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Oct.14.2009
Never one to blog on somebody else's topic , I nearly ignored Red Room's request that today I, along with their other authors, blog about The Wizard of Oz. As I was moving on to another email, the subject finally leapt out at me. The Wizard of Oz. The Oz books. The fantasy life that very likely...
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Oct.14.2009
This poem of mine, with allusions to The Wizard of Oz , appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Phi Kappa Phi Forum.
WHAT’S UNDERNEATH:
AFTER UNTITLED WOOD AND FIRED-CERAMIC PIECE BY MARIA SCOTT
Frail bars, sunk deep in stone tempered by fire
That could reduce a wooden grid to ash
Leaving just...
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Oct.14.2009
The sign of a good movie? It changes your life. It changes the very fabric of who you are. The Wizard of Oz did that for me. It still does. It's a classic feminine myth that instills in me hope, innocence and belief in pure, raw magic. It guides and shapes me. It still provides me with answers...
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Oct.14.2009
When I was four years old, I lived, briefly, with my mother and stepfather, in a tiny house near Lake Merritt. It was a cottage with hardwood floors, painted pale blue. Coming, as I did, from the City, I was enchanted by the trellis covered in fragrant honeysuckle, and the bamboo in the yard that...
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Oct.14.2009
Here's what I was told:
"L. Frank Baum published the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and its still in print today. It was the first in a series of forty volumes that feature our young heroine Dorothy, who is carried to Oz in a tornado with her little dog Toto; her three original...
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