How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons | How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons
Nov.29.2009
What was Tiger Woods doing at 2:30 AM? And what was his wife Elin Nordegren Woods doing with that golf club? Was this a case of a couple going to play midnight-miniature golf gone terribly awry? Had it slipped Tiger's mind that Elin wanted to join him? These are the burning issues facing America—...
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Nov.26.2009
On the day before Thanksgiving we were robbed. During the night thieves gained access to our home and stole Kathi’s Stratocaster guitar, my keyboard, some amps and other musical equipment, our car, and Kathi’s son and my stepson Tony’s car, which was parked in front of our house. It was a disaster...
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Nov.22.2009
This week I am attending the annual convention of the Society of Biblical Literature (motto: making the Bible even more baffling than it already is) in New Orleans, Louisiana on behalf of HarperOne. Barbara Brown Taylor, author of An Altar in the World, told me she rode in the elevator here with...
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Nov.20.2009
I should have known it was going to be bad day when the traffic reporter on KQED radio said there was still a problem on the N line after telling us about an as-yet undiagnosed problem on the L line. San Francisco’s mass transit system (MUNI) of buses, light rail, trolleys, cable cars, carrier...
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Nov.16.2009
This weekend I was in Miami for the Miami Book Fair International, promoting my book How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons—a book that will change your life and a really great gift idea at only $9.99. They put me up in the Hyatt Regency, which, as it happens, was the setting for the...
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Nov.10.2009
Canada is invading the United States. But before I get to that, I need to tell you about Leo MacDonald, Head Sales Honcho for HarperCanada, and his career in law enforcement. When he was very young and foolish Leo flew to Hay River to see a woman who had been or was his girlfriend. Hay River is...
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Oct.30.2009
It has been a very, very long time (four months) since I wrote about the assault of the pigeons on the West coast of this great land, and in particular on the light well outside my kitchen, and no doubt many of you have wondered about the status of this epic battle for the soul of America. My sense...
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Oct.27.2009
People often ask me why I wrote How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons. This is a tough question, because there were several reasons:
I wanted to make billions of dollars
I wanted to be more famous than Paris Hilton
I wanted to stop the human race from destroying itself
Now that I have...
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Oct.25.2009
On a beautiful day in San Francisco 16-year-old Laura Ruth Barry had no trouble defending her San Francisco Parkside tennis crown, beating fellow American Sam Barry (who is, in an extraordinary coincidence, her father) 6-1 and 6-2. The match was actually more lopsided than the score would indicate...
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Oct.22.2009
I was doing some laundry this morning before work when it hit me. However, before I explain that statement let me just say that I am a big admirer of the renowned Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, not least because he is the father of Uma Thurman. No wait, that’s Richard Gere. Still, I am a big...
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