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  • Like, OMG!: Your Text Edited For A Funeral

    January 16, 2008

    • When I started this blog that dear friend (who has a thing about grammar and spelling) offered to edit my blog. He says it is as "Close to Compulsive" as he gets. Sure. Here is the text...make me look pretty baby.For the few that he has done I am grateful for. Completely grateful. Then I think he realized I churn out blogs like I down a glass of wine. He sent me an email: If there ...
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  • The Joking to come back: My mom and Alzheimer's Disease.

    January 16, 2008

    • I'm in a room at some funeral parlor. My grandmom is in the casket (not looking like Lena Horne). I don't really know where I am. It is a strange place. Lots of 70's wood paneling. A dirge is playing but it is a cross of Elton John's Funeral for a Friend and In the Garden of Eden by Iron Butterfly. There is no familiar face in the crowd of people in this room around the coffin. I ...
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  • The Next New Publishing Thing?

    January 14, 2008

    • Hello, Red Room!I'm brand-new here, but not to writing. I've published 13 self-help books since my first one in 1980.Publishing and I have both been through a lot of ups and downs since 1978, when I signed my first book contract, and we're in the beginning throes of a new publishing revolution -- small presses, special focus online bookstores and new, small special interest bookstores are about ...
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