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Nov.07.2012
Canvassing South Philly: Silicon Valley Goes East
The back-story about what propelled me from Silicon Valley to the back streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to work for Pres. Obama, is that I learned to value the right to vote at my mother’s knee.
The immediate impetus was my outrage...
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Jun.07.2012
June 7
HOSTAGE DOLL
A doll stands wedged between two mailboxes, naked and exposed, the edge of the road passing her by. She is there to pay for my self-loathing. I throw my treasures in the air as skeet to be shot and shattered. Hate is the...
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Apr.27.2012
Quite warm for the Bay Area.
Son Guy slept all day.
I worked as best I could on the computer, but it has suddenly become troubled. If the troubles do not clear up, I'm going to seek help tomorrow.
Had as nice Email from Bill H.,...
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May.11.2009
Kafka's famous literary work, "The Trial," could have been written about our present U.S. healthcare system. I certainly felt I was caught in a Kafkaesque world today. The trouble is, the sequence of bureaucratic hires to whom I have expressed these sentiments didn't know what I was...
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Oct.10.2008
I taught my first Skype class last night, speaking with people as far away as Georgia and as nearby as Emeryville about how to plot a novel. There was a little technological brouhaha at the start, but that is probably the equivalent of my not knowing quite how the key works in the classroom door...
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