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Oct.30.2010
I moved to San Francisco ten years ago after having been raised in Texas. You might think that I'd be torn over whom to root for in The World Series (that really isn't a world series at all). I moved to (supposedly) the most liberal city in America in the summer of 2000. The first thing I did...
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Oct.16.2010
While in the bat cave (see last blog entry) I finished Double Your Creative Power: Make Your Subconscious a Partner in the Writing Process by S.L. Stebel. It's an older how-to book for anyone interested in an introduction to the writing process or for anyone who is stuck pondering what to actually...
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Oct.11.2010
I am visiting my father's house, the house where he was born. I was resting on the bed the other night just after dark in the slumbering community of a thousand. It was the first chance I'd had to be alone in several days and I was lying very still enjoying the lack of sound in a small town.......
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Sep.14.2010
I just finished Under the Blue Flag and I feel compelled to write about it before I go to my unfulfilling, low-paying job. Quite honestly, I would never pick up a book about Kosovo. No, too depressing, not interested. However, I got this book at the library because I know the author (in a very...
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Sep.11.2010
Twitter, as you well know, is the answer to the question What are you doing right now? I tried it for 3 weeks and was bored off my behind. I'm not a big believer in multi-tasking, but I find it hard to explain in 140 characters what I'm doing right now. I think the answer should be limited to...
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Aug.24.2010
I just finished See Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing, which was quite an entertaining read. I'm not sure that what I'm writing is technically considered chick lit, but it was a fun adventure to dip into a somewhat foreign world. There were lots of stereotypically pink & pale blue pages...
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Aug.13.2010
Yesterday Barbara died. She was the mother of my friend, co-worker, and former roommate. It was a long battle for her daughter, my friend. We all have our hard times; this is hers. However, I find, once again, that another's loss awakens my own. Why did I pick up C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed...
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Aug.01.2010
Up to no good? Up to no writing? I have written sporadically lately, but with great moments of inspiration. It could be that I have also decided to accomplish several things that I had put off, like saving this black gossip chair from a lifetime of ugliness. I jazzed it up with some pretty...
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Jul.20.2010
Books are like lovers: some we remember fondly, others fade into that place of What was I thinking?
Some books are better than others, using the right language to get us into bed at night, excited to hold them close as we fall off to sleep. Others we throw across the room in anger or disgust. How...
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Jul.07.2010
I was sick recently, the dreaded summer cold and so I've been reading a lot. I just can't get through this one book. I was a literature major in college and the idea of not finishing a book was blasphemous to me until I was well into my 20's. I used to feel very obligated to the author, until my...
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Jun.24.2010
This weekend is Gay Pride in San Francisco. It's not a weekend any more, it's a month now. Pride month. For some people in the city it's a big deal, for others, it's really not because everyday is a day in which they have freedom & pride surrounding their sexuality, no matter what it is. ...
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Jun.18.2010
I just finished Marcus Buckingham's Find Your Strongest Life. Like many "self-help" books it was probably written with good intent, but inevitably makes the reader feel bad in some way. In this case, it was a little disheartening to learn that, according to cited studies, all the...
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Jun.17.2010
So, unless it's a famous author that I am enamored with, I try to keep my encounters with famous people on the DL; however, I was at the gym this morning getting my sweat on and this man (who I'll call Fanny-Boy cuz he's working with a trainer) who I see here all the time complains about the music...
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Jun.15.2010
All righty folks, I finished reading The Glorious World Cup the other day and I can say it was a very fun read. It walks the reader through all of the highs and lows of the world cup, some humorous, some utterly tragic. There are heroes and evil-doers on page after page in the form of nations as...
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Jun.13.2010
I watched Bright Star last night and I was reminded of the Keats class that I took years ago. My professor was Tom Clark and he could talk about John Keats for three hours straight with no notes, just total recall. He spent hours in the Berkeley Library week after week, year after year,...
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About Katherine
Katherine McWilliams was born in Michigan and raised in Texas. Growing up on the Mexican border and spending summers thousands of miles away in small town America provided much material for her stories. She took the academic route and discovered deep into...
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The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation jdrf.org Macula Vision Research Foundation mvrf.org Washington Office on Latin America wola.org/juarez