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Jan.26.2011
For a lot of my friends, a retreat is an excuse to get together with friends and hang out and talk about a favorite topic. It's more like a mini-vacation with a little work thrown in. At the office where I used to work, "retreat" meant several days of meetings with at least twenty other...
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Feb.09.2010
In the past few months, I've sent literally hundreds of submissions. I know that you're not supposed to, but I often send dozens of simultaneous submissions at a time, so it's not uncommon for me to get five or six rejection letters in a single day.
This rate of rejection is, at the best of times...
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Dec.30.2009
As a Buddhist living in a Western country, I feel caught between two very different definitions of "happiness." Both traditions insist that happiness is something worth striving for, a lifelong goal, but the similarity ends there. Westerners are pummeled with images of the good time they...
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About Lise
I live in the Santa Cruz mountains with my family and a prohibitive number of animals. My first novel won First Prize for Novel at the 2005 East of Eden writer's conference. I've also won the Sheila K. Smith prize for fiction.