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Kate Marshall's Blog
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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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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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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July 18, 2009
- I've always suspected that the religions of the world all boil down to the basic premise of the Golden Rule. Now I finally have proof. Well, not proof exactly. Or even close to proof. But the authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes had the discipline (or perhaps royalty advance) that I lacked to find writings supporting this notion from ...
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July 2, 2009
- I’ve been a bad Red Room author, an appallingly blogless Red Room author. There are a zillion sites on my internet Favorites bar screaming for 5 minute chunks of my time every day. My Twitter page demands updates, my new Facebook author page wants to be fleshed out, my old personal Facebook page lures me with friends’ photos and interesting links, etc., etc. The truth is that I’m not ...
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May 5, 2009
- Clever and inexpensive. That's my M.O. It's only right that the Good Morning America segment that ever-so-quickly profiled my journal this morning did so in a segment called "Clever, Inexpensive Mother's Day Gift Ideas."A tip you already know: respond to PR queries, even if you don't know who is behind the query. It could be Sally Blogger with 3 followers or it could be Tory Johnson ...
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April 19, 2009
- I'm wicked. At a party recently, I stood chatting with my brother's wife Gaye and their daughter Mary. A man who knew Mary joined us."John, this is my mom.""Nice to meet you, John. I'm Gaye." "Uh...okay." Gaye and Mary, having seen this awkward response many times before, simply moved on. I, on the other hand, wickedly savoured the moment. Poor John. He never ...
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April 16, 2009
- I came across an old friend yesterday while flipping through a poetry collection, an old friend that got me through some dark years. I had my share of angst as a teen - not sure who I was, what I was doing, or even why I was at all. When I was about sixteen I discovered this Emily Dickinson poem and latched on to its elegant answer. I copied it with blue ballpoint pen onto a scrap of ...
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April 1, 2009
- "Film maker and writer Terry Jones discovers a colony of penguins, which are unlike any other penguins in the world."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4This remains one of my favorite April Fools clips. While I do wish penguins could fly on more than just April 1 each year, I especially wish Terry Jones really would do a nature series.
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March 29, 2009
- Nobody understand our book babies the way we do, right? There are always some surprises in reviews on our books. Hopefully pleasant surprises. For example, I never would've thought of this book for elderly parents. Graduates? Absolutely. New parents? Sure. But elderly people? I hadn't pictured it before, but heck - go for it! Reviewer:www.myshelf.com Review:Picture of Me: Who I am in 221 ...
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March 23, 2009
- You should read Karen Dionne’s great 2/11/09 post, “On Buying Books.” Karen cites a provocative finding from a survey by the Department of Canadian Heritage that heavy readers buy proportionately the fewest books. [ http://tinyurl.com/ck7ov8 ]Are you surprised that the people who love to read most buy the fewest books? Maybe they couldn’t possibly support their strong addiction without ...
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March 14, 2009
- I’m a fraud. You’ll expect me to say it’s because I’m a published author who can’t write. True, but I’m talking about being a fraud online. I tweet and I put things on Facebook and now I even have a trailer on YouTube (and Red Room). But am I digitally savvy? Noooo, I am not. Not at all. And I have not initiated any of these myself. I was told to do them by modern people. ...
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March 3, 2009
- I've been having fun with this meme outside of Red Room, so thought I'd bring it here too. Feel free to answer here and/or take it to your own Facebook or email world. 10 Things About MeThis is like the 25 Things note going around, but easier.- Copy this whole thing into a new email or Facebook note.- Replace my answers with yours.- Tag or forward it to 20 people for them to answer the ...
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February 10, 2009
- Say “dog show” and most people picture the Westminster Kennel Club conformation show, where handlers in suits and sensible shoes present pure-bred, well-groomed dogs to a judge for the honor of best specimen of their breed.But say “dog trial” and many people draw a blank. Yet on any given weekend, under cover of early morning fog, mini-vans with bumper stickers like “In Dog I Trust” ...
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January 16, 2009
- Orinda Books Events - 3 p.m. Jan. 17. Author Steve Fainuru will discuss and sing copies of "Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq." - Lamorinda Sun, Friday, January 16, 2009, Vol. 74, No. 2 Yes folks, you heard it here. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Steve Fainuru has put to music the dark tale of the U.S. military's unprecedented reliance on mercenaries. ...
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