The In-betweens-The Challenge of Moving from One Writing Project to Another
Has this ever happened to you? You complete one assignment: Poem, story, article, chapter and now you find yourself at a loss of what to do next? There is guilt, panic and fear you have nothing else to complete and at the same time you are waiting to hear back from the magazine, publisher or agent?
read moreSame-Sex Relationships, Marriage, and Family-San Francisco Values
Sexuality is an issue that touches every person alive. Our conception is a sexual act, and most societies have rules or norms that set boundaries on sexual behavior. Incest is a common taboo. Human bodies mature to enable sexual relations, and our hormones drive the desire for sexuality — more or less strongly — in most all of us.
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Our Old House – A Happy Remodeler
When life is good, I care about my home. I know this because I’ve experienced a time when life was not going well and I didn’t care about my surroundings. I was looking inward, not outward.
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The Family I Never Knew
All my life I was told by Grandma Regina that she lost her entire family in the Holocaust. Grandma, my mother’s mother, was from Warsaw. She escaped the slaughter by coming to the United States at the turn of the century. Before the Holocaust, in Poland, Jews were the...
read moreHow I Got Amazon to Remove a Negative Review About My Book!
Here is the exception that I found useful and why I was successful in getting a very negative review of my book taken down:
The review was personal. It was vicious, and full of distortions and slanderous comments. This was not a book review. Rather, it was a personal attack on me.
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The Task of Updating My Internet Research Presentation
My Internet research presentation was born in 2009 shortly after my book came out. It was related as Taking Aim was created out of intensive research for people and events 30 years earlier. It is not historical fiction as there is nothing fictional about it. It could...
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