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September 5, 2009
- Back to school time has come again to our big cities, quaint little towns and cozy rural areas all over the nation. By the Tuesday after Labor Day our neighborhoods become a little less chaotic; the mall is dead from Monday to Friday, many movie theaters stop their matinee showings and the beaches of Florida are deserted once again until Saturday rolls around and the kids are free to have some ...
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July 18, 2009
- Once a while ago, a friend of mine did my Tarot reading based on my birth date. I'm not a big believer in readings, though I love any event that is all about me. So she figured something out with my dates and numbers, and showed me my card, or cards rather. I am the double Hermit. The Hermit is pretty easy to define for you as it's like the meaning of the word. The Hermit likes ...
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March 21, 2009
- At first, I loved Twitter's simplicity. No MySpace or Facebook gadgets like growing gardens, photo albums, snowball fights, groups, or event invites. You just go there, type a sentence up to 140 characters, and that's it.I also enjoyed (and still do) the surreal opportunity to follow people like Tina Fey, Joe Scarborough, and even Kevin Smith. Crazy, the people you find on Twitter. As I learned ...
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December 29, 2008
- Today I did what authors shouldn't do. I checked my ranking on Amazon.com. As usual, the overall ranking was humbling. There is literally hundreds of thousands of books more popular than mine. But I find that in the sublists, I've actually cracked the top 10 in one category: Paper Ephemera.Encyclopedia of Collectible Children's Books was sitting at the #5 spot today. Who knows how high or how low ...
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August 25, 2008
- When Annie was a little girl, everytime we'd pull the car up in front of the house, Bill would announce, "Home again, home again, jiggity-jig." He doesn't say that any more -- that "little girl" is turning 16 next month -- but the phrase still runs through my mind whenever we get home from a trip.Techno-nude in the wilderness. Spring-fed lakes, hot springs, blue jays, cedar ...
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June 9, 2008
- This year I won't have two books on the bestseller list--hardcover and paperback--nor will I earn rave reviews from Kirkus, the New York Times and the Manchester Guardian. My earnings from writing will amount to next to nothing.So what keeps me going? If after nearly 25 years I'm not even close to "making it", why bother maintaining the daily practice of writing? Because I can't not ...
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