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Writer Wednesday: 2011 Banned Books Week and full disclosure about my adolescence
September 24th through October 1st is Banned Books Week. Over the years, many books and writers have been banned or challenged — for political reasons or just some vague feeling of “needing to protect the children”. Until this year, I’d never sought to read a banned book. Then I decided I’d try and find one,…
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Website Changed! (Again!)
So, I changed the site to make it more about me as a writer. All my acting stuff has moved to my burlesque blog, excepting the headshot/portfolio photos gallery. It will be moved over there, but I need more time and energy to devote to it than I have at the moment. From now on…
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The Melancholy of Memory
My partner and I made an apple crisp on the weekend. A simple recipe — sliced apples in a glass pan with a flour-brown sugar-cinnamon-butter combination put on top. Bake until browned. Basically. (Except we used margarine because we’re lactose-intolerant, and try to avoid dairy where we can so we can still have ice cream…
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Writer Wednesday: The Writer’s Diet
First, please note that when I say “diet” I do not mean “calorie counting fascism designed to make you feel terrible about yourself and trigger all your eating disorders”. I mean, quite specifically, all the food that one ingests — one’s diet. Next, I do not speak for all writers here. I am only talking…
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I am a terrorist.
Or I would be, if I had ever had an abortion. Perhaps that’s not what Matt Emerson meant when he compared a woman’s right to choose to the events of 9/11, 2001, but that’s certainly how it read (and remember kiddies, intent is not magic). Emerson is talking specifically about abortions that remove one twin,…