Ann Seymour's Blog
November 2, 2009
August 24, 2009
- OK, I'm not drawn to needy man-children who have just taken an emotional beating from true-loves and certainly can't turn to their dysfuncational families for help. I prefer boys with the courage of adults, like Edgar Sawtelle, to vice-versa. And Woody Allen's so mastered dysfuncational families, where to you go from there? To Jonathan Tropper, the poet of the pained male - that's where. He's so ...
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July 30, 2009
- December 7, 1941, Cayucos, Central California I didn’t understand. I was only four. Unaware that my life was reversing, like the tide before me, I played on the beach. The sun brightened the cloudless sky, turning it a silvered winter blue, perfect for Sunday, Daddy’s day off. As he and Mom raced to the sea, the foam slapped against the shore. One strap of her bathing suit slipped. In ...
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July 11, 2009
- Everyone who has read "Tears in the Darkness" by Michael Norman calls it the best of the best, and I agree. Here is what I know about the events that led to the horriffic Bataan Death March. On Pearl Harbor day, church bells pealed from cupolas in Manila, the sounds cresting, suspended, and six-inch long monkeys went swinging from lily to lily as if the flowers were trees. In ...
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July 6, 2009
- Open letter to Sue Cobb, author of THE EDGE OF EVEREST, (Stackpole Books, 1989)Am breathless, though @ sea level. Your book absolutely stunned me. In your straightforward way, you brought me right to your side on the mountain and let me peek into your soul. Often I would reread a paragraph, page, scene, and I rarely do that. Even though I knew you were alive, I found the descent excruciating, ...
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Writing: Articles & Stories
Reviews I've Written
- July 31, 2009
This powerful book could be written about alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, and any number of other addicts. - June 15, 2009
I fell in love with Amy (anyone remember the song, "Once in Love with Amy"?) after reading THE JOY LUCK CLUB, and my affection deepened after meeting her at Oakley and Barbara Hall's incomparable par
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