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Jul.07.2008
So now I'm blogging. In two places. You'd think that would be enough new technology stuff but, no, I had to find out about something called Twitter. I heard a lot of mention of it but had no idea what it was. I did what for me was obvious. Well, obvious at 2 a.m. I typed twitter.com into my...
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Jul.04.2008
I'm back in Massachusetts, the Southwest a distant dream at the moment. It took forever to get here, or so it seemed. You just can't get from Point A to Point B these days without a lot of expense and a lot of stress. The best thing to do is prepare for it. I spent literally the entire day and...
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Jun.28.2008
I do! With the help of my GPS system I made my way from Albuquerque to Santa Fe this morning. It was basically a straight shot up Route 25. Head for the mountains, aim for the sky.
I've always wanted to visit Santa Fe and my friend, Ronni, had moved there from the East Coast many years ago. Here...
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Jun.27.2008
What a week! I'm loving Albuquerque!
I came to help a friend ship a cat to his owners in the U.K. (the cat is still here and will remain here) and I have found myself taping a TV program to air in July, and live on the local CBS Affiliate station's news program where they warned me I might not get...
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Jun.25.2008
In case anyone has missed me, I'm in Albuquerque for ten days. I'm using a friend's computer, a p.c. I don't do Windows. I miss my Mac but she doesn't have WIFI at home. And who would have thought that I would have learned THOSE words in this lifetime?!
Among other things I arrived to help my...
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Jun.16.2008
No, no, not the movie. Here. On Red Room. I'm on the Front Page! Wonder of wonders! And truly, I did wonder how authors were chosen to be on the Front Page. I finally decided that I'd never know.
Late last night I received an e-mail from Belle Yang (it wasn't late on the West Coast) telling me...
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Jun.12.2008
I've done two radio interviews this week. The first one was taped and will air in CA next week. The second one went out live and is to be archived. That one originates in Canada and is heard all over North America. Why am I talking about it? Well, I could tell you it's because I look so thin,...
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Jun.06.2008
I can't believe how competitive I am! Whatever happened to quiet Darlene? The Darlene who has multiple writing awards but never walked into a competition with anything but an attitude of: well, it's frosting on the cake. I've competed at dog shows and won. Not me personally: the dog. Although I do...
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May.29.2008
Despite the title of this entry, it has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. It does, however, have everything to do with books.
I love bookstores. I can't help it. They make me feel good. Peaceful. There's a sense of belonging among the shelves crammed with volumes. Some by friends, most by...
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May.21.2008
I was listening to the news today. Big mistake. It's invariably depressing and today it just made me irritated. American Airlines announced that they are charging $15. for the first bag that you check, $25. for the second. Having booked a flight with United last month to leave in June, I'd already...
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May.17.2008
Words often strike me a little differently. Here's today's example. I walked out of a coffee shop and headed for my car. Parked near me was a car with what I'd thought was an obsolete sign in the window. It read: Baby on Board. I thought people stopped using those long ago, that they'd gone...
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May.10.2008
It's the night before Mother's Day and all through the house, not a creature is stirring. Well, that's not true. The cat is moving around somewhere. Or taking another nap. And the house echoes. I should be writing. I'm trying not to "should" on myself. My mother was the one person who...
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May.03.2008
Am I the last book-a-holic on earth to have found Library Thing (www.librarything.com)? What a nfity idea! You go there and enter the books in your personal library, along with tags if you like. They can be displayed as lists or they'll display the covers. A quick click puts them online thanks...
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Apr.25.2008
I'm not a fast writer. Careful, yes. Fast, no. I've written five books. Some people might count the sections I wrote for a Harcourt Distance Learning Course as books but I don't.
There are authors who can write two or three books in a year. I can write one. One. An editor I'd worked with once...
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Apr.19.2008
I'm not exactly a newcomer to writing. I still remember the days when I did all of my interviews either in person or via telephone. Taped, of course. Then, along came the internet. It's very handy for asking a quick question when someone lives in another time zone, or another country. Even a quck...
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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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