Thursday, December 29, 2005
"I believe that every person is born with talent."
MAYA ANGELOU In 1993 she became the first African-American and the first woman to read her poetry at a Presidential Inauguration - that of President Clinton. She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, has written television and film scripts and marked her seventieth birthday (in 1998)...
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Saturday, December 24, 2005
BLESSED ARE THE CRACKED
I don’t normally blog amusing emails that make the rounds along with the circulating "glurg". But I was struck with the profound and disturbing commentary that this one makes underneath its humor. So, just in case you haven’t received it in your email box, here it is. * * * * * BLESSED ARE THE...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
I HEAR THE BELLS
I HEAR THE BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the most popular American poet of the 19th century. When Longfellow penned the words to this poem, America was in the midst of the Civil War; and his poem reflected the prior years of the war's despair. He had also received word that his soldier son,...
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Friday, December 16, 2005
INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE
ANNE RICE INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE CHRIST THE LORD-OUT OF EGYPT Anne Rice, a devout Christian, recently returned to her childhood Catholic faith. Her latest novel, Christ the Lord – Out of Egypt, published November 2005, is a byproduct of a wealth of research regarding Christ and his times. "I feel...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
STORY TELLERS 'R' US
STORY TELLERS We are all storytellers and we congregate here to tell our stories to each other. We listen. Stories are how we explain, how we teach, how we entertain ourselves, and how we often do all three at once. They are the juncture where facts and feelings meet. And for those reasons, they are...
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Friday, December 9, 2005
THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW AGAINST CLICHES’
THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW AGAINST CLICHES’ I’ve had it up to here with cliches, so there’s no time like the present to lay it on the line and to say it like it is. Give it a rest! Cliches are long in the too th, are over the hill. They should all be deep sixed and you can say that aga in. When I see...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2005
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) a famous American playwright, and memoirist was a controversial author during the McCarthy era and a colorful woman in her private life. She had a lifelong relationship with the mystery writer Dashell Hammitt and, like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Hammitt, Lillian...
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Saturday, December 3, 2005
Nora Roberts
NORA ROBERTS, mega bestselling ‘category romance’ author has written over 150 books, in addition to novels written under the pen name J. D. Robb. ● There are more than 280 million copies of Nora Roberts books in print. ● Over the last 23 years, an average of 23 Nora Roberts books were sold every...
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Thursday, December 1, 2005
"You can lead a horticulture, but you cannot make her think."
DOROTHY PARKER "You can lead a horticulture, but you cannot make her think." This was Dorothy Parker’s response when challenged to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence. Known for her acid wit, Dorothy Parker’s poetry and comments are famous and continually quoted. Besides writing poetry and...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Toni Morrison Morrison is a literary giant of the 1980s and 1990s "I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it."... and all the more famous for being both a woman and an African-American. Her book Beloved won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature....
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