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Oct.15.2010
Today is a big day for me. It rolls around every year and I reflect back on what it was like for me on October 15, 1999. It was the first day I didn’t smoke crack after smoking daily for months. I was moving to Los Angeles that day with my parents and Joe, who I’d been living with, my crack...
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Oct.08.2010
My detective Sammy Shovel series is being published. The first, An Adventurous Night, will be out mid November. It introduces my protagonist, Sammy Shovel. Not being a police detective, he finds the "why" all the killing and mayhem take place. This first one is filled with Christmas...
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Sep.26.2010
I recently did a Lamplighter presentation in Sedona, AZ for an organization called Kinship Kare of Northern Arizona (KKONA). They provide support for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. As a grandmother myself I couldn't imagine raising a grandchild at my age. Where would I get the...
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Sep.20.2010
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Barack Obama is a reformed doper, so of course he's against legalizing marijuana.
Another disappointment for the legions of politically progressive fans who'd taken to Obamania as though it was its own opiate. Who is this guy, anyway? He's said he smoked dope and snorted coke in his youth...
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Sep.09.2010
Publicity is the life-blood of success in any mass-market endeavor, from pop-culture to politics to... writing.
For that reason, it behooves all of us to carefully study those whose name alone can seize the public spotlight-- and in this, the mere mention of celebrity Paris Hilton is an...
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Jul.28.2010
It's amazing what sticks out in your mind when you're only 3 years-old. I firmly believe that in order for a human being of that age to remember something until adulthood, that they can recollect into a coherent thought process on paper or even in a blog, it would take something profound to have...
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May.31.2010
If you did not look at the fruit, you would think it was all about love. Now David Bellingham, a programme director at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, says the fruit was overlooked and so was the subversive message in Botticelli’s painting:
“This fruit is being offered to the viewer, so it is...
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May.29.2010
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, by Richard Fariña
Buddhist theory, I’ve heard, proclaims that the human nervous system’s prime function is to find (create, perhaps) order within chaos. Fariña’s book, as a prototype for what is popularly known as postmodern literature, seems to toy...
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May.24.2010
Lines Excised from the 5th Poem About Your Death
Then you said, I'm not really your mother. How, when you took off your shirt, I saw your black-winged bra cupping your freckled breasts. The Wednesday when you told me you couldn't answer my call last night because you had someone's cock in your...
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Apr.23.2010
Just won this book today, WINDWARD PASSAGE by Jim Nisbet at litdrift.com.
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