Gwendolyn Hudson

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  1. Help! I'm Addicted to K Cups

    2/3/10 12:28pm by Gwendolyn Hudson
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    I like to think I'm a good person and at least a pale shade of green.  My recycling trash container is always much fuller than than the one that contains, well, trash.  I buy recyled, local, organic, advocate for sustainable solutions at the architectural office I work at.  I know what Cradle to Cradle is, unplug electrical things when I can and when they aren't needed....I really really try to be a good person.But my partner's daughter gave him a Keurig coffee maker for Christmas.  Read more >

  2. Me and Oral Roberts

    12/16/09 5:38pm by Gwendolyn Hudson
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    Heal!! He laid on hands, this intense, florid man, sweating and teary eyed.  The man, woman, or child kneeling at his feet--if they weren't on a stretcher or in a wheel chair--frequently were crying too.  Their stories had been told, their need for healing proclaimed to the heavens and the congregation--along with us out in television land. Oral Roberts seemed to wrest miracles from Jesus; the physical effort was evident .  Nothing gentle about this.  Read more >

  3. Delete: The Key to Surviving the Holidays Semi-Sane & Somewhat Solvent

    11/24/09 3:34pm by Gwendolyn Hudson
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    HearthSong is having an incredible sale.  Lands End has free shipping.  Amazon knows just what I love to read.  Sephora can make me beautiful and send me free samples, too.  Airlines are begging me to fly and hotels are almost willing to pay me to stay.Every penny I have is allocated before my automatic deposit hits my account.  Read more >

  4. Riding the Invisible Dragon

    11/19/09 5:40pm by Gwendolyn Hudson
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    Once upon a time there was a princess who set at her desk most of the day and wept.  She tried to hide her face from others because weeping at her desk was not in her job description. There were times she wept because something sad had happened, but sometimes she wept because the dragon she was riding dove for the ground.   Read more >

  5. I Am Like SO Sure

    11/16/09 1:45pm by Gwendolyn Hudson
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    Monday, November 9, 2009  Read more >

  6. Letting Go at Christmas (Hanukkah and Kwanzaa too along with the Solstice and Boxing Day)

    11/11/09 2:26pm by Gwendolyn Hudson
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    Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away.... No, that's not how it begins even if it feels that way sometimes.   Once upon a time I was the mommy, the big sister, and the hostess for the holidays.  I had the children (grandchildren).  Family came to us.Primarily what I remember is exhaustion.  Up late filling stockings, putting together whatever toys had to be assembled and why did we always buy such?  Getting the turkey ready to go in the morning.  Read more >

  7. I THINK I Believe in Being Positive. Maybe (Barefoot on the Ground)

    11/10/09 6:04pm by Gwendolyn Hudson
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    Oh, Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief" used to be one of my favorite prayers--along with "Send my roots rain," and "please, please, please let there be enough money in my account to cover that last check."  (I don't know if it's true there are no atheists in foxholes, but I'm pretty damn sure there aren't too many the day before payday when you really needed that check two days earlier.)  Read more >

Gwendolyn Hudson

Full Name
Gwendolyn Hudson
Member Since
December 2007
About Me: 
Sheesh--why does the title "grandmother" always come to mind first? Maybe because being grandma has turned out to be one the very very best roles of my life? Anyway, I'm Gwen. I live in Oxnard, California, which is a town/city on the coast between LA and Santa Barbara. Divorced, four kids, four grandkids from the children I gave birth to and a multitude of kids I claim through friends. Granma Gwen is my favorite name. I was an artsy geeky kid before geek was a word--figured I would either be an "old maid" academic who would die alone in an apartment filled with cats--or live in the Village, write, suffer, have scandalous affairs, die young and leave behind an incredible body of work. Or maybe I would be Margaret Bourke White? (Dressed in early noncorporate Banana Republic.) Instead, after a mobile childhood as a Marine Corps brat, I ended up married and by age 23 was settled in Oxnard--with 2 kids at that time. Not exactly what I planned but turns out Mick is right and you don't always get what you want--but you get what you need. I write--care about a helluva lot of things and really like to think about all sorts of shit and endlessly process those things for everyone's delight and enlightenment. Most of the money I've made in writing has been in nonfiction--mostly how to raise your teen kind of things. Right now I work at the family business as marketing person and receptionist (hey, these is hard times), so that I have health insurance. Feel in love a little over a year ago which still strikes me as amazing, unlikely, and damned wonderful. This world is filled with beauty and laughter and horrendous pain, kindness, stupidity--my hope is to contribute less to the pain and stupidity and more to the kindness and laughter. Working on it. Bio goes on because I'm still alive. When I'm not someone else will finish it.
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