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Mar.04.2010
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to get to the end of a story. Often I flipped to the last page to check the final words so I would know where the heck we were going. It didn't bother me to know, and often knowing the ending reassured me.
Problem is, we can't do that with life.
This morning my...
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Dec.29.2009
Yup - Kafka is back in the courtroom (fitting, as he was a lawyer). Just as he requested that his manuscripts be destroyed by the one man whom he knew would not do it, so do some of these manuscripts remain in limbo. Now the courts have decreed that the matter of the manuscripts be resolved, or...
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Nov.20.2009
Oprah Winfrey announces that she will end her show in September 2011. She will speak about it today and it’s something that astonished me. Oprah is a wonderful woman who has made a difference in millions of people’s lives in United States and internationally. She inspired women who couldn’t find...
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Aug.22.2009
In a soon-to-be-released book by Tom Ridge, Former Secretary of Homeland Security, "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege . . . and How We Can Be Safe Again," (written with Larry Bloom and published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press), Ridge reveals that on more...
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Aug.12.2009
Once again The Red Room challenges its authors and members to blog on a specific topic. How interesting that they should choose "Heroes." I've recently been lamenting the fact that there are no heroes today. Not in the sense that there were in the past, larger than life people who...
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Apr.21.2009
One of the great inspirations in my life was experimental animator Jules Engel, best known for his work on Disney's Fantasia and Bambi, as well helping develop Mr. Magoo and some of the first animated series on television, Gerald McBoing-Boing and Alvin and the Chipmunks.
When I started at CalArts...
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Apr.20.2009
Megas Alexandros and the Royal "We" (Meros A)
How does an empire treat the citizens of conquest during the battle for occupation, the occupation and after the fall of the empire? Isn't it possible to gauge the degree of civilization held by the empire by answering these questions?
From...
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Mar.16.2009
A passage from my Marion Grace novel, The Godmother, as yet unedited and unrevised. The world is on the cusp of the new millennium.
WHO WASTES TIME MURDERS SUCCESS.
This was the warning stamped upon the moonfaced clock in Mr Adrian Goodman’s office. Its second hand jerked, puppet-fashion,...
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Oct.23.2008
I was having lunch with a friend yesterday, a friend with a wayward son, a son who tortures his mother not from lack of love but because he is a revolutionary, wild in the streets. He finds the edges and pushes them, sees the world in extremes, will not follow the rules. Because of ideals.
It's...
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Feb.10.2008
I'm in Mexico, alone in a lush garden with squawking parrots and chirping songbirds. In the distance, the sounds of barking dogs, crowing roosters, and motorcycles. Meanwhile, I have a new Red Diaper Dharma column up at Literary Mama which explains what I'm doing here: "On Binges and Benders....
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