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May.18.2013
Chapter 12
Late Friday Night/Early Saturday Morning - Chicago
Athletes sleep soundly. A finely tuned body usually houses a finely tuned mind. Tamika Smith was an athlete. She had not played a college basketball game in five years, but you wouldn't know it by the...
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May.12.2013
The Orchard Keeper, by Cormac McCarthy
You may become puzzled trying to categorize McCarthy’s writing style, but you won’t find it hard at all to place it in the canon of Southern literature. McCarthy eventually moved on from this subset, his most famous books taking place in the Southwest U.S.,...
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Apr.30.2013
Bob Ferguson is my guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat”, chatting about his debut book the thriller “Buzzard Bay”. Bob grow up in a remote region of Canada without electricity or telephones, spending many an evening dreaming of faraway places listening to an old battery operated radio.
Later...
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Apr.20.2013
I am so ashamed on behalf of humanity, so ashamed on behalf of men and civilization, and so ashamed on behalf of India.
Police in India arrested a man for torturing and raping a five year old. That's enought to sicken my spirit, and the details are more sickening.
But the father knew...
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Apr.19.2013
The Scariest People An Absence of Love
By Bernadette A. Moyer
The scariest people in the world are the ones who have nothing and therefore nothing to lose. I am not talking about material possessions either, not houses, car and cash but rather a moral code. Whether you call it God or a higher power...
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Apr.16.2013
Dr. Christiane Northrup says, "The things that make us weep contain something we need to know about."
On this day, I, like you, weep for Boston, Newtown, Aurora, Oslo, Bagdad and countless other places on earth where violence and bloodshed cover the hills, valleys, mountains, streets and streams of...
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Mar.25.2013
...from "Ode to Santa Cruz," _New & Selected Poems_. Red Hen Press, 'a sidewalk of broken glass, a street filled with jewels. Loma Prieta, The Earthquake of the Dark Hill, place, this place, always coming back from a disaster. Natural beauty and unnatural events, jazz, blues, canoes, tattoos, I...
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Mar.06.2013
Harper’s Magazine, March 2013
If one were to hang one’s hat on any articles in this issue as talking points relating to todays significant issues in the U.S., one need only read through the first dozen pages.
That begins with Thomas Frank’s essay, “Blood Sport,” on the Connecticut...
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Jan.21.2013
I, like most of us, have begun to think seriously of late about various socio-political things facing us everyday (trust me - this will have to do with my usual subject matter of media, technology, creativity, etc.), particularly the gun-realted tragedies of the past few years, but also...
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Jan.19.2013
I have been reading Jean M. Auel's Earth Children series, beginning with Clan of the Cave Bear and continuing through all the books, now that they are out. I am halfway through The Stone Shelters and had to put it down to read a couple of books for review. I am anxious to get back to it. ...
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