life | life
Mar.05.2013
In the next week and a half we will go to as many as three funerals, one of which is for a person I have thought of as a friend and mentor and who succumbed quietly to cancer, surrounded by family. The two others are for people who died unexpectedly, one due to accident and one due to unknown and...
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Mar.05.2013
We walk to the corner where I know we will part, where you will launch like a new shoot for its own possibilities, 800 kilometres away.
Through the air and across mountains we will trek, for our next enrichment of dinner and wine.
I walk a step in front of you, my head stooped to the dark pavement...
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Mar.05.2013
Well, I made a new discovery today of an apparently old thing: Amazon now has a way for you to publish serial novels and allow readers to purchase subscriptions!
This is actually pretty darn cool, as some of my story ideas lend themselves more to a serial novel format than a single long-form...
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Mar.05.2013
EDITOR'S NOTE: New America Media editor Andrew Lam has made his name as a journalist, but in his newest book, his past as a Vietnamese refugee reverberates through short stories about characters who fled Vietnam and made new lives in the Bay Area. NAM reporter Anna Challet spoke with him...
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Mar.04.2013
Well, I really ought to post here more, sigh. My pages here launguish from neglect, even as I scribble away in the small secret cave I now occupy.. oh yeah more on that, I suppose.
The property owner whee I live decided to turn the house I lived in, into a short-term vaction/event rental....
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Mar.03.2013
When did hard work become a bad thing, an unromantic idea?
Ben Affleck accepted the Oscar for Best Picture last weekend and thanked his wife. He thanked her for their life and for working with him to keep their marriage together and to raise their children. I'm paraphrasing of...
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Mar.02.2013
I would never have imagined myself in a million years taking an early childhood education (ECE) class. Two classes ago we walked through the different day care rooms at night on the community college campus to get an idea of how the environments were set up. The infant room brought an instant calm...
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Mar.02.2013
Alchemy
Rosemary and myrrh
in the pestle,
rose petals, frankincense.
Crushing bits down
to size. Blowing
dried pieces of fragrance–
ideas into the wind.
Rejecting and accepting,
taking nothing at
face value, diving deep
below the rubble, tasting, spitting out,
'knowing that I know nothing,'
knowing...
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Mar.02.2013
I'm re-emerging after an intense week - work, write, worry, live.
Dreams have been assaulting me at night, wave after wave after wave of dreams. I dream about past work and never done work, and strange associations. Military ranks and settings insert their twists, and there are...
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Mar.02.2013
Few, very few, are as roses or tulips returning
Who knows how many faces the dust has been covering!
This eve of parting my eyes let blood-streams,
Two candles have lit up, is what I am thinking.
The stars lie hidden in the light of the day,
What occurs at night, they come out...
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