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Jan.06.2010
No puppy blog this time. Only the faintest tinge of humor. I share with you a medical caveat based on personal experience. But first, a relevant excerpt from that-book-that-has-everything, my novel Highway To Oblivion:
“Patina was being smothered by a dirty rag held by an amorphous hand...
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Nov.14.2009
For more than the last four decades Mexicans have been risking their lives to migrate in larger numbers every year into the United States, escaping life below the poverty level and seeking better pay. Why has Mexico failed to develop its own people?
On September 23, 2009, according to the Los...
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Oct.14.2009
It took me an embarassingly long to to time to realize that before hitting Oz, the Scarecrow already had true brains, the Tin Man a warm heart, the Lion courage, and Dorothy a home wherever she went. The realization came when I watched the film for maybe the third or fourth time. I was 18 and on...
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Oct.12.2009
Here is Week Two of my "Jesse's Girl" book tour. Check out my radio interview tonight with Kim Smith at 8:30PM/ET
Oct. 12 – Dear Author www.dearauthor.com
Introducing Writers! Radio Show (radio show)
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Introducing Writers! Radio Show with Kim Smith (radio...
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Oct.09.2009
Have you ever met an addict? Or perhaps you are one and don't even realize it. I suppose that when you read the title addictions the first words that jump into your mind is drugs or alcohol or gambling. Well, although these are truly addictions that we read about -- too often -- those are not the...
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Sep.29.2009
Thomas Carlyle wrote that “A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.” There may be some debate as to whether Timothy Leary’s life was well-spent. However, his biography by John Higgs is one of the most well-written and compelling books you’ll ever come across. “I Have America...
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Sep.23.2009
My muse lounges on my bed, dressed in a tight, black Victorian corset, black silk bloomers, and stiletto heels. Her snake hair is piled high on her head like a Gibson girl, but she looks more like a porn star vampire than an Edwardian icon. "You know," she says, drawing on a cigarette...
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Sep.19.2009
If you like the U.S. right wing and want to see its ruling philosophy in action in its purest form, look no further than the cruel, failing state of Mexico.
The Republican-style, conservative government in Mexico has always favored the wealthy ruling elite, with no real policies to improve its...
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Sep.14.2009
"I had a terrible mother," the woman sitting across from me in the Pep Boys waiting room said.
Her own daughters, one eight years old and the other thirteen, clung close to her side. The girls were dark-skinned, small and beautiful. The woman was large and blond, with poodle-thick-curling...
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Sep.01.2009
Ritual by Mo Hayder (Book Review)
Ritual by Mo Hayder is the first novel in her new Walking Man Series. It is a paperback published by Bantam Press and its ISBN is 0553820435. From the author who brought us The Birdman, Skin and The Treatment like the others it is a graphically scary novel not for...
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