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Sep.15.2010
After 35 years in business and comfortable in my own skin I retired from all I'd known to being the oldest person (usually) in the writing workshop. But I would not be dissuaded. Some of my friends reminded me what it was like to be the only female in the office or the least tenured sales person....
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Sep.15.2010
Dear Those-Of-You-Who-Are-Good-With-Words,
Last week as fires raged through two communities near (San Bruno) and dear (Boulder) to me, I thought about how natural gas, like oil, explodes—and wildfires are worse now because the snowpacks are melting. Disaster after disaster, I keep noticing how our...
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Sep.15.2010
At a recent publishing panel, Zen and the Art of the Book Deal, sponsored by Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco, I came away with three fundamental truths from our four panelist that writers must have if they want make the transition from writer to published author:
1) Work hard...
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Sep.15.2010
Birth, wedding, death—all of these events have made up our “biblical” summer. It began with the death of my husband’s mother, a gentle Southern lady with a core of steel. This is a huge loss, not only for my husband and his three siblings and all the grandkids, but to me who thought of Jane as the...
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Sep.15.2010
In this past year I have transitioned from working full time for a large Southern California corporation to working at home as a wrier. When I returned to my job as a proposal manager in the aerospace business after my son's suicide in 1999 I knew I had made exactly the right decision. The job left...
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Sep.15.2010
Two for One
From Detroit
The westward sunken concrete canal
hides a shattered city
this 80 mile per hour
river of metal ambitions
fleeing the city
The rooftops
Surging like waves
I am mindful of the chaos
The possibility of
a quick drowning death
today was my day,
I hit it head on...
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Sep.15.2010
When you talk about transisitions, that could be in many ways. You always hear people insist that change is good... really though some times change is not good, it's just unavoidable. Someone may change the way that they feel about you, and if you were in love with that person... the change was...
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Sep.15.2010
On Thursday I said good-bye to my New York apartment and moved everything out to my house on Long Island. Although I was ready to make the move, I did not expect it to be as difficult as it turned out to be.
I lived in that apartment for over fifteen years and before that I lived in the studio next...
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Sep.15.2010
The Dad App
My eighteen-year-old son Nicholas was walking through the house with a smart phone that was saying “Droid…Droid…Droid…” in an synthesized electronic voice that would have made George Lucas smile (“Roger Roger”). What’s that? I said. He looked up and grinned and said he’d found an...
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Sep.15.2010
Transition is like a slow movng wave,gradually gaining momentum as it heads to the shore,crashing,only to pull back with strong undertow,regaining strength for the next wave,which will build with increasing strength,as wave after wave,ever growing stronger,crashes upon the shore,breaking you in...
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