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• MANNERS

  August 27, 2009

  • 1990'S A bell rings and a voice says, “Seat belts please,” while three men talk down the aisle to each other, twist in their seats as they discuss office politics. The stewardess jokes with the best-looking man, the one with the loudest voice. It seems that the idea of change comes alive centuries before the body walks it. Even the gesture of keeping elbows in, sharing the arm rest, takes ...
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• Name Normal 1941-1963

  August 21, 2009

  • year of birth to marriage     Just like in the dictionary where all words have already been discovered, normal has been defined. You can't change it. It's just set and everyone knows it. 1.                 Man, wife, child: normal2.                 Single, no child: normal3.                 Single with child: not ...
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• Getting Caught by Changes at the Publisher

  July 30, 2009

  • My first nonfiction book was Stirring the Waters: Writing to Find the Spirit which was nominated for the Nautilus Prize as one of the 5 best spiritual books of 2001. Tuttle was a great publisher but I neglected to ask my editor if she was planning to stay to shepherd the book through to completion and be its advocate. I was told Tuttle was using this book to widen their publishing scope to ...
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