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May.18.2010
When my article, My Dad the Spy, was published in last year’s LA Times, I did something I had never done before: went public with a family secret. It wasn’t telling the public that was hardest, it was telling my family. Each member reacted in their own way but what I see now, looking back, was...
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Dec.17.2009
When I take groups of travelers to Italy, my little heart pitter-pats when I hear, “I would never have known about this!” So, when Kimba at Artist-at-Large tagged me in Tripbase’s Best-Kept Secret carnival, I was thrilled. What good is a secret if you never tell anyone, right?
So, here we go: my...
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Dec.03.2009
In an interesting kismet of things, a synchronicity if you will, I was talking about secrets yesterday and then chanced upon two of them later in the day. My position on secrets is that I have maybe three, and that I'm against them in general. The problem with them is for the person keeping the...
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Sep.09.2009
Repentance and redemption are close cousins. Often, repentance is only fully realized and satisfied when redemption is at hand. Such is the tale of Ghost Orchid, my next fiction novel soon to be released by L & L Dreamspell. This story of love, lies and redemption is really the story of a...
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Jul.11.2009
Can trust, once broken, ever be repaired? Should it be?
I'm struggling with this question. It is eating away at me.
I've always been very quick to trust. Always assumed others to be trustworthy. Despite continued experience to the contrary, I continue to put faith in people. Why? Am I foolish?
I'm...
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Mar.30.2009
Here we go again!
Last year I asked you to put on your thinking caps to help me title my work-in-progress. Frequent commenter Denise came up with Secrets She Left Behind, which my publisher, agent and I all agreed was a winner. (Look for it in your bookstores on May 26th).
Now it's time to give...
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Feb.14.2009
I know all about your secrets...Yes...those you thought were hidden...I am going to write about them...Bring them to light.Don't you think it shall be interesting???
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Jan.27.2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009 The Secret Lives of Lawyers
Lawyers live secret lives. And they live secretive lives.
Secretiveness does not, itself, make for a secret life. We can be secretive ABOUT something and still live our life out in the open for all to see. Look at Dick Cheney, who...
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Jan.06.2009
Speaking of Silence
Language and silence have always been bedfellows. Most writers know the silence of the blank page. And there's a different, deeply important silence, in which the voice of the writer seems to go underground. Tillie Olsen speaks of this in a seminal work...
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Dec.13.2008
Yesterday, I found out that my husband likes fruitcake. How could he? I feel betrayed. He’s committed a sin of omission. We’ve been together for 10 Christmases, and he had never admitted to this until now.
I have two theories for his liking that dense, gooey mass—a waste of sugar and flour that...
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