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Jun.29.2010 They Say You Can’t Go Home Again… But I did. And it was terrific. My brother’s birthday was an occasion for a family reunion. Since I was flying across the country and hadn’t done much book promo on that coast, I decided to stay a month and cold call on bookstores and libraries to bring my two medieval romantic suspense novels to...	Oct.22.2009 Left My Heart In Philly I’ve been lost in Yonkers, many times, but its never been a good thing. I get lost there because it’s a twisted jigsaw puzzle of a place, that sometimes blocks me from the many roads that lead to Manhattan. And since I live a bit farther north of New York City, I go to the city fairly often. But I...
Sep.28.2009 Reading your work in your hometown. This past Saturday I had a rather unique experience of reading a new novel to my hometown. The novel is set in Mingo Junction, Ohio, a small industrial town along the Ohio River, and because I was back home to help celebrate the school workers of that town...teachers, principals, custodians, cooks...	Aug.03.2009 Disappearing Childhood I recently took a rather traumatic drive through my hometown of Brunswick, Maine. I spent my entire childhood--age 4-18--in that town, but I haven't lived there in 23 years. My parents moved away a couple of months after I graduated high school and on that day, I took a mental snapshot of Brunswick...
Jun.17.2009 A view of my hometown...Mingo Junction, Ohio...in the Appalachian foothills of the industrial Ohio Valley. The Story of this Town by Larry Smith [for Mingo Junction, Ohio] It begins in coal taken from the earth, mines like caves carved into deep ravines for its men to enter at daylight cut passages through slate and coal, come out into night to mute houses thrown up nearby...	Apr.17.2009 Tinged with Melancholy: Part 2 As a multicultural citizen of the world, you’ve probably left your hometown behind. You may miss it occasionally, but what do you miss? The way the hills and valleys came together, a river running through it? The scent of honeysuckle in summers, and the crickets that never stopped chirping? The...
Apr.10.2009 It Takes a Village: Part 1 Today we’ll start with a Verbal Logic Quiz! But first, consider this compound: 郷土 (kyōdo: native place; birthplace; old home) village + soil If you come from Kyoto, you’re lucky, because you can say this: 京都は郷土だ。 Kyōto wa kyōdo da. My hometown is Kyoto. OK, now you’re ready for the quiz...	Oct.11.2008 WHEN I WAS A KID - Two When I was a kid, I lived in a small town with a population of approximately 1,800 people. The town prospered, mostly because it was the business hub of a thriving Minnesota rural community, and it was the county seat. It seemed to me that the people in our town were the only kind of people that...