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• A Poem by Ike

  September 25, 2009

  • Ike still slips sometimes and calls himself illiterate, but he's not.  Not anymore. He knows it, but it's hard to stop seeing himself that way.  For the last ten years he's fought hard to learn reading and writing skills with the help of a tutor at Project Second Chance, an adult literacy program. Somewhere along the line, Ike discovered poetry.  When his tutor told him that poems don't ...
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• Am I a Liar?

  August 13, 2009

  • I was searching my digital photo files for yet another online profile.  It had to be fairly close up, with no hands on my shoulder from a cropped-out friend, and it had to look like me.  Not easy.  I finally found the photo I used for Red Room.  I was surprised to see that it was taken in 2004.  How time flies. Does using a photo from 2004 make me a liar? How old can a photo be before ...
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• NPR Beach Bums?

  July 31, 2009

  • Almost 16,000 “book-loving NPR Types” have finished voting on the best beach book of all time.  I've read 63 of them, marked in bold.  Does that make me a beach bum?  Have I missed any great ones?1. The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling2. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee3. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini4. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane ...
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