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May.17.2009
I was at the gym today listening to a great, uplifting tape I had downloaded on my ipod about how anyone can change their life and become who they...
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May.24.2009
I was talking to someone the other day about their struggle with losing weight. She told me that every day she gets up she intends to eat a certain...
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May.31.2009
The recent headline in the New York Times was: “When Economy Sours, Tootsie Rolls Soothe Souls.” When the economy goes down, candy sales go up, the...
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Jun.07.2009
Is It All About Willingness? I ended up watching a PBS special yesterday with Wayne Dyer. Now I had followed him for years, then one day decided he...
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Jun.14.2009
The supervisor in my office brought in donuts last week. She rarely brings in junk food and is good shape herself, but she just said that she felt...
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Jun.21.2009
I was listening to Dr. Laura recently. A caller called into the show stating that she was fat (the caller). She didn't like it and she knew how to...
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Jun.28.2009
I have a friend whose husband is an alcoholic. She told me recently her husband was hoping to speak with me about alcohol, knowing I'd been off...
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Jul.19.2009
22 Years Ago I Quit Drinking July 3 was my 22nd year of quitting drinking. It's also my real birthday, so every year I have 2 birthdays. I don't...
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Jul.26.2009
Blunt enough? Well, my blog is titled "Blunt Talk About Addictions." I know I will get flack from people reading this. For some people---...
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Aug.02.2009
last week on my way to work. It seemed she was carrying some sort of a coffee cake, wrapped in saran wrap, along with a back-pack. She must have been...
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diane-lockward's picture
Jul.19.2009
Short short poems, that is. I have to admit that I've been leery of them for years. There doesn't seem to be enough to grab my interest, not enough...
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Oct.08.2009
I'm sure I would praise this collection even if it hadn't been published by my own publisher, Wind Publications. But I'm glad that it was published...
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May.08.2010
I don't think that the job of proofreading the galleys can be called "fun," but it's a job that has to be taken very seriously. The...
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May.25.2010
(Click for Amazon) Several months ago novelist Lauren B. Davis hosted me at a poetry reading at Trinity Church in Princeton, NJ, where she is writer-...
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Jun.03.2010
Yesterday's sidebar counter said, "It is finally here!" Not quite, but I was nervously awaiting a box of 20 advance copies. My publisher...
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michael-warren's picture
May.13.2013
  My fourth ex-wife maintains blogs that document contemporaneous moments in her life. Reviewing her previous posts, I come to a period when, as...
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marilyn-kallet's picture
Feb.07.2009
Lou helped me create the slide show for next week's panel in Chicago.  He's tech-savvy, this blessed husband of mine.  This morning we put together...
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chris-rodell's picture
Mar.18.2009
It’s been fascinating to watch the country that recoiled at Abu Ghraib embrace with gusto the concept of inflicting bodily harm on the A.I.G. bonus...
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chris-rodell's picture
May.15.2009
Is it time to take the guy who said prolonged internet usage would lead to social isolation and beat him virtually senseless with the combined weight...
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chris-rodell's picture
May.18.2009
I admit this is going to sound sexist, but when I learned what was planned for Rachel Alexander’s future, my first thought was, “That slut!” I don’t...
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