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Nov.29.2008
Greatest Blessings from My 2008 Social Media Adventures by Ananda LeekeCopyright 2008 by Madelyn C. Leeke
Excerpt from That Which Awakens Me (Winter 2009, iUniverse, Inc.)
This year social media has given me the opportunity to develop a cost-effective market strategy to support my debut novel, Love...
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Oct.31.2008
On this damp evening in San Francisco, I have just put up on my Author's Page a memoir and meditation on the first time I heard Orson Welles' Mercury Theater on the Air adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds." That would have been on Sunday, October 30, 1938 -- seventy years...
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Oct.31.2008
I've decided to start a blog to document a bit of my mischief here at Red Room, so that perhaps someone might appreciate it.
For some reason someone assigned me the job of staff photographer for Halloween, even though the camera's twice my size. Whose idea was that?
Without much further ado, (...
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Oct.29.2008
Attendees at an Obama campaign rally, listening to a speech delivered by Barack Obama, in Nevada. Image Credit: AFP
Bradley Effect To Obama Effect - Change We Need
After twenty-six years, we, at MAXINE, believe it is time for a change. The change we need would come in the form of a name change...
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Oct.29.2008
America 2008 by Ananda Leeke(an excerpt from That Which Awakens Me: A Woman's Poetic Memoir)
Copyright 2008 by Madelyn C. Leeke.
My fingers are typing rapidly. They are trying to capture and transform the thoughts in my head into sentences that make sense and hopefully offer insight to those that...
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Oct.29.2008
For the past few weeks, western media has been running stories on how "Hindus are driving out Christians" in India. New York Times (never the best of sources, but apprently widely read in that country) recently ran a headline screaming "Hindus Threat to Christians - Convert of Flee....
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Oct.27.2008
I don’t know which is scarier: The American landscape the next President of the United States is destined to inherit, the people who will make that decision (us), or the fact that these two guys seem to want it so bad. Or do they? Did you ever think of that? Maybe John McCain is deliberately trying...
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Aug.12.2008
Feeling blue...the Watercube will change the face of sports architecture. /// Known officially as the National Aquatics Center, the Watercube has been dubbed the "cool" building of the Games. /// The building's design and its translucent, blue-toned outer skin make it look like a cube of...
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Aug.10.2008
I'm so blown away by the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics that words seem superfluous. Hyperboles are inadequate. There are the obvious things to write about like the melding of athletics and artistry, an intricate interplay so grandly expressing the designer's vision of genius, so...
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Jul.16.2008
I'm feeling vaguely unsettled this morning. And for once, it has nothing to do with the massive heaps of chicken alfredo I shoveled down yesterday evening.
I had a psychic flash. I saw the future.
(Don't scoff. This happens to me from time to time. For instance, as a lad of 17 back in 1972 I sat...
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