non-fiction
September 23, 2008
- I'm playing with some book proposals. Okay, I've really been working in earnest but "playing" seems like a better term for things that may never see the light of day. I'm not sure if this is just the usual insecurity between books or if it's the market. One of the books, I might add, has nothing to do with animals. That shouldn't be surprising for anyone who knows me well and knows ...
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September 17, 2008
- I'm about to be become a first time author as of January 12, 2009. Yes, I'm excited. However, I never anticipated the painful process I endured for five months to reach this point. Let me give you some background so that you can follow this track. I wrote a non-fiction book about Sara Jane Moore, the 45 year old woman who shot at Pres. Gerald Ford in 1975. This book contains history, crime, a ...
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August 26, 2008
- When I was in high school, I hated it, which isn't a surprise, but I did something relatively good because of it: I applied for the Regional Occupation Program (ROP) and ended up working at first at The Contra Costa Times and then the local Orinda paper. I had the notion that I'd get out of some things I hated about high school, mainly most of my fellow students. I was right about that, but ...
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July 19, 2008
- This was a tough writing week. I'm working on a project, a longer one and I'm about 16K words into it (by my estimate that's about 50 pages in a published book). I may as well have been writing in a car because I hit a wall. Crash, ouch. Perhaps it is the subject matter, which is myself, that is the problem, but I just couldn't write anymore. After a couple of days of not writing and ...
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July 6, 2008
- Today Spotted Walking to Urban Market (the end of the block):A man on the stoop three door down hunched over. He does not live there. He is talking about how "Whores should think twice about the consequences" This conversation is going on without anyone around him.A woman fifty feet up spinning about in a circle. She has no expression on her face. she is just spinning in a ...
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March 23, 2008
- The reason I attended the Maui Writers Conference that year was not because I’d dutifully saved my money, planned ahead, and was finally ready to put myself out there after years of hiding behind my fear of being rejected in a noble effort to publish my yet-to-be-written memoir. No, the real reason I decided to attend the conference that year was simply because I was chasing yet another ...
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March 11, 2008
- I wonder how long it took for Silda Wall Spitzer to pull herself together before she was hauled in front of the camera. How much crying did she get out? What sort of eye makeup she used to cover the puffiness. What sort of decent mood relaxants to numb her enough to stand there for a full hour. Where did she go after it was all done? Did they both go home together? Did she run away? Did she ...
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March 11, 2008
- There are very few things to be relieved about when you are a few (translation: more than a few) pounds overweight. There is also some joy of not being completely competitive. Some joy in being somewhat of a passive aggressive slacker. One of these particular moments in time and space when realizing that my overweight ass might live longer than those who are ripped cut and being competitive at ...
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March 3, 2008
- Did you read the story in the New York Times – “National Enquirer Article a Fabrication?” I can’t remember what the article being referred to was about, something to do with the founding of Rome I think. Still, I was astonished that a nationally distributed periodical would knowingly publish something containing falsehoods. More>>
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February 25, 2008
- Saturday Night found me in emergency. What they did on Wednesday apparently was not fully accomplished, and the process decided to finish itself on Saturday...leaving my husband like an evil pit bull in the Emergency Room: HEY! LADY HEMMORAGHING HERE! Hans can indeed be a scary, angry white guy. That is why I love him so. I said it to the NP a few weeks ago: I feel like a political candidate ...
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