Love | Love
Sep.10.2009
When someone at a foo-foo receptionCuts open my first durian, Far East paradiseFruit, I nearly refuse. I catch a whiffOf brimstone, soiled socks, warehouse #2At Olin Chemical. I smell a girl I didn’t meetIn Saigon, but a bar in Lynn, her accentAll Boston, Irish with a...
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Sep.09.2009
Repentance and redemption are close cousins. Often, repentance is only fully realized and satisfied when redemption is at hand. Such is the tale of Ghost Orchid, my next fiction novel soon to be released by L & L Dreamspell. This story of love, lies and redemption is really the story of a...
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Sep.08.2009
They say a woman is born with all of her eggs in her ovaries unlike a man whose sperm lasts only 72 hours before a new batch is made. Does this mean that we are as old as our mothers? I wonder about genetic memories, memories in the very nuclei of cells and tissue.
My mother was born with me...
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Sep.07.2009
Chapter Three
The Boy Next Door
“If you marry, however, you do not sin, nor does an unmarried woman sin if she marries; but such people will experience affliction in their earthly life, and I would like to spare you that.”
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Sep.05.2009
There are two items which bring can bring an individual to the precipice of the “proverbial” edge and potentially with one last step...and over the edge... thereby on with their next journey. The two issues are when one cries and the other is despair. These are neither the same, nor related, yet...
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Sep.04.2009
June 7, 2009
Let’s Talk About It
My best friend Batman, and me were sitting on the back porch throwing down the buds, and talking. I told him what I thought was going on, about me daughter being on drugs. I told him, cankers have cretin things that they all do, one is talking so fast you can't...
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Sep.03.2009
I went to a Spiritual Parenting class last night and am happy to say that the one little tool I walked out of there with has already proven to be well worth the effort.
The lesson came from a book written by Doc Childre, the title which escapes me. He apparently founded something called Heart Math...
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Sep.01.2009
We set alarms for the first time since we had children - who needs them with little kids! And, I was feeling so on top of it and organized when all of a sudden I hear screaming from the bath tub and the 5 and 7 year olds are each strangling the other. 6:47 am. Not my idea of early morning bliss...
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Aug.31.2009
You might remember my mother, Bonnie Blau, from the interview I did with her earlier this year. We talked about the fact that she thinks she looks like Bruce Springsteen. You can read that interview here. As a follow up, here's an interview with my mother where I ask her about one of my favorite...
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Aug.31.2009
I have a feeling there’ll be some disagreement from the Editor community that a collection of short stories should be a haphazard free-for-all, but that’s why indie publishing is so great.
I do plan to eventually write a collection that has a connecting thread, and I hope to publish it...
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