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Sep.23.2009
The two-person memoir Spoon Jackson and I have written will be out April, 2010. We're happy, and both working hard. You can read about By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives here (and sign up to be notified when the book comes out)
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Sep.18.2009
It's hard to know exactly what went on those last few months in prison. My dad and stepmom only sometimes took phone calls from my brother, stating that it was too expensive and often he was not lucid anyway. As I mentioned before, his letters were hard to decipher and in one of his last letters,...
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Sep.16.2009
In my last entry, I mentioned that my 25-year-old brother, though having some rocky times in college, he seemed to pull things together. He was working in a Gucci retail store, lived near his best friend from college, and had a fiancé. Though we were only 30 miles apart, I did not see him during...
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Sep.09.2009
I grew up in an upper middle -class home in Los Altos, CA (just below the upper class homes in Los Altos Hills). I always thought my family was strange and didn't fit in, but that was before I really learned that every family is strange.
My father was an alcoholic until I was almost 7 years old....
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Aug.27.2009
R. Dwayne Betts – “a good student from a lower-middle-class family” – carjacked a man, went to prison, and has written a book about the experience. Betts was sixteen when he committed the crime, but tried and convicted as an adult; he served eight years in Virginia prisons. He’s been out for four...
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Aug.14.2009
Is Pres. Obama Safe From Attack? Two women, two potential presidential assassins, are free today, 34 years after they attempted to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford. Has the Secret Service learned anything from Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, which will help them in their attempts to...
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Aug.11.2009
It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes. Sara Jane Moore, the middle aged woman and a mother who shot at Pres. Ford in 1975 was released from prison December 2007. Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the...
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Aug.05.2009
I am always worried I will run out of paper or pencils and pens, money or brain matter before I die.
As an immigrant, I have only my memories to stand on, and so I am worried about my writing.
As a political dissident, I can't go home to Burma anytime soon, as long as the present junta stays in...
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Jun.01.2009
Doesn't the person who saved the life of the President of the United States deserve a name?
The woman who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore, has her name out there. Although we still know little about her.
But we hear nothing about the person who foiled Moore's second shot. He...
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May.04.2009
I just learned I won first place in non-fiction Wild Card category for "Taking Aim At The President."
Wild Card is a category for books like mine that don't fit neatly into one category. For example, my book is non-fiction, history, biography and political.
Had I entered it into one...
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