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Oct.26.2009
Fear of failure is a bitch.
It’s like the bitch god or bitch goddess – depending on your preferred visualization – covered with dark shaggy hair, snarling, holding sway over so many of us. We learn young – especially in this culture – that people can be either winners or losers, and to be a loser...
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Oct.19.2009
There is none so dangerous as the white American who waxes nostalgic about what he or she likes to call "the good old days." Or, alternately, those "simpler" times, or the era of so-called "innocence" remembered from their childhoods, memorialized in a Norman Rockwell...
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Sep.29.2009
THE STORY WOMAN'S TWO-PART CONTEST
Social, Intellectual, Religious, Political– you name it!
Winner of Part 1 receives my “how-to” book, Give the Gift of Story: TellTale Souls’ Essential Guide to Tap Memory & Write Memoir in Five Acts, since learning to capture the character of a loved one in...
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Sep.25.2009
Beautiful young woman, standing on the beach. Gossamer wings, a white silk gown, sparkling tiara, and sneakers?
How does on say goodbye to golden wringlets. Eyes which shine with the innocense of love and unconditional trust. A bottle filled with chocolate milk, apple cheeks and bowed mouth.
How...
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Sep.24.2009
Hi, everyone!
I wanted to let you know about three classes I'm teaching at The Writing Salon this fall:
*Intro to Creative Writing (9 wks., Tuesdays, 7-9:30 p.m., Oct. 13-Dec. 8, $365):
http://www.writingsalons.com/class-descriptions/introcw-pritchett/
*Intro to Personal Essays (5 wks., Saturdays,...
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Sep.17.2009
I have watched a number of friends, family members, and public officials over the past few years argue with themselves about how much they do or do not believe in love because they, in some terrified hour, had reached the conclusion that without forgiveness there can be no love and forgiveness is...
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Sep.14.2009
At first it seemed little more than a bizarre rant, only slightly worse than those to which we've grown accustomed, given the source. To wit, Rush Limbaugh, who on September 11 condemned President Obama for speaking that day about community service, and encouraging young people to become involved...
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Sep.07.2009
Van Jones, special advisor to the President's Council on Environmental Quality, has resigned from the administration. To be honest, he was forced out. Oh, perhaps not directly, but if not, then by the stunning silence of his employer. An employer more concerned about appeasing the right-wing...
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Sep.02.2009
Life’s Creation Begins with the Atom: Unification of Life, Space, Energy and Matter
(Re-edited on March, 2010)
Unification is the process by which all of life reaches unity with all of space, energy and matter. Unity, itself, is signified when all of life attains a common union with all the known...
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Aug.30.2009
My apologies, but I've been a little ill. I will return with more amusement next week.
Take care!
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