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May.22.2008
Yesterday my husband Mitch came across a reference to the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago. Although Mitch is on several military-related online “lists,” he had never before heard of the library. He sent me an email and suggested I contact the library to offer to donate a copy of MRS....
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May.21.2008
It’s college graduation season – and while this season gives me numerous blogging topics for www.flippingburgersandbeyond.blogspot.com – I’m talking about something different in this www.mrslieutenant.blogspot.com post.
And this something different is that, throughout the U.S., there are graduating...
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May.19.2008
MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL is about to embark on a virtual book tour around the blogosphere.
What is a virtual book tour? Instead of book authors flying from city to city and staying in hotels (and shlepping their luggage), book authors sit in the comfort of their own homes and write...
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May.16.2008
According to the United States Department of Defense link at www.defenselink.mil/afd/: President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country.
On August 31, 1949,...
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May.16.2008
I wish I had a magic wand that anyone could use to organize himself or herself. No such luck.
The truth is that, thanks to the internet, we have access to so much more information than was available only a few short years ago. And added to the information available on the internet at any one...
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May.16.2008
My book MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL is dedicated to Elaine Siegel Masser – my AEPhi sorority sister, college roommate and friend – who died at an early age from breast cancer.
On Monday evening I attended a reception at the AEPhi sorority house at UCLA for AEPhi alumni from chapters...
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May.14.2008
One of the pleasures of writing this blog in connection with my book MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL is learning about organizations and companies that support military personnel and their families.
Just now, by looking at recent headlines on www.Spousebuzz.com, I learned about Royal...
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May.13.2008
Armor Officers Basic #21 ran from 13 May 70 to 16 Jul 70. On May 13 the four AOB wives in MRS. LIEUTENANT had not yet met.
Here’s how Sharon Gold, one of the four wives, describes her husband’s return home from his first day of AOB:
The Fiat appears in the open area between the three buildings...
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May.12.2008
I’m always on the look-out to learn about organizations or projects helping military personnel and their families. In fact, I include several of these on my website www.mrslieutenant.com in a section titled “Support Military Families.” And I blog about other organizations or projects I find.
In...
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May.11.2008
In honor of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and my parents Ruth and Albert Zimbler, I thought I’d reveal some of the differences between my fictional character Sharon Gold in MRS. LIEUTENANT and myself.
While Sharon Gold’s experiences as a new army officer’s wife in the spring of 1970 are based on...
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May.09.2008
In my last post I promised to describe more of my interview with Anita Rufus of the Anita Rufus Show on KNewsRadio in Palm Springs, California. And I’ll get to that promise in a moment.
First I want to share something I just learned – today is Military Spouse Appreciation Day. According to...
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May.08.2008
I had planned to write this post about my interview yesterday by Anita Rufus of the Anita Rufus Show, KNewsRadio, Palm Springs. (And I will get to that interview.) Yet, as I typed today’s date for my own records, I realized that my husband officially began active army duty 38 years ago today....
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May.07.2008
Having recommended movies about the Vietnam era, I want to now recommend two books about that era in addition to my just-released book MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL.
One recommended book is Tim O’Brien’s GOING AFTER CACCIATO – a fantastical novel that begins in Vietnam and leads out of the...
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May.06.2008
In yesterday’s post I mentioned MEDIUM COOL – a 1969 movie written and directed by Haskell Wexler and focusing on the anti-war protests that led to violence at the Democratic National Convention in August of 1968. I suggested putting the title on Netflix if you’ve never seen the film.
And I’ve...
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May.05.2008
Following the killing of four and the wounding of nine students at Kent State University by Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, numerous pro-war and anti-war activities happened. To give you a feeling of these activities, here are news items from “Day by Day: The Seventies,” Volume 1, 1970-1975,...
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About Phyllis
I'm the co-founder of the marketing consulting company Miller Mosaic LLC and the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks. Visit my author site www.PhyllisZimblerMiller.com
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Soldiers Angels (www.soldiersangels.org) -- "May No Soldier Go...
Phyllis’s Favorite Books
These are only a few of my favorite books: THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK by Doris Lessing A ROOM OF HER OWN by Virginia Woolf MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf THE HOURS...