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Aug.12.2009
Muriel Gardiner: Hero
Muriel Gardiner was a close family friend. We shared a large house and farm outside of Princeton with her, her daughter Connie and her husband Joe who had gotten out of a French interment camp after heading the Austrian resistance. Her own...
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Aug.12.2009
I'm joining the entire Red Room community in writing a short blog post on this week's topic: "Heroes." The form and the content of the blog entry are open to personal interpretation; whether this topic calls to mind a real-life hero, a fictional character, or something else altogether, we...
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Aug.12.2009
"Herr Weadon!" It was not a conventional nick name to say the least, definitely not pretty. Not one that an awkward 12 year-old-girl would normally be proud of, especially considering the translation of Herr is Mr.
That was my nickname every summer when I worked at Day Camp as a...
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Aug.04.2009
“I am not a hero. I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or more—much more—during those dark and terrible times years ago, but always like yesterday in the hearts of those of us who bear witness. Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened...
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Jun.05.2009
Arctic Drift by Clive and Dirk Cussler (Book Review)
Now in paperback Artic Drift by the Cusslers is the 20th Dirk Pitt novel in the series. It is published by Michael Joseph and its ISBN is 0718154703. This quick and exciting James Bond type of thriller is a well researched and...
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May.29.2009
There are supposedly only two stories in the world. Someone goes on a journey and a stranger comes to town. Postmodern fiction has added two variations on these stories. Someone doesn’t go on a journey(for e.g. No Exit, by Sartre), and a stranger doesn’t come to town (Waiting for Godot, by...
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Feb.05.2009
Library lets late fees fly for Hudson River pilot
FRESNO, Calif. – Hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is every librarian's hero, too.
The US Airways pilot splash landed his jetliner in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, and everyone on board escaped safely. But left in the cargo...
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Feb.03.2009
Before I sold my first few books, I never had either a synopsis or outline of the story I would write. I would just get started and bam --
Of course, my first book was an unwieldly 1200 pages and needed to be broken into three stories for it to be marketable. I managed to break out the first story...
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Nov.07.2008
The one thing that separates humans from other animals is not our ability to communicate; most (perhaps all) creatures possess that ability to some degree. What separates us from animals is how we communicate: by words, by stories.
We all have stories to tell. At work, we tell colleagues, “You’ll...
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Oct.26.2008
Last night, I heard a musician play the trumpet. This is not an unusual thing, but this trumpeter and horn player has paranoid schizophrenia. At first, watching him made me feel a little uncomfortable and confused. Why was this man leaving the stage periodically? Why were his eyes mostly closed...
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