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Vicki Larson Journalist, would-be novelist, deep thinker

Vicki Larson
Vicki Larson
Mill Valley, California
Member since: Aug, 2008
Last login: 10/07/2009
Last update : 08/28/2009
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  • After a somewhat nebulous beginning, I have found success in two things in my life: being a journalist and being a mom. Since newspapers are slowly dying and I can't make a living at mothering, it's time to try something new. I have published an essay in an anthology, the first step in what I hope will lead to greater things, perhaps writing the Great American Novel that I promised my parents I'd write one day (but, honestly, it was a ruse to spend the summer traveling cross country for "fact-finding" instead of working).

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  • The problem with manners

    August 27, 2009

    • For almost all my life, I have been plagued with bad manners. Not the kind that I would write about to, say, Miss Manners for some advice, because she might laugh at me or at least not take me seriously. But it’s been a huge problem nonetheless. I have been nice. Too nice. Oh, I can see you all, sniggering, rolling your eyes, making that circular motion to your head, looking a ...
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  • A most perfectly different hero

    August 13, 2009

    • Once there was a boy.There wasn’t anything particularly unusual about him when he was born, but his parents, like most parents, believed him to be the most perfect baby.He was a rough-and-tumble child, as boys tend to be — active and talkative and social. Somewhere along the way, he developed little quirks — the “right” person had to take him out of the car seat, his shoelaces had to be ...
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  • Taking a bite out of my obsession

    August 5, 2009

    • Like Shakira, I have a fijacion oral.That is probably the only thing I have in common with the Hispanic superstar despite a year and a half of belly-dance classes and two year of college Spanish (not to mention five years of living in Miami), never mind that she’s years — decades? — younger than I.I don’t remember exactly when I developed oral anxiety, but it may be as far back as that ...
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  • More self-promotion

    April 28, 2009

    • I know — it's ugly and wrong. The only times I post on here is when I'm promoting a talk for "Knowing Pains." I'm sure this will send me straight to writer hell. I'll take that risk.I'll be joining the editor of and other contributors to  "Knowing Pains" as well as the editor of and contributors to "Writin' on Empty" for a reading/signing in San Rafael. Here's the ...
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  • OK, so I lied ... or maybe not

    October 22, 2008

    • When I was a teenager, I promised my parents I would write the Great American Novel.This got me out of spending a summer as a clerk at Bloomie's, where my mother worked and where she had helped land me a summer job. It's not that I was against making money; I wasn't, although I never put it as the highest priority or even any sort of priority. I just wanted to go cross-country with my friends and ...
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Comments I've Written

  • Great story!

    And this is why I don't go to church or synagogue! Thanks for a truly funny story.

  • Thank you, Lynn

    Lynn, what a lovely compliment to come from you, especailly after reading your stories.

  • Thank you

    Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you have found the "meaning of life." I keep redefining it!

  • Thank you

    Thank you, Mary. That is very kind. I enjoyed your story, too.

  • You are right

    Thank you for this lovely post. My favorite superhero has always been Batman — he has no super powers; he's just a man with a desire to make things right in the world (OK, and the money to make it

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