stories
May 25, 2008
- Hi! I"ve been a freelance writer for six years and I feel it's time to transition from magazine and online journalist to book author.
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May 14, 2008
- I'm excited to join Redroom and to meet all of you. I'm a longtime business journalist with an interest in philanthropy. I'm coauthoring a book called "Small Acts: How You Can Change the World Five Minute at a Time." The book will provide readers with inspiration in the form of stories about people who have taken small steps to make the world a better place – to make one child less ...
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April 21, 2008
- I've been thinking about gossip lately. I thought I'd go to Answers.com to find out what gossip means: rumor or talk of a personal, sensational, or intimate nature; a person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts; trivial, chatty talk or writing. Writing as gossip? Synonyms are: backbiting, blab, tattle, scuttlebutt, talebearer, taleteller. Another synonym is: ...
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April 14, 2008
- I'm way behind in mentioning this, but thought I would put it out there. My second book -- Wake Up to Your Weight Loss -- springs from workshops I've held in the past, with people looking to combine storytelling, healing and weight loss. It's coming out in about 3 weeks, on May 6th, and will be available from most booksellers. (If not, ask them to order it for you!)Here's the press release ...
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March 24, 2008
- "Listen to people's stories and they could all be entitled, 'Why I Cannot Be At Peace Now.'" This is a quote from the philosopher Eckhart Tolle's non-fiction book A New Earth.I was driving on the Highway 880 at 10:30 at night listening to Tolle's book on CD.I thought: this is the essential dramatic question.I also thought about how nervous I was, I was not at peace, especially with the ...
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March 10, 2008
- Yesterday I attended the San Francisco Gift Show. In the process of looking at the various booths I made a lot of new friends who shared snippets of their chance meetings with me. I hope they join us on this blog and share their amazing stories or else I will just have to tell these stores for them. As I recall, one woman met her husband in Ireland, another met her spouse in Italy, and another ...
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March 10, 2008
- Have you ever wondered what you are going to read to your daughter as a bedtime story? Have you ever wondered what you are going to read to put you in the mood for blissful slumber? Look no more because the individual stories in Chance Meetings that Tied the Knot are wonderful quick reads that put you in the mood to dream about the magic of love. A woman recently came up to me and thanked me ...
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February 29, 2008
- The January/February 2008 number of the invaluable Bloomsbury Review carries a very nice notice - written by Mark Budman, publisher and editor of the flash fiction 'zine Vestal Review, to which you should all flock and submit your flashes - about Surreal South, the anthology that Laura and I recently edited for Press53. Since Bloomsbury doesn't seem to post any of its content online (a terrible ...
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February 19, 2008
- The Big What If? Question for novel Ideas.Wednesday, Sep 19, 2007The following examples are all books that I have completed or have started:What would you think if you landed on a planet that was knee-deep in the bones of the inhabitants and you had no idea what caused the catastrophe? Afraid, you will be... (Planet Janitor--Custodian of the Stars)What if the government outlawed reading and ...
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January 16, 2008
- Over a decade ago now, the man I was to marry and I met face-to-face for the first time, in the city of Vancouver in Canada. This meeting took place after months of Internet acquaintance; we were not strangers to one another, but we were, at best, friends, and anything else was still a fledgling thing and hidden by the mists of the future. On one evening, as we walked across one of ...
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