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Wobbly today is about being tired, being silent, and launching books.
Wobbly today is about being tired, being silent, and launching books.
My Wobbly Bicycle, 329 — Fleda Brown
That’s it. I’m exhausted. I’m so exhausted (add to this my back pain) I’m not planning any more readings for a while. But the book launch was wonderful! A large room full of people! I should have had ...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Wobbly today is about being tired, being silent, and launching books.
Wobbly today is about being tired, being silent, and launching books.
This evening in Bellaire!
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This evening in Bellaire!
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Speaking out, however wobbly, on Wobbly today.
Speaking out, however wobbly, on Wobbly today.
My Wobbly Bicycle, 328 — Fleda Brown
One friend’s wife is dying and is already gone in a sense with vascular dementia. Another has just been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Another’s husband is very slowly giving way to dementia. My back ...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Speaking out, however wobbly, on Wobbly today.
Speaking out, however wobbly, on Wobbly today.
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My interview with myself: illuminating!
My interview with myself: illuminating!
My Wobbly Bicycle, 327 — Fleda Brown
I INTERVIEW MYSELF ABOUT MY NEW BOOK, THE END OF THE CLOCKWORK UNIVERSE: Q: I’m so happy to spend this time with you, Fleda, to talk about your new book! I’m a great fan. I’ve read every wo...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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My interview with myself: illuminating!
My interview with myself: illuminating!
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Monday's poem I dug out of the attic where I store the old ones.
Monday's poem I dug out of the attic where I store the old ones.
In Praise of Autumn
An old poem I'd forgotten about.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Monday's poem I dug out of the attic where I store the old ones.
Monday's poem I dug out of the attic where I store the old ones.
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Every Monday I post an old poem I don't want to be forgotten. At least not now.
Every Monday I post an old poem I don't want to be forgotten. At least not now.
Way Too Much Sugar
But that's how it is when you're young.
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September 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Every Monday I post an old poem I don't want to be forgotten. At least not now.
Every Monday I post an old poem I don't want to be forgotten. At least not now.
www.fledabrown.com/blog/my-wobb... Some thoughts on staying engaged, on Wobbly today.
My Wobbly Bicycle, 326 (Copy) — Fleda Brown
Staying engaged can apply to writing, to poetry, as well as to the political situation. You’d think you couldn’t help it, as a writer, but there are deeper levels of being engaged. Some of them involv...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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A poem from The End of the Clockwork Universe, available now from Carnegie Mellon U. Press but actually launching on Oct. 7.
A poem from The End of the Clockwork Universe, available now from Carnegie Mellon U. Press but actually launching on Oct. 7.
Catalytic Converters
A free poem from my new book. Now would you order the book?
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September 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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A poem from The End of the Clockwork Universe, available now from Carnegie Mellon U. Press but actually launching on Oct. 7.
A poem from The End of the Clockwork Universe, available now from Carnegie Mellon U. Press but actually launching on Oct. 7.
www.fledabrown.com/blog/my-wobb... Today's Wobbly is all prose poems, backache, and mushrooms, mushrooms!
My Wobbly Bicycle, 325 — Fleda Brown
My back’s been painful all summer. Finally, after MRI and x-rays, the source has been identified, cortisone injected last Thursday, and I’m feeling much better. For now at least. But still, there’s li...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Today's Wobbly about writers and their marriages.
Today's Wobbly about writers and their marriages.
My Wobbly Bicycle, 324 — Fleda Brown
Our 34th anniversary was Saturday. Who would’ve thought? We’ve had this many good years together! I don’t know how it would be, two poets living and working together. It could be great, helping each...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Today's Wobbly about writers and their marriages.
Today's Wobbly about writers and their marriages.
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In today's Wobbly, talk a little about The End of the Clockwork Universe, that comes out in October.
In today's Wobbly, talk a little about The End of the Clockwork Universe, that comes out in October.
My Wobbly Bicycle, 323 — Fleda Brown
Hot! We now have ceiling fans in every room of the two cottages, minus one, which will happen as soon as the electrician can get to it. And, with whatever’s going on with my hip, I can’t swim or even ...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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In today's Wobbly, talk a little about The End of the Clockwork Universe, that comes out in October.
In today's Wobbly, talk a little about The End of the Clockwork Universe, that comes out in October.
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When a bird loses its mate. A poem.
When a bird loses its mate. A poem.
You Are Breaking My Heart
Listening to a lone bird
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August 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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When a bird loses its mate. A poem.
When a bird loses its mate. A poem.
Reposted
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Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!
Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!
The End of the Clockwork Universe
A luminous new perspective on aging, science, and the tender strangeness of being alive. What does it mean to exist in a universe that refuses to stay still? In The End of the Clockwork Universe, Fled...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!
Taking time off. And a little poem.
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My Wobbly Bicycle, 322 — Fleda Brown
Dear friends, I’m taking time off. Everyone needs time off, I’d say. In the meantime, here’s a little prose poem for you.
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July 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Taking time off. And a little poem.
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Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!
Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!
The End of the Clockwork Universe
A luminous new perspective on aging, science, and the tender strangeness of being alive. What does it mean to exist in a universe that refuses to stay still? In The End of the Clockwork Universe, Fled...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!
Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!
Here's the faculty of this year's Interlochen Writers' Retreat. I love these people. I gave a craft talk on "Coming to Terms with Disorder, Disruption, and Just Plain Evil." I have never gotten to speak at a more important time.
June 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Here's the faculty of this year's Interlochen Writers' Retreat. I love these people. I gave a craft talk on "Coming to Terms with Disorder, Disruption, and Just Plain Evil." I have never gotten to speak at a more important time.
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A new dock. And change as the nature of nature. On Wobbly this time.
A new dock. And change as the nature of nature. On Wobbly this time.
My Wobbly Bicycle, 318 — Fleda Brown
We got our new dock. I’ll forever miss the wooden one, but it was rotting. We were, I’m pretty sure, the last holdouts on the lake to ask the dock people to install and take out a heavy 4’ woode...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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A new dock. And change as the nature of nature. On Wobbly this time.
A new dock. And change as the nature of nature. On Wobbly this time.
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A trip to Detroit.
A trip to Detroit.
My Wobbly Bicycle, 317 — Fleda Brown
My retirement community, some of us, took a bus trip to Detroit. It’s not so far away, a first try at trips out of town sponsored by the “club,” as we’re called. After having lived on the east coast f...
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May 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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A trip to Detroit.
A trip to Detroit.
Join me with these splendid poets on the 29th!
May 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Join me with these splendid poets on the 29th!
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Yeah, I know--the cover once again. But it's a great one, isn't it? Today's Wobbly about chapbooks and stuff.
Yeah, I know--the cover once again. But it's a great one, isn't it? Today's Wobbly about chapbooks and stuff.
My Wobbly Bicycle, 316 — Fleda Brown
A chapbook is a funny thing. So tiny, sometimes it seems embarrassingly barely more than a flyer. Yet it has those words, those poems, each one worked over and over. Little jewels, you would say, if y...
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May 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Yeah, I know--the cover once again. But it's a great one, isn't it? Today's Wobbly about chapbooks and stuff.
Yeah, I know--the cover once again. But it's a great one, isn't it? Today's Wobbly about chapbooks and stuff.
Talk Radio
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Talk Radio
A poem from "No Need of Sympathy"
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April 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Talk Radio
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