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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: October 2010
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Tuesday, October 19, 2010. I'm taking off tomorrow for Chicago, to read at Columbia College's Creative Nonfiction Week celebration. One of my essays, "Blood," was excerpted in the current issue of. South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction Art. I'll try to post from the road, but meanwhile, I'd like to get some thoughts on the following article from NYT:. Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children. What do you think, especially you parents? Tuesday, October 5, 2010.
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: Congratulations, it's a blog!
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Congratulations, it's a blog! Oh, who am I kidding? I can call it “personal essay” rather than “memoir” until the stars fall from the sky. It’s still self-involved. Even though I may only use anecdotes from my life as a way to make the larger point, at the end of the day, I’m still saying “I” a lot. So is this a mommy-blog? September 29, 2010 at 9:55 AM. Im terrible at handball. September 29, 2010 at 10:27 AM. September 29, 2010 at 12:37 PM.
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: December 2010
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Wednesday, December 8, 2010. I was the Walrus, but now I'm John. Thirty years ago today, John Lennon was murdered by a deranged fan. Deranged fan" is how everyone in the media- without exception- describes his killer. And I find that increasingly strange. Deranged fan" is too easy, too pat. Was Mark David Chapman a fan? Certainly. Was he deranged? They want to send him to hell. I think he's already there. I don't know how I feel about that. John strenuously opposed the ...
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: Practical magic.
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. The Writer's Life is Best When It's Boring. From Tayari Jones by way of SheWrites. I think Tayari and I must have similar writing styles (by which I mean the act of writing, not necessarily our work), because a lot of this resonated with me. I'm not good at the whole starving-artist-miserable-alcoholic method of creating. I need to feel secure, well rested, and relaxed. So a question for the readers who are also writers: What's. Ken, Im the sam...
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: Life Lessons from Klickitat Street, Part One
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Life Lessons from Klickitat Street, Part One. I took Pink and Purple to see Ramona and Beezus. At our local discount theater over the weekend. I didn’t expect to spend most of the movie in tears. Was a little bit different, though. Setting aside the fact that [SPOILER] Ramona finds the cat dead of old age in his basket [/SPOILER], which was rough for all of us, I found that the movie brought up a host of complicated feelings for me. Nice tur...
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: Here and gone.
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Tuesday, October 19, 2010. I'm taking off tomorrow for Chicago, to read at Columbia College's Creative Nonfiction Week celebration. One of my essays, "Blood," was excerpted in the current issue of. South Loop Review: Creative Nonfiction Art. I'll try to post from the road, but meanwhile, I'd like to get some thoughts on the following article from NYT:. Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children. What do you think, especially you parents? October 19, 2010 at 6:29 PM.
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: I was the Walrus, but now I'm John.
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Wednesday, December 8, 2010. I was the Walrus, but now I'm John. Thirty years ago today, John Lennon was murdered by a deranged fan. Deranged fan" is how everyone in the media- without exception- describes his killer. And I find that increasingly strange. Deranged fan" is too easy, too pat. Was Mark David Chapman a fan? Certainly. Was he deranged? They want to send him to hell. I think he's already there. I don't know how I feel about that. John strenuously opposed the ...
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: Not exactly news, but...
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Not exactly news, but. As it turns out, nit-picking is much more pleasurable when you do it figuratively rather than literally. The girls came home last week with head lice. This capped off a month in which we passed a strep infection back and forth, my freelance gig petered out, and we drove to Chicago twice. (Okay, the last was not a hardship other than in terms of time and fossil fuels.). Single Mothers by Choice. Eileen has been a life-s...
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls: September 2010
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The Helter-Skelter Home for Girls. Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Congratulations, it's a blog! Oh, who am I kidding? I can call it “personal essay” rather than “memoir” until the stars fall from the sky. It’s still self-involved. Even though I may only use anecdotes from my life as a way to make the larger point, at the end of the day, I’m still saying “I” a lot. So is this a mommy-blog? Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Can someone explain why this is? Women still make $0.81 to men's $1.00. Was a little bit...
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