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Nov.16.2012
This is a work related rant, so I can respect your wishes not to read it. I mean, it's all about my company and the frustrating structure and policies they create.
To begin, I want to invite you to play some football. You're on a team, on the field. Your team has the ball. ...
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Sep.23.2012
John Dower's comprehensive study of the years during which the Japanese lived under American-led occupation is undoubtedly the masterwork from which many PhD studies have derived. It's a fascinating account of a devastated people wrestling with Japan's responsibility for the...
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Jan.28.2012
I’m not planning to break up with President Obama, but he is definitely giving me flashbacks to relationship dysfunctionality. Tolstoy is forever being quoted on the subject: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” But I don’t think he had it right. There’s...
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Jan.28.2011
I received some excellent news today from the United Way of San Luis Obispo County. My program, “Literacy and Advocacy Youth Challenge” has been selected to receive a 2011 Youth Board Grant! I am really, really, really excited about this because it means I will have many opportunities to share with...
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Oct.11.2010
Today I’m going to begin tackling a topic I will return to numerous times over the next few weeks: why writers don’t start or finish their writing projects. Why am I going to return to the topic? Because more than one answer exists to the question, “What stops you from writing—or finishing—a...
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Sep.18.2010
I was due to have today’s guest on my show previously but it had to be cancelled at the last moment, so I was very pleased to be able to have Jame Richards back as a guest on my show today. We were not let down, and learned much about my guest and her debut book “Three Rivers Rising”.
Jame was the...
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Apr.21.2010
Most writers I know struggle with finding the time, and energy, to complete their writing projects. Many of us hold day jobs or have busy family lives that interfere with quality writing time. One thing I learned from nearly 20 years in the newspaper business is the value of a deadline. There’s...
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Apr.21.2010
Originally posted on April 20, 2010, on The Rag Blog:
After a recent talk on racism and other illegitimate hierarchies at a diversity conference in Dallas, I received a letter from one of the people who had attended that asked "why you feel it necessary to perpetuate and even exacerbate...
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Sep.28.2009
It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Elliot
Who are those happy people on the right? My sons Andrew and Tom, 20-year friend Tracey Bennett and me.
Why are we beaming? Andrew and I just finished the 2.4 mile Waikiki Rough Water Swim.
What motivated me to sign up for...
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Apr.10.2009
If you have not seen the movie, I suggest you do so and more than once. Please do not read this before watching, as one cannot begin to fully discuss this movie without delving into the quarry that is its plot.
For those of you who have experienced Memento (because you do not simply watch a movie...
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