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Jun.12.2009
When should the public visual record of your kid’s life start? This is a tricky question, sort of like “Does life begin at conception, at a certain point in pregnancy, or at the moment of birth”? I’m not going to touch that one with a 200 hundred foot pole. But if you want to have a permament...
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Jun.01.2009
Sunday's New York Times had an article on the cover about artists from around the world painting likenesses of our president. The few examples accompanying the article were impressive, some better than others, but who am I to judge since I have trouble drawing anything more than a stick figure...
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May.27.2009
Yesterday, Clyde Haberman had an interesting piece about memoir writing in the New York Times. Naturally it caught my attention since I'm writing a memoir based on my spiritual journey, as well as the journey of buying back the home my ex and I had to sell in 2002 due to our divorce agreement....
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May.26.2009
I have plagiarized. Once.
And it was inadvertent.
That can happen. At the time, I thought I had changed my own prose enough so that it didn't read like the sources it came from but I hadn't and also, I had no original sources -- only the ones I offered in my bibliography.
It was many years ago.
I...
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May.26.2009
The Daily Sam is stepping up its level of reportage (pretty fancy word, huh? Doesn’t that make you feel educated?) by adding a foreign correspondent: my twenty-year-old son Daniel Barry. Daniel has been overseas for two years now and has visited more than forty countries in that time. Presently he...
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May.02.2009
Reading the newspaper early in the morning is a way for me to awaken my imagination, connect in some small way with the rest of the world and sometimes to find small pieces of inspiration. This morning, as is true most mornings, I got up and read the New York Times on my phone. The small type and...
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Apr.27.2009
I noticed in a New York Times piece today that the the New York Times called itself The New York Times, with a capital T.
I noticed it because, in my copy editing work it seems I spend about half a day every day lowercasing the T in "the." In running text, my stylebook says, you...
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Apr.21.2009
Can you still be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize if Publishers Weekly thinks your book is no great shakes? Apparently you can.
Earlier this week on a writing forum we were talking about the importance of reviews. The subject came up because one of our members had received a poor review from one...
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Apr.15.2009
"Citizen Journalist Wanted" - banner ad on PJTV - Photo Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2009)
Tea Parties - When Citizen Journalism Is The Only Outlet
Today, April 15, 2009 … a day when all Americans are supposed to have their taxes filed with the Internal Revenue Service (headed by Timothy...
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Apr.14.2009
The Times is publishing my letter protesting an essay, "Got Poetry?" by Jim Holt (April 5), in which a dozen male poets were quoted as delicious to learn by heart. Women writers not worth memorizing? Not Emily Dickinson, or Elizabeth Bishop, or Sharon Olds, or Lucille Clifton, or Joy...
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