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Sep.07.2011
"No!" I said when my husband proposed that we move to San Francisco.
Both of my children had been born in Brooklyn. I loved New York, and like most New Yorkers thought that no other city could match my own.
It took a lot of persuasion on his part, some fierce resistance on mine, but finally, in...
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May.06.2011
Down through the ages, people have told stories for free. I doubt if anybody paid the stone age artists fpr hacking their stories on stone, or if anybody paid Homer for telling his stories.
Shakespeare made some money—certainly not enough, and Keats' beautiful poems never helped him seek adequate...
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Jul.16.2010
A very special man who overcame his disability was our 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Paralyzed from the waist down from Polio, he was able to deal with depression and pain, and go on to be one of the greatest presidents we ever had. Luckily, he had an amazing wife who encouraged him...
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Aug.10.2009
Perhaps the first question for a beginning writer should be what kind of book are you writing, and how do you want it to look?
A long article in the August 3rd New Yorker discusses "kindle" books , which are hand held devices that contain hundreds of books that the reader can call up...
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About Marilyn
I was born in the Bronx, New York City. The street I lived on had no trees or flowers, but it had children – lots and lots of children. The street didn’t go anywhere important, and cars seldom came through. In the summertime, it was frequently closed to...