Here is a picture of me from Christmas 1974. My sister, Andrea, gave it to me last week. We’re planning her 40th birthday and Ted and I are in charge of the invitations. She wanted us to put a picture of her –from when she was a cute, button-nosed little kid–on the invite.
But I thought [...]

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Another star from the Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical has left us.
Cyd Charisse died today in Los Angeles at age 86.
Read her obit here in the New York Times.
And see her paired marvelously with Fred Astaire in The Bandwagon.

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I promise more blog posts this weekend. Just trying to dig my way out of a pit of papers and other work.
In the meantime, isn’t this awesome? I don’t know how I found it; I was surfing the net, reading travel blogs (obviously not doing the work I was supposed to be doing) and somehow [...]

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This was a very productive weekend, for the most part.
I did a ton of grading (finally caught up after the literary event at the college had set me back), took care of
my three rapidly growing tomatoes (yes, we have 3 now!), did a little note-taking and fleshing out of a character for my novel, and [...]

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Write now (ha ha, I made a literary joke!) i’m totally into my New Yorkers.
Especially at the gym, which i’ve mentioned before. The elliptical… you know what I mean.
This last week I read the article A Dip in the Cold, by Lynne Cox, about her latest long distance swim through the Northwest Passage near Greenland. [...]

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O. M. G.
I totally forgot it was Hermia’s Birthday today.
Two days of celebrations!She was born on April 15, 1991– which makes her 17 years old. But, according
to this website , she’s really 78 years old (in the human equivalent).
Here’s their chart:

Here’s a look at Hermia through the years:
1. (first picture) she’s just about [...]

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“I noticed the bushy sand-colored mustache that curled at his lips’ corners.” –from the novel, Mysterious Skin, by Scott Heim.
I decided it was time for a change, so I shaved off part of my Morgan Spurlock–
Or my Morgan Spurlock-inspired goatee thingy.
I’ve had it since about 2005, I think.
Here’s a pic of the [...]

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*contrary to popular belief, this is not what Sally Field said when she won the Academy Award in 1985 (her second) for “Places in the Heart.” She actually said: “…I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
In any case, somebody out there likes me. Or, likes my writing project. [...]

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The Photobooth Reading was awesome. Such a blast. Thanks to everyone who showed up, and special thanks to those who
sent in photostrips (they all flashed on the screen before and after the reading) . I’ll blog more about it later, but here’s a photostrip of me and Ted and our friend Jen from last night.
Confidential: [...]

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  I’m reading two short pieces, and then a longer piece about my mother.
It should be a blast– i’m very excited– we’ve got a DJ, a movie screen showing hundreds of photobooth strips, and an actual photobooth set up (courtesy of Photoboof) so that those in the crowd can take their own photobooth strips.
Hope to [...]

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