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What happens after publication?

I feel more than ever that one must just do good work, follow the bread crumbs, and enjoy the journey.

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The Secret of Life

Georgie floats like a cork on life. She says, “I don’t remember any of those things. I just get up every morning and say my prayers to thank God that I am here. I take one day at a time. I don’t worry.” That’s as deep as it gets.
Maybe Georgie knows the secret of life. If so, I am not going to survive to 102.

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The indispensable writing group

Writing groups are not only desirable; they are indispensable.

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REVIEW: Redeployment

Put together The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes, The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, 365 Days by Karl Glasser, and Redeployment and you have all the reasons you will ever need to be a pacifist, or a reluctant warrior at the very least.

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Review: EAT PRAY LOVE

Gilbert knows that just recounting her adventures is not enough; she must put her personal experience into a context which will include the reader, and there she hits a home run.

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Stay-at-home writers

It makes a person want to go inside and lock the door and just write.

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An outtake

Funny how we thrive on our assumptions.

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Women have only just begun

I wish I could be here 50 years from today, when no generation will remember the Old Days, when we will have transformed our societies to deal more wisely with the energy that was unleashed when we set our women free.

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A Reflection on Love and Dance

The details, though, are not only in the unique pairings, the flights of the imagination. They are also like the dancer’s bleeding feet, the constant effort in the face of fatigue or boredom, the fantasy gone sour.

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