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Jun.11.2013 - 1:34 pm
Ann Margret
Not that I was somebody. Let me clarify that. I was twenty years old, a young and not so rebellious man who walked out on his unsatisfying mail-clerk job after two years. Options...
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Jun.05.2013 - 1:22 pm
Circle Star Theater
The upcoming evening performance at Circle Star Theater was disruptive to write the least. After a year of presenting Broadway plays to San Francisco peninsula populations, during...
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Apr.22.2013 - 11:09 am
402 Avalon Avenue, San Francisco
A touching literary discovery, 402 Avalon follows a boy's journey during the 1950s through one of San Francisco's most eerie and mysterious houses that was built during the 1880s...
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Apr.13.2013 - 9:07 pm
Dubrovnik, Alexander Crown book 1
When I began writing DUBROVNIK, my historical fiction novel with modern urban twists, a simply plot evolved. I didn’t outline the story or characters when I started writing, but...
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Comments from Ben

Oct.21.2011 - 12:05 pm
In response to: The Modern Immigrant
Hi Karen, Nice piece about your move, the wine and harvest moon. Hope all goes well for you. My wife Suzy and I...
Oct.18.2011 - 7:45 pm
In response to: The Truth About Aging
Dear Annette, There is the memory thingy, the inspiration source-code, the digital paradigm shift as well as the bar-...
Sep.12.2011 - 6:40 pm
In response to: Queen of the Italics
Every pleasure receptor in your brain goes south when formatting for an eBook. Once the formatting is complete every...
Aug.20.2011 - 10:05 am
In response to: TRAVELING VS. WRITING
Thanks, Christopher, this was informative, educational and conical. Ben
Aug.19.2011 - 8:11 pm
In response to: Paris, Mon Amour
I'll now have to read French Lessons. As a San Franciscan outsider looking in, I examined Paris through a looking glass...