January 2010

Saturday Nine: Everybody Is a Star

January 30, 2010

1. Did you ever think that you’d be a star? If yes, doing what? I used to tell my mother that when I grew up, I was going to be “rich and famous.” And we used to joke that she was going to live to be older than Methuselah, and we were going to be roommates […]

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Rainbow in My Mirror

January 20, 2010

California has been wet, windy, and wild this week. On Monday afternoon, I was driving west on Highway 4 near the Pittsburgh BART station en route to Marin County. I looked in my rearview mirror and saw the most spectacular rainbow I had seen in years. I wanted to stop and take a photograph, but […]

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Manic Show and Tell Monday

January 18, 2010

1. About how many hours a week do you spend watching TV? I spend far fewer hours actually watching television than the television set is turned on. I listen to more television than I ever see because I have a hard time just sitting down and watching unless I am tired and need to unwind […]

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Writing My Life

January 1, 2010

Today I launched my new site, Writing My Life! Each Sunday I will post a writing prompt and encourage participants to either answer the question(s) posed in a comment, or publish a post on their own site in response to the prompt. Permalinks to individual posts can be included in a comment and each week […]

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