secrets | secrets
May.11.2013
She emerged from the early evening shadows.
Walking across the gas station parking lot.
The pumps were unnaturally bright against the deep purple twilight.
There was purpose in her stride and sass in her walk as she made her way across the lot.
She wore a calico skirt,
and dusty cowboy...
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Apr.13.2013
The publication of my last book made me tired. It was a special kind of tired because I was tired of myself--tried of hearing myself talk about a book I’d written and left behind. I was also tired of confusing the tired person who talked with authority on what she’d written with...
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Mar.28.2013
My guest on today's 599th "A Book and a Chat" is Chad Schimke the author of "Picker"," Pieces", "Walker" and "Weirder", also Enter Uno, the first in the We are Wildewood series which includes digital art by Solis (heartofsolis.com).
Chad spent a lot of his early years growing up in Northwestern...
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Feb.15.2013
John Bradshaw once said, “If your family has any secrets you can bet they are about sex.” In looking back through my years of recovery from incest I see how accurate he was. Just finding out that I was an incest victim, even though my father had told me twice, was a shock in itself. My best friend...
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Nov.19.2012
I've been thinking about the secrets I carry. Not the military secrets, trade secrets or government secrets. No, these are the more fragile family secrets that families nurture and hide.
I finally called Mom Sunday. I spoke with her for two hours today, calling at 6AM my...
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Oct.24.2012
When Beverly was a child she hated to read. Even though her eighth-grade teacher sent her poem “Stars” to a high school anthology and it was published in Young America Sings she hated to write. In spite of her rocky relationship with books, she managed to graduate from high...
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Aug.31.2012
In the two books I have written to now (although neither has been published yet) Ray Billings, starring first in "Troubled Memories" and then in the sequel "The Bird Nest" returns in his latest adventure "Deep Cover: Applied Intelligence."
Someone...
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Jul.29.2012
There are so many mysteries in our world, or even one might say this world as many people, including Terrance Aym, my guest on todays “A Book and a Chat” believe we are just a small dot in the Multiverse.In his book “Mysteries Of The Multiverse: 25 True Stories From Time And Space” Terrance...
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Jul.08.2012
Shortly before she passed away, my 99-year-old Aunt Irene asked if I would continue the upkeep of her sister’s grave. Something she had done for decades− since the bleak November morning, when Jean, her name was Jean, fastened her chestnut hair into plastic rollers, then hanged herself with the...
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Jun.19.2012
Even now, an entire lifetime later, it is hard to admit that I was bullied. I said nothing. I told no one. Bullying was usually accompanied by severe warnings: tell and you will be sorry!
But I was already sorry, just for being me, the youngest girl in the seventh grade, the skinniest...
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