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NaNoWriMo Notes #28: Accomplishment
But I won't really have a feeling of accomplishment ... until it is published by someone other than me.
Read More »Book Review: 100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World by John Tirman
Tirman's book may serve best as an introduction to America's path to its problems on the global stage.
Read More »Book Review: Regeneration – Species Imperative #3 by Julie Czerneda
You may want to pause in your reading to get your heart started again, or to remember how to breathe, but that's about it.
Read More »Book Review: Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure by Joanna Frueh
A highly personal but intellectually sophisticated account from a 50-year-old woman that might be read as a manifesto for sex-positive, even body-positive, feminism.
Read More »Book Review: Migration: Species Imperative Book Two Julie Czerneda
Read these books for the story and the adventure and...for gaining an understanding of human behaviour and making a new friend
Read More »Theater Review: Anaïs Nin: One of her Lives
It is a rare artist whose life truly becomes her art.
Read More »Book Review: The Beatles, The Bible, And Bodega Bay: My Long And Winding Road By Ken Mansfield
How ultimate Beatles insider Ken Mansfield made peace with his past and with his God.
Read More »NaNoWriMo Notes 27: Pride, Price, and Profit
You end up charging more then most people are prepared to pay.
Read More »Book Review: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
An interesting, but ultimately dissatisfying, look at a near future of almost completely digitally-connected humans that offers both promise and dread.
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