by Nancy Minnick

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#22 My Plea for Young'uns to Adopt an Ancient

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2023/07/31

Another WFAE Radio Commentary.

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#21 Some of the Perils of Facebook

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2023/07/31

Another WFAE Radio Commentary.

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00:07:39

#20 Catching Fireflies in the Bar

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2023/03/31

The piece you’re about to hear won first place in the 2022 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Contest. The way this story came to be crystallizes why I love to write. Most everyone has enjoyed the sport of firefly catching, and that’s how the story started – reflecting on wonderful summer nights in my backyard. Setting the story in a bar with flashing lights added another layer. This flash piece (that’s funny…it’s actually a piece of flash fiction) came from who-knows-where as I composed and worked on it

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00:11:23

#19 The Medicine Man

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2023/03/05

The story that follows, "The Medicine Man", was written by my mother. She died in 2008 at the age of 93. She would be so happy that this semi-autobiographical story, based on a childhood experience, is finally seeing the light of day. Esther was a treasure who inhabited the world with immense grace.Voice actor, Kathy Poelker, recorded this tale. I hope you enjoy my mother’s story as much as I do.

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00:03:49

#18 Gone Astray

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2023/02/01

The following piece won First Place in the 2015 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Contest. The judge of the contest, Mary Curtis, said this about Gone Astray: "The simplicity of the story is effective, and deceptive. Through the protagonist, you learn the whole story and get a sense of an entire cast of characters. The writer conveys a roller coaster of emotions – humor, sadness, ruefulness, self pity, empathy – and reveals a sophisticated touch. In a few words, the author created a complicated character –

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#17 Not Dead Yet - Mary's Eulogy

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2022/11/18

Awhile ago I wrote a little something to be read at my funeral, or whatever will take place after my passing. And now that our cremations have been paid for, I might as well also record my eulogy. Who knows when that grim reaper with his trusty scythe might be comin’ ‘round the corner? Note the music source: "Promises to Keep" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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00:04:55

#16 Awaiting the Christmas Photo

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2022/10/25

This little conjuring is based on a Writer’s Digest photo prompt of a fellow standing in front of a Christmas tree. It is what I imagined the poor sod might be going through. The very talented voice actor, Neil Boone, brought the character to life.

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00:07:33

#15 -- Crematon

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2022/10/22

Before these recordings, I used to read some of my pieces to friends…sort of like a live podcast at the dinner table. The one that follows, about us contracting with a cremation service, prompted our friends, Terry and John to do the same. They gave this cremation service as a present to each other last year for Christmas. John died last week. Terry only needed to make one phone call and everything was handled. She was very grateful for their help. So, even though this true recounting of our

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#14 Getting Old is Hell - Musing on NPR

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2022/08/22

The following is my second essay--or musing--that aired on Charlotte’s local NPR station. This commentary was a response to receiving a direct mail solicitation about a motorized wheelchair. Yeah, I’m aging, but nowhere near needing that device! This musing is entitled “Getting Old is Hell”.

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#13 Mister and Miscommunication

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2022/08/04

This conjuring was inspired by a “who’s on first”-type conversations I had with my older brother, Dan. You may know a couple named Myrna and Guy, but they are not the people in this fictitious tale. I just happen to like the names. This tiny story, recorded by the talented Neil Boone, I call “Mister and Miscommunication “.

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#12 -- Saving Francis Ford Coppola, A Musing

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2022/06/18

On Bois Blanc Island in Michigan, the place we visit in the summer, there are no grocery stores. So, supplies hauled over on the one-and-only ferry are a precious commodity, especially alcohol. This musing, my recollection of a real event, is about the tragic loss of a bottle of gold-labeled Francis Ford Coppola Cabernet while enroute to the island.

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#11 The Timekeeper - Ekphrastic Writing, Turned...

Mary"s "Maginings and Musings ·

2022/06/17

The Mooresville Art Gallery in North Carolina turned the idea of Ekphrastic Writing on its head. Usually ekphrastic writing is based on a work of art, a la the book The Girl with the Pearl Earring, written by Tracy Chevalier, which is based on the subject in a painting by Vermeer. However, Mooresville challenged artists to do the opposite – create a work of art based on a piece of writing. My poem, about a clock that resides in our Bois Blanc Island, Michigan cottage inspired two artists, Sue

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#10 The Weaning Party

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2022/05/23

He was almost four years old for god’s sake. A bit late for a weaning party, I thought. But, Julie is an earthy, touchy feely mother – in fact president of the La Leche League -- so who was I to tell her when to quit breast feeding?

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#9 Snakes on Demand

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2022/05/19

In 2014 the alternative press newspaper, Creative Loafing, ran a short story contest. The prompt was “I forgot to pay my heat bill”. That was the genesis for this tale. It didn’t win then. It needed lots of work. Over the past 8 years, I edited and edited the story, one adjustment was to make it “media res”….so when the story opens it’s Ed discovering that the snakes he was planning to sell to regional churches had frozen because someone didn’t pay the heat bill. I had a brother who was a naturalist

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