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Jul.05.2012
In what now seems like another life, I purchased a book entitled Colleges that Change Lives by Loren Pope. Anyone who has in recent years helped a high school student find a school has read or heard of this book.
I bought it out of a certain desperation, my older son needing--I thought--a changed...
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Jun.27.2012
I've been given the rare opportunity in this life to tell people--to teach people--what I know about writing. The bad news is that I seem to have missed a few boats on the writing bandwagon, which is a huge wagon these days with tons of people on it, some of whom don't actually write.
The other day...
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Jun.22.2012
Currently, as of this moment, I am insuring four people in their twenties, three on my company provided insurance plan and one whom I pay for out-of-pocket. I don't have to pay for the oldest child, seeing as how he's told me not to, but I fear giant insurance companies, even slightly progressive...
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Jun.15.2012
I love to travel, and I also really hate it though the reasons for my antipathy are ridiculous. First, I miss my bathroom. A lot. And my bed. I miss my pets, even though I don't have any. I miss watering my plants and I miss my couch. I miss my car and my street and my kitchen.
But I love travel...
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Jun.04.2012
The good news is that I've failed at just about everything, especially the important stuff: relationships, parenting, writing, teaching. You name it, and I've screwed it up. Cutting of contact with people for years, making enormously bad decisions for my sons at regular and predictable ...
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May.29.2012
Sadly, I've never been able to lay claim to some of the more interesting bloodlines of the world. I have no Irish, Jewish, gypsy. I'm not from Malaysia or Madagascar. No Inuit. No Armenian. I have the hodgepodge of typical immigrant America in my blood, a solid melding of English, Scottish, German...
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May.15.2012
You know it's a bad day when your computer recognition program doesn't recognize you. Frankly, I don't blame mine. How shocked it must have been this morning to see the me sitting in front of it, googly glasses, hair like wire, face like putty, eyes watery. I didn't even recognize myself.
"Who the...
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May.11.2012
While I wait on agents and editors to decide my "big" writing fates, I've been sending out poems,essays, and short stories to the universe of small journals and magazines, online and hard copy. My Submittable record shows that in the past year and a half, I've had 16 acceptances, 93 rejections, and...
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May.09.2012
In my writing classes, I often have beginning writers create a list of all the things they want to write about, things as small as the description of the aroma of a morning meal prepared over a campfire to an epic, 500 page poem detailing the migration of Asiatic folks across the Bering...
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Apr.26.2012
Some random, and perhaps related oddities of the last few weeks.
1) I'm re-experiencing the empty nest syndrome, which was a mild, cold virus like illness last time. Of course, when my youngest went to college six years ago, I was in the midst of a rather ugly-at-the time separation as well as a...
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Apr.12.2012
I hate it when metaphors are hanging around like bad dogs, just asking to be kicked. But sometimes, I'm smart enough to see them and to get it, have my "duh" moment, and then move on.
Our house was built in 1962 by the Sue family, all of them here on the weekends and evenings until the house was...
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Apr.05.2012
This week, I watched a German film "3," which involved a married couple and their lover, a story about a very fluid triangle. Yet the triangle for me wasn't the most exciting aspect of this film, though the story was good and interesting and involved coincidence. What caught my attention...
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Mar.25.2012
Back in the olden days of yore, my mother or some other older female person might say when regarding a loose or vaguely moral-ed young woman, "Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?"
I never thought of the woman giving away anything she shouldn't, but I did think of the cow, usually...
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Mar.15.2012
If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I would go public yesterday. I would take my Facebook magic and sell it now, just at the apex of interest and enthusiasm, just at the moment before it all starts to slip away.
Slip away you ask? Well, yes. I can prognosticate here, using myself as a social media barometer...
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Mar.07.2012
There are various aspects of myself I'm not too keen on, and I'm talking about my upper arms. The parts I'm talking about are those internal, deep personality flaws that I've spent thousands of dollars on through therapy, self-help books, and red wine.
The only true cure for my psychic flaws...
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About Jessica
Jessica Barksdale Inclán's debut novel Her Daughter's Eyes, published in 2001, was the premier novel published under New American Library's new imprint Accent. Her Daughter's Eyes was a final nominee for the YALSA Award for the best books of 2001 and best...
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