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Aug.23.2009
August 23
MEETING INVENTORY
The manicurist at the meeting sits and does her nails; the discussion goes on around her as she files away. Cell phones go off for the people who can’t put their lives on hold for their sobriety. The knitter knits and the dissenters descend; with the chatting...
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Aug.22.2009
Barbara Bretton, Story Siren, Radio Shows and the Magic 99 The last few days have been full of fun, adventure and entertainment.
Today my Saturday "Book and a Chat" guest was Barbara Bretton, is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of more than 40 books. She currently has over...
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Aug.22.2009
Recently, I posted a column I wrote about the perils of each summer's "Silly Season" -journalism (See: "The Infamous Chicken Little Article," a link to which is at right-bottom of this page). Someone at the BBC took note, it seems; below, an article entitled "Science Ponders Zombie Attack" --...
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Aug.21.2009
San Francisco—Today Laina Adler, Marketing Director for a major American publishing firm which for the purposes of this article we will call CarperHollins, received a call this morning from a company called Bioscript. “They said they needed to talk to me about my daughter Nicola Adler’s account,”...
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Aug.21.2009
August 21
HOW EVER YOU CAN
I heard, “let go with love.”
“You know how to do that?” asked my sponsor.
“No, that’s why I’m here to see you, but it sure sounds like something I should do.”
“Well, in a perfect world maybe we can all do it that way, but for now let go with a mean look in your eye...
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Aug.19.2009
I mentioned here recently that I belong to an organization called the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica, or SPAH, which I think is an unfortunate acronym because it sounds like the name of an alien life form from a Star Trek movie, or the sound someone might make after...
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Aug.19.2009
Father Trey Makes an Offer
At the friary lunch Father Trey asks,
"Do you have laundry?"
Lean, young Kevin Costner.
We three women poets nod.
"I'd be happy to do your wash," he says.
"Leave it on the porch."
When he leaves we gasp,
"Oh my God!"
Margie...
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Aug.18.2009
I had planned to spend much of my summer vacation alternately working on my suspense novel, and lounging on the beach. Instead, I passed most of it Waiting for Mr. Goodroof.
You see, I co-own a hundred-year-old house in the Ontario countryside. It has wood siding and a shingled roof. We got half...
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Aug.17.2009
West Midlands, UK—An English elephant named Five has learned to play the harmonica, according to the Telegraph. World-class harmonica player Tom Ball picked up the story and spread the word among members of the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica, or SPAH, a group to which...
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Aug.17.2009
“Is George Clooney the Hottest Guy in Hollywood? Seems Everyone Wants to Be his Bud.”--Headline on Yahoo! News.
“I’m really white trash.”—George Clooney
E-Mail from: The Lipinskis To: George Clooney
Dear George Clooney:
Trudi and I wish to thank you very much for the free dinner and drinks the...
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