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Jul.21.2010
Twenty-five years ago, while an undergraduate at Stanford, I got a job on campus as a lifeguard, deepening a love of swimming and water that has lasted throughout my life. I took the duties seriously and studied the swimmers with professional vigilance, relieved at the end of each day that no...
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Jun.29.2010
I've been asked to speak at Stanford University lately, first for their Publishing Course, then for a writers conference, and then I was asked to speak at their Graduate School of Business, where I got to meet and lecture/train some of their writing coaches and faculty. (Apparently, I am an expert...
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May.25.2010
Time Wise's post prompted me to post this essay, which appeared in the 2008 Spring Issue of Black Arts Quarterly.
The night I arrived in Singapore to start my Fulbright fellowship was the day my mother and stepfather returned to New Orleans to see what broken levees had left for them. I...
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May.02.2010
Sunday - yippee! First let me talk about Friday. I had my post-op and everything is healing nicely and according to the surgeon it is beautiful. Saturday I had my sons soccer game at 8 a.m. and I spent the afternoon with my daughter at Tracy High School doing the Relay for Life. The purpose of...
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Apr.06.2010
Again I learned that I have great kids. Every day they show me something that makes me know that I am doing something right, even when they misbehave or do something that is totally off the wall - I see something in them that makes me glad to be their mother.
My older son asked me if he could...
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Apr.05.2010
Today is my brother Phil’s birthday. Phil lives in Roswell, Georgia, outside Atlanta, and at one point Newt Gingrich was Phil’s representative in Congress. But Phil never capitalized on that relationship. It wouldn’t be like Phil to capitalize on a relationship. He is one of the gentler souls in...
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Apr.03.2010
Today I spent the day with my oldest son at Stanford's Black Student Union's conference. It was their 11th Annual Youth Empowerment Conference. http://www.stanford.edu/group/bsu/There were over 400 mostly black high school students from throughout the bay area and as far away as Washington, D.C....
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Feb.02.2010
Where would we be in America without our freedom of choice? It's a god given right. Right?
We can choose where we want to live, providing we can afford the rent or mortgage. Choose what to wear. Choose what to eat. Choose what to drive.
All in the name of the pursuit of happiness. An unalienable...
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Sep.28.2009
We have some of the best kindergartens in the world here in San Francisco. Or they should be, given what kids and parents have to go through to get into these elite institutions. The screening begins at age three and a majority of applicants are turned down for their first choice of kindergarten....
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Apr.27.2009
The April 5 reading of "Beirut Summer" at Stanford's Campbell Recital Hall was the second time I've had the pleasure of being accompanied while reading. The first was last summer in Maine when my good friend Dr. A.J. Racy (Prof of Ethnomusicology at UCLA) accompanied me with...
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