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Feb.22.2013
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Telegraph Avenue, by Michael Chabon
For all the verbiage there’s not much here - but then there is. If you’re looking for interior looks at characters and a memorable story, you won’t find either. But then that’s the way of this postmodern novel genre. (I won’t go...
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Feb.07.2013
I have been teaching English since I was seventeen years old in various forms and descriptions. I have taught abroad and at home, I’ve taught privately, one-on-one, and in large groups. I’ve taught mothers with babies at family centers. I’ve taught businessmen and doctors, factory workers and...
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Dec.02.2011
It's power hour time on StarStyle®-Be the Star You Are!® with the Oprah of the Airwaves, Cynthia Brian, and her sidekick daughter, Heather Brittany. Get ready to pump your energy, reach for the stars, and be edu-tained.
Are you a savvy shopper? Learn ways to save money and buy...
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Jun.10.2011
My next book, Children of the Changing South: Accounts of Growing Up During and After Integration, is forthcoming from McFarland & Co., Publisher. This collection that I edited contains memoirs by 18 writers who tell their stories of growing up in a changing South from the late 1950s through...
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May.24.2011
U.S. women talking to Afghan women is an idea far too long in coming. U.S. Marines are undertaking an experiment in Afghanistan. They are embracing the power of women’s work. A few women have been added to duty on the front lines. Read more about this on my Living in the Heartland blog.
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Feb.19.2011
By ANASTASIA ASHMAN
The more time we devote to following our interests online it seems the more relevance we find. The problem: how can we ever share all the fabulousness?! The solution: rounding up the zillions of links resonant to expats, interculturalists, identity adventurers and globalists...
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Feb.04.2011
Welcome to February's "Globalance" issue of the expat+HAREM newsletter
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EDITOR'S NOTE
No surprise, it's the way of the world: multiracial and multiethnic Americans are "one of the fastest-growing demographic groups”, reports the New York Times.
This month we’re pleased to...
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Sep.09.2010
Until September 17, a free download of my novel Rescuing Ranu can be had at Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37169186/Rescuing-Ranu
It's about sacrifice, survival, and the mysterious alchemy of love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5N5QDTpZUg has a trailer/ synopsis type thingie.
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May.29.2010
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, by Richard Fariña
Buddhist theory, I’ve heard, proclaims that the human nervous system’s prime function is to find (create, perhaps) order within chaos. Fariña’s book, as a prototype for what is popularly known as postmodern literature, seems to toy...
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Mar.02.2010
This weekend’s live-recorded call in the Dialogue2010 series left me reeling. Ten women scattered in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Italy and four U.S. states came together to discuss mapping the hybrid life, moderated by Rose Deniz.
The hour was early for those of us in Europe and Asia so we could...
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