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Jul.14.2009
Yesterday, I wrote about love, about feeling loved, about loving back. Belle Yang commented that she feels love not from one person but from the very "space" around her. She is buoyed and bolstered and safe.
Her comment made me conjure a love bubble, a safety, a protection that all...
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Jul.13.2009
Hi all! Celebrate with me the upcoming August 4, 2009 paperback release of THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE. I am happy to share with you my critically acclaimed memoir - now in softcover! Perfect for gifts, beach travel, book clubs, airplanes, suitcases and cabins...you know where you like to escape with a...
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Jul.13.2009
Part of my heart is scared of love, the true kind that comes with no guile, no desire, no need. The kind of love that comes straight from the love place, a place of calm and gold light and warm, soft air. Looking at that kind of love is like taking a huge compliment and really letting it cover...
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Jul.12.2009
It took me a long time to feel I was in a position to write fiction of a more rounded type (previously I did snappy, plot driven short stories inspired by Raold Dahl), until my mid thirties in fact. And only after my mother had died. I miss her every day, but losing her freed my imagination, and...
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Jul.10.2009
On July 4th I spent the day with two people whom I love very much. One is 75 the other is 73. They both were married before, both had family.
27 years ago, they became friends, they played bingo together and started to fall in love. As the time went by they both lost their spouses, they both...
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Jul.10.2009
Prologue
"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
"The desire to be as civil as possible is a deep motive for the contemplative life."
~M. Scott Peck
In Geneva today, the human creative spirit is not in chains. One is invited to let one's...
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Jul.08.2009
The novel Home by Marilynne Robinson won the Orange Prize 2009. Its ISBN is 1844085503 and it is published by Virago Press. It is a sad and slow moving book but rich in characterisation and in human understanding. It is set in the 1950s in Gilead where a brother and sister return as adults to live...
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Jul.08.2009
He is Lucky. This guy with peppery hair and eyes the color of liquid chocolate. On a good day he says I love you. A bad one, he still says it. Really, I swear, those are his only words. His love is pure sunshine. Such a smooth operator he is. And I’ve never seen such a fast runner. Dancing pleases...
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Jul.05.2009
Today I woke up to the news that my latest release, A Will to Love, has made it onto the Reviewer’s Bookwatch list as a Reviewer’s Choice entry for July 2009 at Midwest Book Reviews. It will stay there, of course, for the next twelve months. I am so excited you guys!
I invite you to go out and see...
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Jun.28.2009
(As 14 of you may know from my previous post, I magically created actor/singer Jared Leto out of thin air with my supernatural abilities, only to send him running because of my rudeness and general lack of caring. Well, last week, Jared forgave me and asked me out to dinner. I happily obliged.)
He...
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