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Apr.02.2013
Maroon Bells, Colorado
By Christopher Cudworth
Toward the end of a week camping in the Maroon Bells of Colorado, that deliciously beautiful chunk of mountain range above Aspen, it occurred to me that a 12 mile run down the mountain might be a bit of fun.
I was very fit at the time, in 31:00...
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Apr.01.2013
I’m a bit late with my Left Coast Crime recap, although I did a comparison of reader vs writer conferences last Thursday at The Blood-Red Pencil. And there IS a big difference. The panels are geared to readers, and rely on moder...
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Dec.26.2012
This last year jittered on the edge of a big bang that fizzled just as surely as the predicted computer apocalypse of 1999. I never believed the whole end of the world portents and fear because I knew that the end of the Mayan calendar was the beginning of a new age and a new calendar. The Mayans...
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Nov.23.2012
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Those of you who are home instead of fighting the crowds at Black Friday sales, a reminder that I’ve got a FREE copy of Deadly Secrets for anyone who wants one. It’s at Smashwords, where you can download it in...
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Nov.03.2012
The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller
image via beatrice.com
It’s sometimes hard to separate the life of an author from his/her works; this was certainly true of James Joyce, Norman Mailer, and Ernest Hemingway, and Heller’s tale here is more or less of that tradition. It’s a dystopian tale of survival...
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Oct.22.2012
Today, I have the privilege of launching the Official Blog Tour of author T. K. Harris. She starts by sharing how her novel, Phantom Dreams, was born.It started with a dream. I know cliché right? But it really did. I had a dream that I was walking through a large crowd of people, surrounded by...
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Jul.23.2012
When it is said that ‘we should not try to understand the mind of another’- it is like asking us to starve rather than eat the last cookie in the jar; it’s not gonna happen. We will eat that cookie. We, being folks who have those ‘literary’ creative spirits. I will not personally...
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Jul.09.2012
Driving up to Silverton today for my job and passed a Suburban with Texas plates. I felt smug and superior, being native and all to mountain driving, mixed as most of us are in Colorado regarding Texas vacationers. I allowed myself the briefest sense of superiority, acknowledged that it felt...
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Jun.28.2012
I am a religious person who prays every day. I believe those prayers have been answered in ways that exceeded the ability to comprehend or imagine how it happened. Having been the beneficiary of answers to my prayers, and to those of others praying for me and us (wife and family) it makes...
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Jan.21.2012
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes – My Life in Music, by Judy Collins
image via betterworldbooks.com
This book begins and ends with Stephen Stills, one of Collins' lovers during the `sixties; certainly a tryst that remains most vivid in her mind. And in between she tells us of her youth in...
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