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Nov.06.2010
My nickname has been "Bird" since childhood. For the past several years I've stated many times: This birdie neither twitters nor tweets. Now, I've finally opened a Twitter account.
If you want to follow me, my user name is LaurelAnneHill. To sign up, go to http://twitter.com/#!/...
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Oct.25.2010
Written by Laurel on October 25th, 2010
Select your favorite sin
Get ready for those Halloween time-of-the-year tingles down the old spinal column. The Wicked Women Writers Challenge podcast (Six Stories of Sin) goes live on October 28. Go to http://www.horroraddicts.net, episode #49.
My...
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Oct.04.2010
How many high school alumni associations can you name that hold annual gatherings for former students regardless of the year of graduation? Of those gatherings, how many draw hundreds of alumni annually for a school that became extinct over 35 years ago?
San Francisco’s Polytechnic High tops my...
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Sep.16.2010
CNN World News posted a great HeroRAT article, including a dozen photos, on September 8, 2010. HeroRATs, as you may recall, are the giant pouched African rats used to sniff out land mines and tuberculosis. The title of the CNN piece is “Giant rats put noses to work on Africa’s land mine epidemic...
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Sep.10.2010
Engine No. 2472, March 2009
My husband, David, and I were steam locomotive “engineers for an hour” on September 2, 2010. Actually, the time clock registered 1-1/2 hours for me and 30 minutes for David. “You’re the one writing the novel about the train,” David said. What a sweet guy! Running #...
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Sep.04.2010
The Brazen Ms. Liquid Amber
Okay, I confess. This week I put out a contract on Ms. Liquid Amber, a senior citizen and longtime member of our front yard garden club. Oh, my husband and I had tried to trim back her lofty ambitions, but she kept leaning over the neighbor’s roof on windy days...
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Aug.31.2010
Photo from the Sacramento Bee, 8/17/10, Getty Images/Joe Raedle
Some organizations really understand the meaning of patience, perseverance and creativity.
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is one of them. UMCOR, a charity with a 70-year history of relief and recovery work around...
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Aug.29.2010
Ever wonder why some people gain weight easily and others don't? According to some scientific studies, the bacteria living in our guts could play a role. My podcast, "My Bacteria are to Blame," takes a light-hearted look at "bugs" and body weight.
You may listen to "My...
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Aug.23.2010
Today I received a power point photo presentation in an email from one of my relatives. Please use the link below to my website blog to view the photos taken during the Pakistan relief effort. Once you get to my website blog, click on the indicated link there to access the slides. Then please...
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Aug.20.2010
I've been receiving lots of positive feedback on my recent opinion piece published by AOL News on August 17, 2010. I'm happy to report, "Support your Local Hero Rat" is a success.
So why did I choose to write about APOPO HeroRATs? How did I even learn HeroRATs existed?
Things started...
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Aug.17.2010
Giant pouched African rats have a nose for success. APOPO, a registered charity in Belgium and based in Tanzania, has trained these long-whiskered critters to sniff out unexploded land mines and save human lives. Working for rewards of banana slices and peanuts, "Hero Rats" schooled in...
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Aug.17.2010
Written by Laurel on August 17th, 2010 HeroRAT in Training (photo by APOPO)
HeroRATs Arise!
In case you were wondering, this blog entry isn’t about my heroic, eight-foot-tall lizard person on the planet Thard. No, today “Gundack the kren” makes room for some real-life heroes with four legs:...
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Aug.12.2010
Adapting Sideways© (www.adaptingsideways.com) has posted a cute and informative animated video on YouTube. The subject is point of narration. Connect via their website or use this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86smAU4YY-U.
Adapting Sideways is the brainchild of Charlotte Cook, publisher...
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Aug.06.2010
All right. I just reposted my photos (with crazy captions) from BayCon and RavenCon 2010. We'll see if they are still in place by morning.
Maybe they didn't go to Mars. Maybe the pictures joined the ring of misplaced socks around Saturn. Who knows?
If you didn't succeed in finding the photos...
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Aug.06.2010
For those looking for my photos of science fiction/fantasy conventions, those pictures may have been transported to Mars. I've alerted my website manager about my disagreeable blog site. I'll keep you posted.
Laurel Anne Hill
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About Laurel
LAUREL ANNE HILL grew up in San Francisco, with more dreams of adventure than good sense or money. Her close brushes with death, love of family, respect for honor and belief in a higher power continue to influence her writing and life.
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Winter Nights Shelter and Shelter, Inc.
HeroRAT