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Feb.19.2012
Call it a long weekend or find any other excuse, but it seems that far too many people are at home today, working on a new social networking site called Pinterest.
When I first read the word Pinterest, I thought it was referring to pine trees and ignored it. Then on Twitter, a friend...
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Feb.14.2012
(I've posted this a few times on Valentine's Day, and it just keeps getting better, at least for me.)
Meeting Michael
Almost six years ago, I stood on a sidewalk in Manhattan Beach, watching my date drive up toward Rosecrans Avenue...
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Feb.10.2012
After watching much of the Super Bowl last Sunday and all of the half time show and after thinking about said show for a good few days, I realized that I am of about four minds about Madonna.
Immediately following the show, there seemed to be a couple of prominent reactions to seeing a 53...
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Feb.03.2012
It sort of came as a shock to me yesterday to realize that my first novel, Her Daughter's Eyes, was ten-years-old. A blogger reviewed the novel, and I realized how wonderful it was to find new readers after all these years. And then I thought: All these years.
Ten years ago,...
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Jan.27.2012
It has been said that going back to school keeps one young, but I had no idea. Really. I had no clue that at the advanced age of fifty, I'd be forced to get a mumps shot. Oh, and chicken pox (shingles). I had a blood test that proved I was immune to measles and rubella, so...
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Jan.21.2012
I forget that not everyone lives on the cycle I do. It was easy to forget during the time my children were in school--all the way until they were in college. It's easy to forget, too, because I'm surrounded by so many people who live on my cycle, this cycle being a school year, more...
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Jan.12.2012
As I get older, I try to accept what comes versus being upset about didn't happen. Mostly, what didn't happen is what happens in life: off I set out for a writing retreat and what I got was a friendly gathering. What I wanted was a gathering of friends, and I ended up with a...
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Jan.04.2012
Wanting to believe in complete rebirth, renewal, and redemption, I love the part of a movie or novel where the character falls flat on her rear or lands in jail or wakes up from a night of debauchery, and decides to change her life--down on her knees on the wet jail cell floor, she swears to...
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Dec.21.2011
Many years ago, I awoke to Santa's sleigh bells jingling right under my window. My heart beat fast as I struggled to listen to the tinkling sounds through the deep pull of sleep. And then as the bells kept jingling, I wanted to jump up out of bed and rush to the window, which I...
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Dec.18.2011
I'm a big proponent of classes. I take them and teach them. I started my first novel in a class, and my short story "Marco on the Beach" was written for a class I took through UCLA Extension. "Marco" was recently published online on The Drum Literary Magazine. What is very...
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Dec.15.2011
The first part of this story makes me seem like a slightly bad person (which I may be), but I'm going to tell it to you anyway. In the twenty years since the original owners and builders of my house moved out, three other families have lived here. The last owners lived here eight years, and...
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Dec.07.2011
Sometimes, I forget what part of the year it is. Before you start to worry about my cognitive function, consider I've been teaching at a college in the semester system for twenty-three years. At some point, whether it is spring or fall doesn't really matter, as the same things happen in...
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Dec.02.2011
Without really meaning to, I participated in NaNoWriMo. It wasn't on purpose or intentional. There I was, roiling with anxiety about projects floating out in the universe (where they still float), so I decided to start writing a scene based on something that happened one night. ...
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Nov.16.2011
I would have never made it far in a strict academic setting because I'm a big old sap. Yes, it's true. I'd rather find some kind of satisfying, happy ending--the two pieces put back together at the end of the tale--than something artfully constucted, delicate as a butterfly's wing, a...
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Nov.09.2011
A long time ago, I took a writing class from a local, well-known author. This was one of my first fiction classes, and I was very nervous. I'd just made the leap from poetry to fiction, and though I'd been a voracious fiction reader my entire life, I was unsure how to tell a story...
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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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