Ezine Expert Articles

Book Review: The Perfect Family

August 2, 2010

What do you do when the life you have so carefully constructed begins to fall apart? How do you react when you learn that the future you envisioned for yourself and your loved ones is not going to materialize? How do you respond when your children’s expectations for their lives are not in alignment with […]

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Book Review: Good-Bye to All That

July 26, 2010

Do you ever see celebrities on the red carpet at premieres and other events, and wonder about the people who work behind the scenes to create those photo opportunities? Do you ever consider the advertisements you see for movies and television shows: Who conceptualizes them? Who executes the creative ideas? Why do the marketing campaigns […]

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Book Review: Fly Away Home

July 12, 2010

We have all watched them on newscasts, after which their wardrobe choices, hair, makeup, and every movement — how many times did the camera catch a grimace or flinch of discomfort or revulsion? — have been dissected by the various commentators and their guest body language experts. We have wondered how they could bear to […]

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Book Review: Seven Year Switch

July 6, 2010

Summer arrived in Northern California uncharacteristically late this year. Normally, the temperature soars past 100 degrees by Memorial Day, and by the time we “ooh” and “aah” over the Fourth of July fireworks display, we have enjoyed a number of days lounging on the beach or by the pool, leisurely reading an engrossing novel … […]

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Book Review: Scars and Stilettos

June 23, 2010

Trapped. Without options. Lacking self-empowerment. Enslaved by addiction. Have you ever found yourself in those or similar circumstances? Many people have, at one time in their lives or another, in varying degrees. Harmony Dust did. What makes Harmony’s story fascinating is how she came to recognize the situations and people in her life who were […]

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Book Review: Between Husbands and Friends

June 20, 2010

Having never heard of Nancy Thayer or read any of her books, I was excited by the opportunity to read and review her upcoming novel, Beachcombers. However, before I received my advance review copy of that book, I decided to read some of her older work, beginning with Between Husbands and Friends, originally published in 1999. […]

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Book Review: Think for Yourself

June 2, 2010

David Charles, a first-time author, describes Think for Yourself: The Importance of Maintaining Individuality and Freedom of Thought as a “personalized look into today’s growing global society” and succinct discussion of “the necessity of maintaining clear and enlightened thinking on a variety of key subject matter.” His thesis is straight-forward: The “information age” provides myriad […]

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Book Review: The Season of Second Chances

May 23, 2010

When my boys were younger, they referred to it as a “do-over” — an opportunity to give something another try with the hope of achieving a better outcome. I usually heard the term during an argument about a game they were playing together. One of them — or one of their friends — would be […]

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Book Review: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

May 15, 2010

I cannot remember where I was or what I was doing when I first heard about Wicked, Gregory Maguire’s best-known novel. But I vividly recall my reaction: I realized that I, like most children, had always just accepted the characters in The Wizard of Oz as they were. By that moment, I’m sure I had […]

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Book Review: Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go

May 7, 2010

Lucille O’Neal is a few years older than me, but we are contemporaries — Baby Boomers who grew up during the turbulent 1960’s, she on the East Coast, while I am, for all intents and purposes, a native Californian. (My parents moved from South Dakota to Lodi when I was just six months old.) Like […]

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Book Review: Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas

May 5, 2010

Sometimes it’s fun to just spend the day reading. So I did that recently on a perfect spring day. There was a light breeze, it was about 75 degrees outside, and I opened up all of the doors and windows to give the house a good, old-fashioned spring airing-out. I made a pot of coffee, […]

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Book Review: Keeping Faith

May 1, 2010

I did not want to close the book and put it back into my bag. But I had no choice: The plane was landing at JFK and, along with my two sons, I was about to embark on a five-day adventure in New York City — that included a performance at Carnegie Hall — for […]

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Book Review: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

April 24, 2010

Secrets. We all have our own or keep others’ — in varying degrees of significance. Secrets impact relationships through the omission of truth or outright lies. Sometimes they enhance relationships. Sometimes they destroy not just relationships, but entire lives. Author Kim Edwards describes the books’ premise this way: “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter opens with a […]

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Book Review: Nineteen Minutes

April 9, 2010

Reading has been one of my greatest pleasures from the time I begged my mother to read Green Eggs and Ham to me repeatedly. Like most folks, my reading habits have not always been consistent, due to time constraints. In recent years, in addition to the fact that none of my days ever seem to […]

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Why “If I Did It” Should Never Have Been Written

September 23, 2007

As a civil rights attorney, I counsel folks who have been subjected to injustice about their rights and the remedies the legal system can provide them. Frequently, they have suffered emotional distress and associated physical symptoms and maladies as a result of the conduct to which they have been subjected. I caution them not to […]

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September 16, 2007

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Consider this observation by Tim Rutten, writing in yesterday’s LA Times: O.J. Simpson’s trial and acquittal on charges that he murdered his ex-wife and Goldman have spawned a small library of books… This week brought perhaps the strangest of all the additions to the Simpson library — an odd and repellent book called “If I Did […]

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Buy Your Own Coffee

August 12, 2007

Based upon my observations and experiences, I would say that there are three basic types of bloggers: The Professionals These folks claim to earn their daily bread solely via blogging and expend a lot of effort studying and writing about “SEO,” niches, marketing research, analytics and all sorts of other concepts I neither understand nor […]

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