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What Does the Average Bear Really Get About Addiction?

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

May Whitney Houston’s death not be in vain.  I could not believe that her close friend, who watched her set herself up for an OD at a pre-Grammy party, said she was “fine” when she was drinking. More baffling and … Continue reading →

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A few words on a lonely battle: self-advocacy under the ADA….

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

You have got to be kidding me. ….WTF is up with health care providers who in 2012, many years after the passage of the ADA, and given the fact that there are many civil rights information sites and blogs out … Continue reading →

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Recent Poem

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

I Am Speaking of This Here, hands full of sand, letting it sift through in the wind, I look in and say take this, this is what I have saved, take this, hurry. And if I listen now? Listen, I … Continue reading →

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A Review of 2011 Swenson Award Winner Travis Mossotti’s About the Dead

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

We never know how and when a superb literary voice is born, much less what makes it happen. But happen once more it has with the young poet Travis Mossotti’s first published collection of poetry About the Dead, winner of … Continue reading →

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Ablow videos in Anthony case worth a look….

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

just watched a few videos of Dr. Keith Ablow, a forensic psychiatrist who seems quite intelligent and wrote a book on the Scott Peterson case, twenty years’ experience with “murderers,” weigh in on Fox on Casey Anthony–these are of interviews … Continue reading →

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At a Rolling Boil…

Posted on August 22, 2011 by

My blood is boiling.  It’s midnight in Colorado and I am completely baffled by and fed up with the white trash on Facebook. There:  I said it.  And I don’t like saying it. I’m a Civil Rights advocate and unfortunately, … Continue reading →

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Cheuse Novel Brave and Lyrical

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

As caught up as so many of us are in the quotidian, a historical novel seems hardly relevant. Yet, NPR All Things Considered book critic Alan Cheuse has managed to write an epic that is exquisitely appropos; in his newly … Continue reading →

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Always Loquacious, Always Interesting…

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

Welcome!  You can read all about me  here. Scroll down for current post.  Please check out my creative work freely offered to the literate public on line at La Parola Vivace,  A Tu Placer (literary erotica) and my highly praised memoir Nightfall in … Continue reading →

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Everyone– nearly– Lied in Anthony Case

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

Please check out my creative work freely offered to the literate public on line at La Parola Vivace, A Tu Placer (literary erotica) and my highly praised memoir Nightfall in Verona– all twenty-two chapters.  Check back here for book reviews … Continue reading →

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Summer Update…

Posted on July 2, 2011 by

You just gotta say wow and wow.  There is so much going on. First of all, there’s a book explosion.  So many many books– collections of poems, novels, memoirs.  There’s word the book industry as in real published books is … Continue reading →

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