Rochelle Jewel Shapiro's Blog

• Blog Entry from a novice

  September 16, 2009

  • Forgiveness is the first step towards ulcers.         Rochelle Jewel Shapiro, author of Miriam the Medium (Simon & Schuster.)
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• Psychic Blog

  June 19, 2008

  • Check out my psychic blog on the Huffington Post in the Living Section: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rochelle-jewel-shapiro/youll-never-guess-or-will_b_107981.html
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• WIN A FREE, SIGNED COPY OF MIRIAM THE MEDIUM (Simon & Schuster)

  May 4, 2008

  • Win a FREE SIGNED copy of my autogiographical novel, MIRIAM THE MEDIUM (Simon & Schuster), a hilarious and heartbreaking saga of three generations of women in conflict and a  genuine look into the mind of a psychic. how visions arise. For details, go to my blog on:http://rochellejewelshapiro.blogspot.com/
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• Queens College, My first lesson

  April 23, 2008

  • In the days before computers, how the heck did anyone write a footnoted research paper? That's what I wanted to know in my freshman year at Queens College. A guy friend of mine was going out with a secretary. She'd know, I figured. I paid her to type the paper. She kept putting it off and putting it off. When she finally gave it to me, the day before it was due, I found out that she not only ...
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• Queens College, My first lesson

  April 23, 2008

  • In the days before computers, how the heck did anyone write a footnoted research paper? That's what I wanted to know in my freshman year at Queens College. A guy friend of mine was going out with a secretary. She'd know, I figured. I paid her to type the paper. She kept putting it off and putting it off. When she finally gave it to me, the day before it was due, I found out that she not only ...
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• Queens College, My first lesson

  April 23, 2008

  • In the days before computers, how the heck did anyone write a footnoted research paper? That's what I wanted to know in my freshman year at Queens College. A guy friend of mine was going out with a secretary. She'd know, I figured. I paid her to type the paper. She kept putting it off and putting it off. When she finally gave it to me, the day before it was due, I found out that she not only ...
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• Registration is now for my WRITING THE PERSONAL ESSAY class at UCLA online

  April 10, 2008

  • From the New York Time's Modern Love essays to Newsweek’s My Turn, to best selling anthologies in every bookstore in the country, personal essays have captured everyone's attention. In this class you'll learn how to turn your thoughts, feelings and experiences into real, funny, and deeply moving art. Memoir can take years to finish. This is a quick form. You will learn how to use literary tools ...
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• Join me at The Telephone bar for a reading from "Have I Got A Guy For You," Adams Literary Group

  March 13, 2008

  • I'll be reading here from "Have I Got a Wonderful Guy for You," a hilarious anthology about blind dates your mother fixed up on. I've heard the Telephone Bar is a great place. My essay, "You'll Have A Wonderful Life With Him" is a real hoot and many of the other readers are stand-up comics. Monday: April 21stTelephone Bar & Grill >149 Second Ave (Bet. 9th & ...
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• Obama, Kennedy, and my Sweet Sixteen

  February 12, 2008

  • When the announcement came over the loud speaker in Far Rockaway High School, we students all stopped writing notes to each other, stopped teasing up our hair, stopped chewing bubble gum, and listened hard. "President Kennedy was shot." It couldn't be. My president, the first and only one I had loved in my sixteen years. "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can ...
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• Support for a terrific writer, Patry Francis, author of the Liar's Diary

  January 29, 2008

  • Today is the pub date of the paperback of Patry Francis' acclaimed The Liar's Diary. But Patry won't be able to get out and promote it because she is valiantly dealing with a virulent form of cancer. The doctors have great hope and so do all of us. For right now, we all hope that you will buy a copy of the paperback in order to support Patty in her recovery and continued success as a ...
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• Barbra Streisand and Me

  January 17, 2008

  • My two links to Barbra Streisand are that we both have the same vivid blue eyes and her Uncle, Sydney Streisand, used to fix my parents' rabbit-eared TV when we lived in Far Rockaway, Queens. Recently, I read Ann Edward's 1999 biography, STREISAND (Little Brown & Co..) and was reminded of Sydney sitting in our dining room over a cup of coffee and telling her that nobody knew what to do with ...
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• The Daily Life of a Psychic

  January 3, 2008

  • Everyone who knows me knows that I have no sense of direction. Take me a few blocks from my home, spin me around, and I'll have to ask directions to get back. How I compensate is by having written directions with me that I reverse beforehand for the trip home. Well, the directions I was clutching in my hand this Sunday when I tried to take a subway to Park Slope, I made an error that I couldn't ...
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