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Apr.24.2009
Before this evening's cocktail hour began, before the wine was poured, and before Wally Lamb began to speak to the roomful of hopeful writers, I dashed out of the historically-infused landmark General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen building where the New York Center for Independent...
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Apr.21.2009
In wanting to become an author. I began writing fiction, I soon realized, I was not writing fiction but non-fiction based of real happenings in my life.
I wrote in the third person. I regurgitated horrible incidents in my life. As I put pen to paper it was easy to write them in another persona...
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Apr.19.2009
The Writers in the Schools program (Houston) sent me this lovely poem by 4th grader Cody, titled Ink Heart:
What the night hides:/a stranger in the dark,/ fire and stars, /snakes and thorns,/ a house full of books,/a night full of words,/ the lion's den,/...
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Apr.15.2009
It occurred to me earlier tonight that I never posted the final update on the saga of ARCs and eBay, so I thought I should tie up that loose end here. As you might recall (or will see if you follow the original link :) ), an ARC of my novel The Third Sign showed up on eBay a few weeks ago--strange...
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Apr.09.2009
Here are some poems by the Zen master Ryokan, one of my favorites:
How can we ever lose interest in life?/Spring has come again/ And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.
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I came to this village to see the peach blossoms/ but spent the day instead/ Looking at the flowers along the river bank...
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Apr.04.2009
An article that just ran in the local newspaper/magazine here in Kentucky… :-)....
COMMANDING WORDS....
By ROBERT VILLANUEVA....rvillanueva@thenewsenterprise.com....
FORT KNOX — At the military installation where he works, Col. John Fenzel commands an Army brigade, but he is counting on his...
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Mar.31.2009
Excitement! Excitement! My new children's fantasy novel, Shadowland, came out today! (For a description and excerpt, see www.chitradivakaruni.com). It is a stand alone book, but it's also the final novel in the Brotherhood of the Conch trilogy, a project I began in 2002--a long haul. I want to...
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Mar.29.2009
Today many of our children and Young aults are not reading as they should.Many are too intuned with the technology and the fast past of the mordern world.Jk rowling broke the mle when she got everyone to star reading again,and to believe in Fairy tales.Now that Harry Potter is coming to a close who...
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Mar.29.2009
The other day I read Malcolm Gladwell's The Outliers in my book club (I belong to one, too) & it made me think about how we owe our success to so many people. How much we have to be thankful for.
When I was in my 20s (yes, ancient history), I was visiting The Divine Life ashram in Rishikesh,...
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Mar.28.2009
One of my readers, Karen, asked for a recipe, and here it is.
I should confess up front that I'm not a gourmet cook, not even close. My long-suffering family will vouch to that. When my two boys were little, I felt ambitious and American one Thanksgiving and made mashed...
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