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stan-lynde's picture
Oct.14.2012
  Read about Calamity Jane this week in Stan Lynde's Cowboy Lore & Legend:  Montana Facts.   http://stanlyndeauthor.com/?page_id=3390   bb    
rina-macasaet's picture
Aug.08.2012
“As of 5:45 AM Marikina River water level is now at 20.37 meters and still on the rise.  Residents of Marikina please be alerted and move away from low-lying areas near Marikina River NOW!  Residents of Marikina FORCED EVACUATION call ongoing #mmda” This was Twitter’s announcement early...
rina-macasaet's picture
Aug.08.2012
I don’t mean the showering of good karma or abundant blessings. I mean rainfall. Rain, rain, rain and still more rain. It sure is pouring abundantly!   Unfortunately, this is not good karma. Monsoon downpour day after day has caused major dams to overflow, streets clogged with water higher...
cheryl-l-snell's picture
Jun.18.2008
I was thinking about how Alice Walker once kept a sign over her office desk which would cause her some trouble later. It was to remind her about obstacles other writers had faced, and stared down: Woolf had madness, Eliot was ostracized, Austen had no privacy, the Brontes died young and dependent,...