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Aug.03.2011
Ellen Sussman's fourth book, FRENCH LESSONS, just came out to rave reviews. People magazine gave it four out of four stars, a ¾ page layout, and the title of People Pick. You may already know Ellen from her first novel, On a Night Like This. Or perhaps you've picked up the two anthologies she's...
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Aug.02.2011
Fifty years ago in some Greek regions, customs were quite different from contemporary weddings we see in the United States. These Greek brides would act as a servant to the wedding guests and serve them breakfast. But what was more interesting was the play-acting that the bride performed in the...
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Aug.02.2011
I’m sorry? Didn’t you just ask me what I thought? I told you what and why, and now you’re telling me that I’m wrong and that isn’t what I really think. Who are you, again? I had this conversation with a friend a few weeks ago. Oh to have the old, heavy duty, rotary dial phone receiver that you...
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Aug.02.2011
Folding the letter along the creases, I placed it in the envelope and slipped it into the back pocket of my jeans. Then, as if in a trance, I walked off the deck, across the grass, and climbed the wobbly barbed wire fence into Joel Hershel’s property. I paced back and forth over that windblown...
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Jul.29.2011
A project close to the First Lady's heart is the well-being of military spouses. She has held roundtable discussions at Fort Bragg where she has listened to the personal stories of military spouses women and men, who work hard to keep their families together while their loved ones are serving ...
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Jul.27.2011
Not every woman knows about her genitalia. Yup, that's right, even in the 21st century there are women who have no idea about the function of their genitalia let alone what it really looks like.
It's kind of like owning a beautiful piece of art but never really looking at the brush-strokes.
A...
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Jul.24.2011
Finding a suitable match for his spoiled daughter, Princess Rose, proves quite the challenge for King William in Susan Ross’ THE ROSE AND THE LILY (ISBN 10: 0981063462, ISBN 13 978-0981063461, 36 pages).
Knights are too tall or too short. Lords too plump or thin. Too old fashioned. Not rich enough...
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Jul.22.2011
Set in Atlanta and the Ohio farm region before, during and after World War II, First Love, Last Dance is the touching, heart-warming true story of Elise and Peter, a couple who first fell deeply in love in their late teens/early twenties but weren’t able to reunite until their late seventies. It’s...
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Jul.19.2011
Today my husband and I traveled down to the town along the Alabama/Tennessee line where he and I first began. In honor of our love's ten-year journey, over the next three weeks I am going to post snapshots of how the two of us eventually became one. This snapshot took place the summer after Randy...
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Jul.18.2011
Musings: Day Two...
Friday Night Lights was not a show about football. It was a show about the power of relationships.
The relationship of a favorite teacher, coach or mentor and the impact that he or she can have on a young person's life. The powerful pull of peer pressure on a teen. How family...
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