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March 17, 2008 12:28 PM EDT
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Three things spring to mind. First, having read "The Glory of Their Times" about a zillion times, I had absorbed the idea that baseball players of the era were pretty crude sorts, unwelcome . . .
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March 17, 2008 02:01 PM EDT
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Thanks to everyone who responded on the Get a Free Book and Test Your "Memory" . It's great to see so many avid readers on Gather who would love to review the book! Unfortunately, only . . .
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March 17, 2008 02:51 PM EDT
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A while back, I started putting together a list of college and university summery reading titles as I came across them (many colleges are asking their incoming freshmen to read the same book over the summer . . .
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March 17, 2008 01:45 PM EDT
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Last night (Feb. 16, 2008) I found myself watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition. On it a family comprised of a biker/preacher, a stay at home mom, a twenty year old mother, and that twenty year old's . . .
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March 17, 2008 04:37 PM EDT
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All little girls love pink.
Right?
Wrong.
Despite the rosy-tinted title and cover of my latest book, I must confess that loving the color pink came relatively late to me. It took an unusually, . . .
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March 17, 2008 04:43 PM EDT
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For some reason-- granted strange and unknowable—I often latch onto some sort of symbol, talisman, or metaphor for my novel. For my first novel, Mail , it was anything postal: envelopes, . . .
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March 17, 2008 04:48 PM EDT
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Some people have told me that they like my character, Liberty Lane, but doubt whether a young woman would have so much freedom to travel and make her own decisions in the nineteenth century. Although . . .
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March 17, 2008 05:16 PM EDT
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Want to become a book reviewer? Bright Ideas by Bestselling Authors is offering free copies of upcoming books to members interested in writing book reviews!
Request a copy by sending a message . . .
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March 17, 2008 05:33 PM EDT
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It was reported today that a female suicide bomber killed 39 people in a Shiite neighborhood. This got me wondering, since I don't know much about the muslim faith, but have heard the reports . . .
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March 17, 2008 05:46 PM EDT
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Daphne Urban was just a regular girl living a regular life... That is if you think a five-hundred year old vampire living off a lifetime of aquired wealth normal... Then one day when going to "renew" . . .
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March 17, 2008 06:14 PM EDT
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As slow as the other book was, this one is as fast. I was glad to get it now as it is the story of Queen Esther - and Purim, the Jewish holiday in her honor - is from the 20th to the 23rd of this month! . . .
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March 17, 2008 09:10 PM EDT
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Check this out...
http://www.bzzagent.com//p/4896356844/tabithamason
Here's the concept, copied from the website, Book Crossing.
"If you love it, set it free — if it's . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:54 AM EDT
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solipsism ( sol -uhp-siz-uhm)
n. Philosophy.
1. The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
2. The belief that all reality is just one's own imagining . . .
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March 18, 2008 01:17 PM EDT
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Have you ever been in need of help and someone perfectly able to help you is just standing there? The only reason they aren't helping is because they lack will power? This is a topic we discussed in . . .
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March 18, 2008 01:28 PM EDT
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I wait until my stepmom leaves
And then I sneak into a pantry with ease.
The bottle sits there glass and clear
A wrapper blue is called me there
Opened up with the twist of a cap.
So simple. . . .
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March 18, 2008 01:33 PM EDT
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" Boo."
That's what he said to me. That's all he said. And he walked away, well I can't say he walked, more he glided, after all ghosts can't walk. They'd fall right . . .
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March 18, 2008 02:54 PM EDT
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Barack Obama gave a speech in Philadelphia today that was well crafted and to the point, addressing the issue of race in America and what his vision is on that divisive and important issue.
Was it . . .
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March 18, 2008 03:59 PM EDT
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Being anything
Other than I Am in Truth
Is not possible.
© 2008 RFHay
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March 18, 2008 05:30 PM EDT
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[Rich Note: Since I used one of the verses from "Life Is Like" as the caption for today's hay-ku, I thought I'd post the entire poem on the blog, as well. Worth noting, I suppose, is . . .
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March 18, 2008 08:02 PM EDT
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Looking for Love In all the Wrong Places
By
Theresa Chaze
As a Tarot Reader, I have had many of my clients ask how they can find love. They want to find their soul mate. Everyone is looking for . . .
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