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A Rude Awakening
Several weeks ago, I woke up to the sound of gunshots outside my bedroom window. I jumped out of bed and peered out the window to see what was going on. Police vehicles surrounded the house next door, including one of those black SWAT vans, and police in body armor prowled the yard, converging on…
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A Conversation in Spam
My blog’s spam filter blocks all kinds of interesting comments, which are typically listed as being authored by an apparently verbal and sometimes intelligent pharmaceutical. Usually, the comments are along the unintelligible lines of, “qkweyfpewlku…@#$%!34.” But lately, I’ve had some rather coherent comments that actually started to make my spam queue sound like an […]
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LeVar Burton
Neal Conan recently interviewed the actor and former host of Reading Rainbow for Talk of the Nation on NPR. I really enjoyed their conversation, and loved what Mr. Burton had to say about the role of reading in the lives of children, and the mission of the show. This quote summed it up nicely: “Sesame…
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Writing for Charity
A little while ago, I posted about the Writing for Charity Event at the Treehouse Children’s Museum in Ogden, Utah. I was invited to take part in the workshop as a debut author, and I think I was the “newest” writer at the event. It also happened to be my first time participating in something…