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Sep.22.2011
The Red Room's topic for the week caught my interest. Reading in public is an interesting topic, especially for someone who writes non-fiction and whose first book was about Toy dogs. I once passed on a reading at a meeting of The National Writers' Union because I thought I wouldn't fit in. All...
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Sep.20.2011
I've been listening to the usual rhetoric from politicans and their ilk with a few others mixed in for good (or bad) measure. Once again, Warren Buffett has declared that he's not paying enough in income tax. He doesn't think it's fair. A few celebrities have gotten on the bandwagon. I'...
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Sep.14.2011
This week the Red Room has asked us to blog about Vampires. Do we believe in them? Do they exist? It's kind of a loaded question. Just today a murderer in Massachusetts told the police that he's a Vampire. Does he believe he is? I have no idea and I don't want to get close enough to a...
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Aug.25.2011
"There are few things in life as rewarding as giving a homeless animal a second chance at life. Some have never had a proper home, many have never had a good home and some have lost their home because of their owner's life circumstances, often the death of the owner or the birth of a child who...
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Jul.28.2011
I'm feeling a little melancholy tonight. I never thought I'd feel that way about the closing of a "big box" store, but there you have it. We lost so many independent bookstores when the big guys opened and I was pained by each closing. The stores and their owners were so passionate about...
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Jul.21.2011
"We've heard a lot about MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusproduce) mainly as it affects people. It also affects companion animals. But there's no need to panic. If you have a healthy dog or cat, there is little chance of your pet being infected with MRSA. Even if your pet...
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Jul.06.2011
I was sorely tempted, on the Fourth of July, to post The Pledge of Allegiance as my Facebook status update. Really. The whole thing. I don't think people really consider it. I wonder how many people think about the meaning of the day, of those who died so that we may be free to express our...
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Jun.29.2011
Okay, I'll admit it, I'm puzzled. The world has, apparently, become too strange for me. Let me take you back a few weeks.
My best friend/chosen sister is visiting. She came to help me while I was recovering from eye surgery and wouldn't be able to bend over, etc., which meant I needed help...
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May.25.2011
I was always the nearsighted kid with the glasses. Funny thing, though, my right lens was like a Coke bottle but the left one was much thinner. I spent most of my life like that. And then I tried contact lenses. My eyes rejected the hard lenses and I hated the soft ones. There was something about...
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May.14.2011
This week, Ivory Madison pointed me in the direction of R.N. Morris' Red Room video #2 of a writer's life. She didn't want me to drive myself crazy looking at Amazon numbers for my new book,The Complete Cat's Meow. She needn't have worried. I did that with my first book. Now I just glance...
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May.04.2011
When the Red Room asked us to blog about writing for free it struck a chord. It's a topic that periodically rears its head on writers' lists. I'll get back to the lists in a minute.
I have earned my living as a writer for more years than I'd care to count. I started with celebrity profiles, added...
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May.02.2011
Cats aren't exactly as mysterious as they are purported to be, but there is enough that isn't widely known about them to make that seem true. Your cat really wouldn't mind you knowing more about felines, and would welcome the extra interest.
Here are 10 more facts about your cat that you may...
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Apr.21.2011
I'm thinking hard about what will be cost-effective and what won't when it come to promting my newest book. For those readers who aren't involved in publising, this will likely be of no interest to you. To other authors, maybe it will. When there's no budget to hire an outside publicist, it...
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Apr.16.2011
April 16th is nearly over. What's special about it? Nothing, really. It's my birthday. Every day is someone's birthday. I met a friend for lunch, it was miserably cold and grey today, more like January than April but that's life in New England. Andrea and I had a nice lunch then we went our...
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Mar.31.2011
After spending years with your cat, you may think you know everything there is to know about her. But here are 10 things that your favorite feline may not have gotten around to sharing with you.
1. A domestic cat can run about 31 mph. Running fast is something usually attributed to wild cats,...
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About Darlene
I was born at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts where Jack Lemmon made his appearance in the elevator many years before. My mother managed to make it all the way to the delivery room. It seems as if I’ve always written although my first career...
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