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Mar.23.2011
Oh, wow, do I have a lot to learn. I attended a friend's workshop last night at our local writer's conference (that's going on all week) about how to use the media to promote your book/s. She packed in so much information in 3 hours that my head is still spinning. I already know about the various...
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Jun.15.2010
"Your files have been published." A simple sentence. A passive sentence. The kind of sentence I email to my fellow employees dozens of times a day. An exclamation of boredom. A cry for help. Save me from the abyss! Do they hear my plea? They do not. Unless there is some hidden meaning...
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May.19.2010
My characters have much more interesting lives than my own. Every day for them is an adventure. Oh sure, occasionally they're murdered or dismembered, but they will never die of boredom or suffer the unending horror of having a day job. Many of them have cool cars and nice houses and get to have...
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Mar.28.2010
It's not easy to be a public school teacher in New Jersey these days. If you live in my area, or know our news, you've probably heard that Governor Chris Christie issued an executive order that called for deep and damaging cuts to school budgets all over the state. In my district alone, we were...
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Mar.24.2010
That's what it's been since 2006 when my first novel, Arirang: The Bamboo Connection, was published. I enjoyed writing that book with a passion that is beyond expression. Every minute beyond my day job was consumed with writing, edits, changes, and finally the promotion of the finished 497 pages...
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Feb.07.2010
Sitting here this Sunday eve, I start to feel the effects of PMS; “pre-Monday Syndrome.” Now mind you I am blessed in the fact that my work week actually starts on Tuesday so I am spared what many feel in a handful of hours from now.
Monday mornings, I do have to return to my drill sergeant duties...
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Jan.07.2010
I don't blog here often enough. If I had to give myself a resolution, it would be to write something here more often. Better yet, it would be to have something worth writing here more often. So, the weekly writing prompts that Red Room sends out? Not a bad place to start.
Since this week's topic is...
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Dec.17.2009
At holiday time I try to remember the people in my working life whose presence I tend to take for granted. The women cited below however, are worth a darn sight more than a votive candle or a modestly priced bottle of wine:
My hair stylist. It may be shallow, but every woman knows the value of a...
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Jun.20.2009
I was one of those girls who loved school. I didn't dread September the way my friends did, because with September came a stack of shiny new school supplies. (In You've Got Mail, when Tom Hanks tells Meg Ryan he'd like to buy her a bouquet of yellow pencils to celebrate the fall, I fell in love...
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May.08.2009
"Seek the truth."
"Minimize harm."
I tell my students that these are the two ethical principles that guide any publication, including school newspapers. But when one must be weighed against the other, we face a dilemma, and this happens more often than we'd like.
My...
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