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Jan.20.2013
There are few places on earth where nature seems so close you can touch it at any moment. Our cities and towns so easily separate us from the wilds. Yet there are communities that through circumstance or through planning avail themselves to the natural attributes of location or environment and are...
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Mar.05.2012
If you love The Duke, the Iowa Theatre, right on Winterset’s Courthouse Square, will be screening his iconic film The Quiet Man… read below:
Join your fellow enthusiasts at a special reception in the garden at John Wayne’s birthplace. You can meet...
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Jan.04.2012
After an endless run up to the Iowa caucuses we know now what we have always known. Romney is the inevitable nominee.
And here is why.....
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/red/sfl-iowa-conservatives-romn...
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May.19.2011
1. Some great questions came my way from a recent book club meeting, so I thought I'd share them with everybody. Enjoy!
Where did you get the idea for the two main characters? What research did you do for the book?
The book is loosely based on a journal my great-grandmother wrote in the last...
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May.15.2011
I must say I was pleased as punch with all the yahoos over my last post about taking an unpaid year off from my job to write. And I’m late posting this particular update because I’ve started doing exactly that—writing. I haven’t felt this content in years. But truthfully, the most scary part of...
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Apr.01.2011
So I finally did it. I told my boss I needed a year off from my teaching job at Boston University in order to turn in a solid draft of my next novel to my agent. Goal: last day of August 2012 (when I turn forty). I am thrilled and terrified. No salary, no health insurance, loads of time. I’m...
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Apr.01.2011
So I finally did it. I told my boss I needed a year off from my teaching job at Boston University in order to turn in a solid draft of a my next novel to my agent. Goal: last day of August 2012 (when I turn forty). I am thrilled and terrified. No salary, no health insurance, loads of time. I’...
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Aug.03.2010
(While I'm traveling for the book, I have little time to keep my blog updated. (Apologies!) Here's a "new-to-you" entry that was published as an original essay on the great Powells.com. Go to www.powells.com/blog/?p=20826 to take a look.)
Listen to the voices Studs Terkel collected in...
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Mar.05.2010
Just got a book to review, "Eaarth," by Bill McKibben. Not a misspelling.
Imagine we live on a planet.
Not our cozy,
taken-for-granted earth,
but a planet, a real one,
with dark poles
and belching volcanoes
and a heaving, corrosive sea,
raked by winds,
strafed by storms,
scorched by heat.
An...
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Oct.28.2009
I was born in LA county in 1960 and feel NO connection there. None. Even the ocean is changed. I do like the salt air smell and the eucalyptus trees. It is like being an adoptee who occasionally visits a biological parent who has both terminal cancer and Alzheimer's. You came from them originally,...
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