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Aug.10.2012
As you can probably tell from my last blog entry, a thinly disguised piece of flash fiction where the main character should have been named Robin, not Jenna, I've been very depressed about empty nest syndrome and middle-age lately, even though my kids pretty much moved out four years ago....
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Aug.06.2012
Jenna stumbles on the journal of a complete stranger. As a writer and long time diarist herself, she cannot resist reading.
“April 20, 2009. I hate my life and my parents. If I have to spend my twenties living in this house with them, I will slash my wrists. My mother...
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Aug.16.2010
I posted this in comments the other day but perhaps I should have made it a regular blog because I think it's important. I've returned to this site in an attempt to give it a second chance, but there are some problems which I feel need to be addressed and quite frankly, I'm ready to leave again. ...
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Aug.14.2010
And now for something completely different, I posted a video here today which has a sort of backstage story about Dweezil Zappa so that makes it sort of a post about writing.
Here's the link: http://www.redroom.com/video/city-tiny-lights
Sometimes my links here actually link, sometimes they don't...
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Aug.13.2010
Let me preface this by saying my entry is not a post about Friday the 13th. I'm not superstitious though of course now that I've written that, all kinds of disasters are going to befall me today. But not as bad as this guy:
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/body-of-missing-french-chef-found-s...
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Aug.07.2010
A couple of years ago I landed in an East German youth hostel where I was actually dumb enough to think that people all over the world spoke English as a second language. Let me also add that in addition to not being a youth and someone more accustomed to hotels which offered fluffy robes and...
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Jul.28.2010
My father was a prodigy who left school at age seventeen to go on the road with a big band. At the pinnacle of his career, which occurred when he was twenty years old, he landed a gig as a trombonist in the Buddy Rich Band until, as I would learn years later, he got fired for being too fucked up...
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Jul.20.2010
Hi there:
So I've started a new feature over at my "regular" blog called Celebrity Book Club in which I invite published authors, musicians, etc. to discuss books which I feel are, well, pretty amazing. My first edition kicks off with Tish Cohen's "The Truth About Delilah Blue...
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Jan.29.2008
Hi there:
I normally maintain my blog right here: www.inherownwrite.blogspot.com
I wanted to cut and paste my tribute to author Patry Francis here, but it had so much HTML code and so many photos it was too complicated for a non-techie like me so I ask that you visit my above mentioned blog today...
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About Robin
Robin Slick is a raging liberal living in downtown Philadelphia who wishes she could jump in a time machine and travel to London where she'd party with the Beatles, Eric Clapton, and all of their pals in the late sixties. She is the writer of several...
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