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March 13, 2010
- When my husband was alive he was constantly on the computer. He was part of a broadband group that discussed computers and life. I always shook my head and wondered how he could spend so much time chatting with people he never met. “Come on,” I tried to coax him to watch TV. “In a bit,” he’d wave me off as he continued to hit the keys. Later, rather than sooner, he'd appear to sit with ...
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March 2, 2010
- I woke up this morning and put in a DVD of TD Jakes and his message was to "use what you got". Now that was perfect for my Tuesday. As you know Mondays are extremely long and tiring for me and last night was no different. I found myself blogging last night, and when I opened my eyes my fingers were moving and the stuff I was writing was unbelievable. Turns out, I had on Law ...
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February 24, 2010
- The dead man's mother raged and cried as she told me how she’d discovered her son’s body, in the cabbage patch outside her home. She’d lowered herself onto her knees, she said, touched his blood and wiped her fingers on her face and called out that God is most great.As the winter wind came cold off the Judean Desert, I watched her weep and thought: “I have to write a novel about ...
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February 22, 2010
- The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 26We the People Since 1886 Corporations have joined the masses of the human race legally. They are by law people. The irony is that these people have excelled OJ status. Assuming that OJ actually murdered his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, he can commit crimes and get away with it given he has enough money. How much more money does ...
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February 14, 2010
- Hello,Writing Tip # 17 is up on my blog and it's about Reading! Stop by and check out how reading fiction can make you a better writer!www.kellyabellbooks.com
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February 5, 2010
- One morning, we woke up to find that our breathing had become shallow. The light of the sun was diluted through the window, a reluctant orange lost in a grey haze. We discovered in this moment that the silence was so great our world must be dying. The first of the death rattles sounded: the cars were turned off but for some men in denial. They were falling asleep in their seats. The children no ...
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February 3, 2010
- Anyone can blog or become a blogger. No one and nothing stops you from opening a free (Yes, free.) account with a site like Wordpress.com or Blogger.com a beginning to blog.For the purposes of this blogged book, here's the more important question: Who can blog a book? Not just anyone.To blog a whole book you must have the ability to write a whole book. This entails being able to ...
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February 3, 2010
- Spent several hours trying not to crawl at the the cockroach party this afternoon. They called it an English Department meeting, but we all knew what it was. The head roach led us in some feeler-twitching to celebrate the excellent ways in which we are all coping with the budget cuts: bigger classes, lecture sessions, no raises. But we will get bonuses, since we are fat, lucky Tennessee ...
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February 3, 2010
- “The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.”- Marshall McLuhan True story: A friend told me about someone who had seen a girl’s name written down as La-a. “Is it La?” he asked, stretching out the ah, like it was two syllables. The girl’s mother replied, “That dash isn’t silent. It’s Ladasha.” Years ago, names were Americanized. At ...
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February 2, 2010
- .. at my latest blog on www.openbooktoronto.com. It introduces you to the exciting new TV reality show The Philosopher: Canadian Edition.Yours for shameless self-promotion....
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