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Sep.09.2012
My wife is suffering from some health issues so we want out for breakfast at lunch. No, it wasn't brunch. Yes, there's a difference.
While there, a heavy elderly man entered, followed by another woman, I assumed to be his wife. They carried that married couple aura. He looked like he was in...
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May.11.2012
I guessed number one. And number ten surprised me. And number nine I never heard of. And - you know - I'll take some grains of salt with some omissions. But over all, when you factor in that the vast per centage of readers have lived in the last hundred years, I find this interesting. Not that I...
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Mar.22.2012
Immediately, hundreds of people who just saw this title were reeled in by their curiosity of "the birds and the bees." Is this because they actually feel they want to know about the insects and their feathered predators? I sit here now on my porch, laptop on my lap..(...
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Nov.01.2011
Imagine a situation where a few years from now she could be married and forced to become the shared booty between brothers because she survived
Across the globe, the seven billionth addition to the human population has been welcomed symbolically. Baby deaths, another vital statistic, can be pushed...
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Mar.13.2011
SAN FRANCISCO--What everyone’s been saying for a while about the Bay Area, the 2010 Census has confirmed. The East is acquiring greater weight in the life of the region because the Asian American population is surging. Politically and culturally, the result is something of a rumbling mid-Richter...
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Feb.02.2011
I set a quarter of CHINA LILY, the second part of my onion trilogy, in China, a couple of decades before Marco Polo visited. Onion trading and a lot more. And China will be part of the final portion of the trilogy, set in present times. I wonder if my characters will get lost in a city this size (...
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Jun.14.2010
Poets for Living Waters – New Statements / Poems
I don’t have the answers. I barely have the questions. But I’m not egotistical enough to imagine I can come up with a solution or complete understanding on my own. I also don’t think sitting in front of the TV, feeling angry and impotent, is the...
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Dec.08.2009
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Like it or not, parallels exist between the two separate-but-similar battles for civil rights. I received some flack the other day for posting the title statement on my Facebook page (“Gay is the new black.”), and in turn, learned there is some resistance against aligning the two...
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Sep.06.2009
STORYHEART SUNDAY UK BLOG - THIS ROYAL THRONE OF KINGS I was thinking about what to write in todays Sunday Blog, when something my guest on yesterdays "A Book and a Chat" (Shelley Seale) said made me think, in fact I did mention it in yesterdays blog.
The number of homeless children in...
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May.22.2009
Melting polar ice caps, decreasing fertile land, dying species, floating islands of waste and unstoppable virus strains.
What is happening? How is this happening?
The Right (read Republican) says this is all "hog wash." They trot out doubting scientists who dispute the claims of natural...
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