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Nov.11.2009
Once upon a time in e-publishing, there were the indies. Well, they still exist, and they rock. These people came in and did it right. They turn on a dime, adapting to the freshest voices and subgenres of work available, work that scares the marketing folks in NY to death and back. They offered no...
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Nov.11.2009
Becoming Galvanized by Laurel Krause & Delaney Rose Brown
Putting the finishing touches on my face, I looked in the mirror and had a funny feeling about the day ahead. I saw a healthy, bright-eyed, intense 53 year old woman glancing back with excitement and dashes of hope and desirability in...
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Nov.11.2009
I woke up this morning, looked at my diary, and it clearly said "write blog." I knew exactly what I was going to write about, but as I read my friends' blogs over my morning coffee, I saw this scare-mongering article from the Guardian alluded to over and over: How Waterstones Killed...
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Nov.11.2009
It’s been an exciting time to be in Europe, this November 2009.
Velvet Revolution, Prague, 1989http://dulyconsider.blogspot.com/2008/02/considerable-sounds-music-that-matters.html
Twenty years have now passed since the historic fall of the Berlin Wall. And on November 18, 1989, the Czech people...
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Nov.11.2009
I sat at the tea table of a woman born to an ancient princely family, in 1905, the year of the first Russian revolution, a woman who was still a child when, in 1917, another revolution smashed her young life to pieces.
Mrs. D. served me tea in thin flowered cups and slices of cherry-filled pastry...
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Nov.11.2009
It was 1982. Five mornings a week, we attended morning mass at St. Joseph's, sitting hip to hip, pew behind pew, the odd grades to the left of the altar, evens to the right.In 7th grade, I was on the left, which put me eye to eye with the Reverend, sometimes called Padre by the boys who wanted to...
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