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Feb.13.2008
You are at a gathering. The first one you have been to in a while. A celebration of your early Anniversary as you have gotten married on Valentine's Day. (This would be me. It was this day, Groundhogs Day or Halloween. A cheezy date both of us could remember. This year on Valentines Day will...
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Feb.10.2008
Here is something I have learned over the years: Most Artistic People hate being on the phone with people who have just gone through something horrible.
It's not all. But its most.
It's the stammering and the uh...okay...oh...honey...I love you...uh...okay...whatever you need...hey I knew...
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Jan.26.2008
January 26th 2008Stomach Pat Count: 5
Watching CNN is indeed my favorite station in these times of no new shows and the elections. You can get all the drama of 24 or Law and Order (without Fred Thompson now) that you can ever ask for.
Tonight has been lush with dramatic goodness.
CNN Pundit:...
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Jan.24.2008
Tuesday January 23rd 2008 Stomach Pat Count to date: Two.
My favorite Thai close to me is Basil on Folsom Street San Francisco. It is my Ladies Who Lunch. Bring the friend. Bring the client. Get out of the home office. Off to Basil to "perp some mayhem" and light conversations on...
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Jan.22.2008
January 21st 2008: I try not to believe in things like psychic occurrences. Even if there is an inkling of truth in it? People have a tendency to bash their "Voodoo Vibrations" over your head like a big old knotty pine stick.
Yes. I think I'm a little psychic says your friend with the...
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Jan.18.2008
Think that you are writing excerpts of your thoughts and anecdotes that is not on paper.
I think with any new medium it seems to be some strange and un charted territory for a lot of people. I find it intriguing that experienced professional writers are having a hard time with it. It's not a...
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Jan.17.2008
Theater. The land of non-payment. "Well don't you do it for the love?" "I'm sure you have a day job" "Aren't you selling out when you get paid". My response: Do I ask you to do my taxes for free, asshole??
Yes. I do it for the love. Uh, no ...theater and writing...
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Jan.16.2008
When I started this blog that dear friend (who has a thing about grammar and spelling) offered to edit my blog. He says it is as "Close to Compulsive" as he gets.
Sure. Here is the text...make me look pretty baby.
For the few that he has done I am grateful for. Completely grateful....
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Jan.16.2008
I'm in a room at some funeral parlor. My grandmom is in the casket (not looking like Lena Horne). I don't really know where I am. It is a strange place. Lots of 70's wood paneling. A dirge is playing but it is a cross of Elton John's Funeral for a Friend and In the Garden of Eden by...
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Jan.12.2008
It's been interesting the last few months. I'm not religious, but my family is. My family ever since I was little has attended Trinity Church UCC Chicago.
Trinity UCC was founded in 1961. Ten years later, when the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright became its pastor, the church had 87 families. Today,...
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