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From the sublime(?) to the ridiculous …
If my photo below brings to mind a memory or otherwise inspires you to do some writing, I hope you’ll share a comment.
And there is a story behind this, which I’ll share anon.
View more of my photos here.
And drop in on the following writer friends for further Wordlessness:
Carin Makuz at Matilda Magtree
Elizabeth Yeoman at Wunderkamera
Allison Howard will return next week
Write now! Deadline for UofT School of Continuing Studies writing competition is almost here
Friday, May 24, 2013.
That’s the deadline for submissions to this year’s Random House of Canada Student Award for Fiction.
If you were enrolled in a course offered by the Creative Writing Program at University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies between May 15, 2012 and May 15, 2013 (today!), YOU’RE ELIGIBLE.
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If my photo below brings to mind a memory or otherwise inspires you to do some writing, I hope you’ll share a comment.
View more of my photos here.
And drop in on the following writer friends for further Wordlessness:
Carin Makuz at Matilda Magtree
Elizabeth Yeoman at Wunderkamera
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Explore Memoir Writing at the Distillery Historic District, May 17 (and check out my other workshops)
New Downtown Workshop Location!
I’m excited about this central venue for my writing workshops: artist Heather Gentleman’s studio, Hag Atelier, in the lively, creativity-inspiring Distillery Historic District. The first workshop will take place May 17.
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If my photo below brings to mind a memory or otherwise inspires you to do some writing, I hope you’ll share a comment.
All Wordless Wednesday photos appearing on this website are my own, other than the occasional older family photo, e.g., one I shared of my grandmother Evelyn Jeffrey, a singer and voice teacher, with contralto Marian Anderson.

©2013 Allyson Latta
On Memory: Study Finds Our Memories Can Be Reactivated During Sleep

“El Sueño” by Antonio Cortina Farinós (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
From “Reactivating Memories During Sleep: Memory Rehearsal During Sleep Can Make a Big Difference in Remembering Later” (Science Daily, April 13, 2013):
“Why do some memories last a lifetime while others disappear quickly? A new study suggests that memories rehearsed, during either sleep or waking, can have an impact on memory consolidation and on what is remembered later.























































