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Apr.15.2013
I've started a new exercise regime. My phone app tracks calorie intake and exercise but I still have to pedal. For my 60th birthday my wife gave me a bicycle, custom built to fit my 6' 9" frame. My very first bicycle. Finally.
Bicycles are important to me because growing up in a Birmingham, UK slum...
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Mar.09.2013
I splurged one year and called the heating/cooling place in the spring to hook up my swamp cooler.
As a moderate do-it-yourselfer raised by extreme do-it-yourselfers, there’s usually nothing I can’t do as long as I have access to the internet and enough time (measured in days and weeks, mind...
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Jul.13.2012
Continued from Part 4.
Towards the end of last year, I finally completed the manuscript for my first novel, Leather to the Corinthians. After the experience of writing it, I know that my second novel will come much easier, as I took a convoluted path and made several bizarre choices in...
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Jun.01.2012
Continued from: Part 1
What had distracted me during high school, the time when you have all this energy and that youthful need to speak your mind and share your infinite wisdom? What kept me disconnected from inspiration?
High school had been tough. Yours was probably too. Maybe it’s supposed...
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May.30.2012
This was posted on the wall of my personal Facebook yesterday:
Skimming through your blog, more specifically Leather to the Corinthians. Everything you've posted was f@#!ing unreal. Is it getting published? Cause I would buy that sh#t in a heartbeat. I would buy 10, and give them to friends to...
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Sep.08.2011
Let’s face it, I've been living in the sticks for a little over a week and already I’ve let Caroline Ingalls down.
When a large brown van came barreling up the lane in a cloud of dust the first day by my lonesome, I realized how truly vulnerable I was. Going over to an unpacked box near the coffee...
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May.11.2011
This week someone cut the locks to our gate and pilfered items from our land. Although the thievery could have been far worse, it still feels violating. A few days before that, my husband and I drove out to the property with our stomachs in knots, anxious to see if the deluge of rain had flooded...
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Feb.07.2011
You've probably heard the news by now. Bitch Magazine created a list of "100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader." Some people complained about the inclusion of some of the titles, the magazine removed those titles, then even more people got upset, and 418 comments later...
Put it...
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Jan.08.2010
For work, I am an editorial assistant at Routledge books in New York. Where there is a certain lack of creativity here, as I work on academic texts, I moonlight as founding editor of Caper Literary Journal, an electronic salon of poetry and prose. I founded this for a few reasons: inspire people...
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Dec.27.2009
My short story collection A Long Way from Disney has just hit Amazon's Kindle store. As you know, I'm a big believer of experiments in publishing and this time I'm trying something new.
I'm releasing my book on the Amazon Kindle store to see what kind of sales I can generate. I hope you'll come...
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