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Friday Footnote: How to Spot a Geisha
If you look at the painting attached to this post, you will see the back of a maiko. I painted this from a photograph that I took during the Gion…
Sep 2
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Alia Luria
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August 2023
You Might Eat Organic, but You're Still Full of Baloney
Published by Northwest Review in Volume 50, Issue 02, Winter, 2021
Aug 25
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Alia Luria
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Paralysis
Published in in Toho Journal, Vol 2, Issue 2, Winter 2020
Aug 25
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Alia Luria
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Friday Footnote: How to say "No" in Japanese
The finger X, hand X, or forearm X (you may have noticed 🙅🏻♀️ among your emojis and wondered about it) is a common sign employed by Japanese people…
Aug 25
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Alia Luria
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On Dealing with Manipulative Behavior
So, as a writer and knit designer, I keep certain social media accounts public. I use these accounts for updating readers, posting about projects, doing…
Aug 22
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Alia Luria
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Friday Footnote: Masada at Dawn
As the sun rises over the expansive desert and kisses the ruins on the top of Mount Masada, I am overcome with a burning desire to keel over and…
Aug 21
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June 2021
Amos Burton, the Unlikely Sage
On the occasion of family turmoil, I've done a lot of thinking about anger. There seems to be a lot of it around me, although none of it is actually…
Jun 23, 2021
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Alia Luria
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April 2021
You Might Eat Organic Has a Home!
I’m super excited, because this week, Northwest Review, finally released their Winter 2021 edition with my short non-fiction piece in it. The piece is…
Apr 22, 2021
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Alia Luria
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July 2020
Why I'm choosing to Launch My Next Novel With Publishizer
As an attorney, a novelist, and an entrepreneur, I know I’m equipped to go independent with my next novel. I released my first novel, Compendium, under…
Jul 18, 2020
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April 2020
In Consideration of Turning 43
Hello, old friend. No, really. It's been a really, really long time since I've written anything substantive here. So long, in fact, that even doing a…
Apr 10, 2020
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Alia Luria
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June 2019
On Happiness
When I think about this calendar year objectively, it's hard to justify calling it the happiest year of my life, but it is. As it stands, it's been 7…
Jun 24, 2019
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September 2018
On Recognizing Love
Peonies grow in The place inside my heart that Your love inhabits I originally wrote this haiku about a beautiful friend of mine last year, back when I…
Sep 24, 2018
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Alia Luria
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What We Leave Behind
It's been a long time since I have given this blog a real update, mostly because I've been firing on all cylinders over the last 5 months or so, first…
Sep 10, 2018
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Alia Luria
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March 2018
MFA, Travel, and General News!
Howdy, there. It has been a while since I've done any blogging, but in my defense, things have been and continue to be ultra busy. I thought it was…
Mar 28, 2018
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Alia Luria
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October 2017
On Other Worlds than These
I have been blazing through the rest of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King these last couple of weeks. I took a long break after reading The…
Oct 1, 2017
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Alia Luria
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September 2017
On Loss and Mourning
Last night, after a couple of lengthy and very cathartic conversations with two incredibly different and yet equally strong and compelling women, I…
Sep 14, 2017
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On Unreasonable Expectations
Someone asked me, “Who hurt you?” I replied, “My own expectations.” I can’t find an attribution for this quote, so if anyone knows where it originated…
Sep 4, 2017
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Alia Luria
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August 2017
On Positivity in Daily Life
The last couple of years have been a really long journey for me in shedding the baggage picked up from various parts of my life. This year in…
Aug 29, 2017
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Alia Luria
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Haiku and Thoughts (Veniss Underground / The War of Art)
My words flow freely Through time and space and sadness Like sand through fingers I don't exactly remember when I wrote this haiku. I do know that it's…
Aug 19, 2017
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Alia Luria
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June 2017
Confluence: Yarn, Knitting, and Barbara Kingsolver
Well, here we are. This is my first non-Close Reading blog post (not counting quotes and albums) in a really long time. Life has been a bit of a winding…
Jun 4, 2017
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Alia Luria
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Confluence: Yarn, Knitting, and Barbara Kingsolver
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May 2017
Exploiting Folklore as a Plot Tactic in Martin's Fevre Dream
Before I jump into it, just a brief note. As part of my MFA, I was required to read at least 50 books and write a craft analysis of twelve of these…
May 31, 2017
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Alia Luria
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Externalizing the Internal in Shusterman's Challenger Deep
Challenger Deep, a young adult novel by Neal Shusterman, tackles the complex reality of being a schizophrenic (or schizoaffective – it is not made…
May 25, 2017
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Alia Luria
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POV Shifts in Bardugo's Six of Crows
Six of Crows, a novel by Leigh Bardugo set in a world where certain talented people called Grisha are manipulated, persecuted or enslaved, is a young…
May 20, 2017
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