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What Is Smart?
John Elder Robison challenges our preconceived notions about intelligence.

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Body, An Elegy
The dying self in DéLana R.A. Dameron's poem resembles a slowly failing machine.

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The Life She's Chosen
"Impressive" is what The New York Times calls Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s debut story collection.

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	Patrick Erwin Chicago, IL (starting in Summer 2008) Member since: May, 2008 Last login: 09/05/2008 Last update : 05/07/2008 Contact Me
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I'm a freelance writer who came out of the writing closet a few years ago after spending much of the first part of my life listening to external voices telling me how silly it was to indulge in writing.

Now I'm doing what I love, and have started to even make some money doing so!

The drama of life
September 4, 2008
- My apologies for the long delay since my last entry.
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What daytime SHOULD steal from prime time
August 20, 2008
- One obvious trend in daytime that emerged in the late 70s and early 80s was the habit of stealing storyline ideas from prime time television.
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Audacious list (6 of 10): Bad apples redux
August 18, 2008
- As some of you may know, my new day job is in an industry that talks about how you recruit the best and brightest people, give them some boundaries and guidelines, and then let them be total rock s
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Audacious list (5 of 10): The fan who knew too much
August 7, 2008
- The continuing list of issues that negatively affect the creative process of soaps.
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Here you come again
August 7, 2008
- The news that the character of James Stenbeck is returning to ATWT gets a mixed reaction from me.
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I'm so jealous!
Lynn, that's a great story about Helen Wagner.
Brava!
This is a great post, Jennifer!
To Mark
Mark - thanks for your post here.
ATWT
That Barbara Bloom interview was bizarre. The whole "Cindy, you play Lily this week" comment was very bizarre.
OMG
After re-reading that I caught the Kate Mulgrew part - wow, I had NO idea she'd given up a baby for adoption - while being a contract player on RH, no less.