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May.12.2013
Mom before polio
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I opened the door and, as I braved the champaca fumes and tinkling wind chimes, I thought: fire the art director for crimes of cliché. It was way too...
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Apr.02.2013
BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT: Rose Chatfield-Taylor
HER INTERVIEWER: Anna De Koven
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Why not a medium? It should have been an obvious step long ago, when I was in my...
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Mar.19.2013
The adventurers in Paris
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He met her at...
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Feb.01.2013
Grandpa as un-serious fop
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I married for love at age...
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Dec.22.2012
Photo: A pile of confiscated guns in Kenya, soon to be set ablaze. From Wikipedia's "gun control" page. The caption with the photo is interesting:
"Pyre of smuggled weapons in Uhuru Gardens, Nairobi, Kenya. Original caption states, 'A cache of more than 5,000 smuggled...
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Dec.13.2012
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Tom Hulce received the go-ahead to direct a workshop of my musical Sleeparound Town. Artistic director Andre Bishop gave his blessing, in his distinctive...
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Oct.31.2012
A true story for All Hallows' Eve, although it did not happen on Halloween.
I was visiting the Bay of Fundy island of Grand Manan. I had booked a room in a bed and breakfast and arrived mid-evening. I went elsewhere for a meal, but did meet the owners,...
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Oct.08.2012
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When I was in my twenties and researching a book, I studied the dark art of fleecing men. This technique, and the con women who taught it to me, were the subjects of...
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Oct.03.2012
Live events really shaped Morbid Curiosity magazine. After the release of each issue, I hosted a reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco's Mission District. These included as many of the contributors as I could squeeze into 2 hours. That's how I got to hear M. Christian read...
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Sep.11.2012
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After a year spent in the Third World, everything at home seemed strange: food, TV, supermarket, smells, weather, piano, and home itself, the studio on my...
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