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Dec.13.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 44 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) Tom Hulce received the go-ahead to direct a workshop of my musical Sleeparound Town. Artistic director Andre Bishop gave his blessing, in his distinctive...	Oct.08.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 43 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) When I was in my twenties and researching a book, I studied the dark art of fleecing men. This technique, and the con women who taught it to me, were the subjects of...
Sep.11.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 42 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) After a year spent in the Third World, everything at home seemed strange: food, TV, supermarket, smells, weather, piano, and home itself, the studio on my...	Aug.31.2012 Channeling August 31 CHANNELING It’s a full feeling to be a channel. Only an empty feeling when it’s blocked at the base of my spine and God can’t go to my head. The river flows through me and my banks will hold. Excuses dam me up and leave a dry and lifeless...
Jul.24.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 41 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) I wanted to be sure that the priapic ghost behind me wasn’t local to Haiti and so, without turning around, I muttered the Muslim prayer I’d learned, “Bismillah...	Jul.09.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 40 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) I planned to stay a month in Haiti to finish my book, a black comedy modeled after one of my favorites, Waugh’s Black Mischief. In the denouement, my heroine brings...
Jun.12.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 39 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) The light of dawn began to fill the bedroom while I slept. Curled on one side, I woke to the sensation of a male body settling onto the bed behind me. I’d read that if...	Jun.06.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 38 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) “You need support by any name.” My mother’s words remained with me after she departed Tangier. I was left with the task of finishing a novel my publisher no longer...
May.29.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 37 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) I used to visit a fortuneteller named Mahjouba in the Marrakesh kasbah, not because I put much stock in her predictions, but because her method fascinated me. I...	May.24.2012 Channelling The Past I've just finished writing a scene for my medieval historical novel - a scene I'd been dreading. It has to do with a famed debate between two philosopher/thinkers, and nothing much had been written about the debate in history's annals. image via pen.org This has come up before -...

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