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Dec.16.2012
He had the most beautiful fingers. With head bent slightly tuning the sitar, he looked like a mother putting a child to sleep. Ravi Shankar is asleep forever. He died on Tuesday, December 11, at 92.
Frozen in death, memories come alive. He made the sitar, essentially an accompanying instrument...
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Mar.07.2012
I’ll be attending this year’s El Segundo Author Fair, Sunday, June 3rd. Ellen Cunningham, the Public Services Manager, has invited me to moderate a Popular Culture panel discussion at the event. Here are the esteemed panelists:
* DYAN CANNON – The award-winning actress (...
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Jun.10.2011
Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany heat up the airwaves with another exciting episode of Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are!® Join the Goddess Gals and find fun and practical information.
Taking Woodstock is the funny, touching, and true story of Elliot Tiber, the man who enabled Woodstock to take...
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Dec.20.2010
Okay, stop the presses, this just in: Baby boomers are in a funk!
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, forty-five to sixty-five year olds are not feeling the love. In fact, 80 percent of us are pessimistic about the way things are going in this country.
Although the old folks – the...
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Nov.27.2010
Jimi Hendrix would have turned 68 today.
Okay, I confess, I'm old enough to remember Jimi Hendrix, yes, even old enough to have gone to Woodstock to hear him perform.
Better still, while a teenage high school student, I often ran away to Woodstock where I would spend weeks liberating crab meat...
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Nov.27.2010
Jimi Hendrix would have turned 68 today.
Okay, I confess, I'm old enough to remember Jimi Hendrix, yes, even old enough to have gone to Woodstock to hear him perform.
Better still, while a teenage high school student, I often ran away to Woodstock where I would spend weeks liberating crab meat...
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Oct.20.2010
The other night, I stumbled upon the movie Taking Woodstock on HBO. I’d already missed a half-hour, so I was going to watch just a little as I ate dinner alone. The Ang Lee-directed film quickly became a guilty pleasure because it used editing techniques, split screen, and moments from the 1970...
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Aug.08.2010
For almost 20 years my husband, Fred, and I have been hosting Authentic Writing studios weekly in our home in Woodstock, NY, as well as in Manhattan and places far beyond! About 10 people join us each time. It's a place to write. Because we have such strong feelings about the power of writing...
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Nov.06.2009
And the sign said long-haired freaky people need not apply, so I tucked my hair up under my hat and went in to ask him why. He said you look like fine, upstanding young man, I think you’ll do. So I took off my hat and said imagine that, ha, me working for you. Sign, sign everywhere a...
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Sep.15.2009
A recent editorial on Woodstock revealed something far more interesting (at least to me) about the remembrance of that event than any particular ruminations on its symbolic importance in history. Somewhere in the article, the author refuted the old joke about the ‘60s (“If you remember the ‘60’s,...
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