Obama Fever
The White House being manned by the first black African-American president is a triumph of the blacks and all minority groups in the world. As a professor of literature, I see the growing of literary writings of all people's races marked by a celebration of the formerly underserved, undersetimated and underprivileged. History will give details to this.With Obama at the helm, literature will be ...
More reasons why I hate health insurance...
I admit I have been ranting about this at my other blog, but I think I need to rant about it here as well. I know, I know. My health insurance saga is not a pretty one.My husband and I are both writers so we pay for our own health insurance. Because we live in NYC's unofficial 6th borough, Hoboken, we have to abide by NJ health insurance rules rather than NYC ones (even though all our doctors and ...
My Writing Spaces
In a belated response to Belle's call for photos of our writing spaces, I've created a small image gallery of mine. They appear in the reverse order that I posted them, with the result being that my captions for each photo are also in reverse order and make less sense that way! So you might want to view/read them starting with # 4 and working backward to # 1 -- or not! Who cares!?! : )The ...
Rachel Getting Married... & What Just Happened?
What a disaster! Wanting a change (of venue) following election week TV, we head for Santa Cruz' Del Mar to see RACHEL GETTING MARRIED. It's Nov. 7, Opening Night. Theater less than half full and, soon, as folks trickle out, less and less and less... reviews (those we saw) were favorable. Awful, awful! The "wedding" musicians and interludes of jazz, those brief reliefs, were superior to ...
Inaugural oath goof and right wing crazies
I’m going to spend the day listening to far right radio to hear if any hosts or callers think the Obama/Roberts inaugural oath goof is a potentially disqualifying technicality.Some casual news readers may not know it, but there was a flurry of bona fide lawsuits, a couple of which actually wound their way to the Supreme Court, that still disputed Obama’s citizenship. They said his election ...
What If I Rolled Down These Stairs....
There are some wonderful highlight things that occur in my life that are unexpected and yet pretty joyous. Being invited to Mayor Gavin Newsom's Inaugural and reception is one of them. When I got the invitation on the nice parchment paper with the RSVP I just sort of stared at it. Wow. This is nice. This is actually really super nice. I just sat there dumbfounded looking at this and ...
The Enduring Pain of The Aspiring Writer
Much in the same way a conservative hates the SUV drivers who blatantly defy the death of the world at human hands, I hate the casual writer who so easily becomes a success apparently without trying. Maybe hate is too strong a word, but there are times when its kills me. Take Stephanie Meyer for instance. I just watched a Sunday Morning segment about her and she's so young and breathless about ...
The Wedding Spectator
The wedding spectator went out of her den and decided to go to church to contemplate and later surf the net…A Saturday afternoon at the Antipolo Cathedral, usual sched of wedding ceremonies…from afar she knew she was going to be witnessing another nuptial ceremony again…she could see the color motiff which was old rose, flowing gowns of the entourage…eager other spectators acting like ...
My Son
If my heart had a pocket I'd keep you thereAnd take you with me everywhereIf Love was solid, not a word to say,I'd feed you tons every single dayIf I had wings, strong and spreading,I'd take you to the stars, with no bidding.But I only can smell you when I hold you closeAnd hear your laughs when I pinch your li'l nose.So I will take my dreams and turn them into prayersAnd worries, like all ...
The Great Unpublished Novel Mystery
Amazon.com lists for sale two copies of my novel Bluebirds of Impossible Paradise at prices hovering around $100 each. I'd happily pay that and more for a pristine bound copy. In fact, I've written so several times to the sellers listed there with no response. On the frontispiece of my own copy in manuscript form is the following book description: In the 1970's there was a brief interlude ...
