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“The Help” Could Use Some

Well, it’s late summer, and everyone is rushing to hate or defend “The Help”, a surprisingly inoffensive feel-good historic "dramady" that rivals “Steel Magnolias” and “Fried Green Tomatoes” as a realistic portrayal of life in the sixties south, both in … Continue reading

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The Leslie Effect

I sit in Holy Apostles and The Mediator Episcopal Church in Philadelphia where Leslie Esdaile Banks’ memorial is about to be held, the church she grew up in. When I walk in an hour early the front of the church … Continue reading

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Change of Heart

I was talking to a friend tonight about changes in my writing over the last ten years. I finally see myself as having changed from a wordsmith to a storyteller.  I used to start with how the story was told, … Continue reading

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Hunting the Snark

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” - Stephen King I recently installed a daily quote widget on my iGoogle home page. Every day three random … Continue reading

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Life and Other Things Like It

I’m writing this while I sit in a sound mix at WNET/13. My editor’s down the hall building roll-ins to drop into the Pledge breaks we spent the last week editing and getting in shape for export and delivery to … Continue reading

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Back to the Future

For the last six months I’ve been working on the third of the Vampire Testaments, PAST LIFE, which is set in 2028, twenty years in the future. In developing the world in which it takes place, I had to conjecture … Continue reading

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Magic Tricks

One day I went to get my hair cut in Los Angeles at a little place I’d found on La Cienega, across from a big newsstand. Either I was early or the barber was running late, but I ended up … Continue reading

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Haunted Hotel

Me and my little friend Tony outside the "Overlook"... I recently visited a friend in Boulder, Colorado, before she moved back to Singapore.  While I was there I rented a car from a very fun local non-profit agency called eGo, … Continue reading

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Viva Las Vegas!

I spent ten years living in Los Angeles, and somehow never managed to get to Las Vegas or Hawaii, the two biggest vacation destinations for people living in and passing through the City of the Angels.  Not once. It wasn’t … Continue reading

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Perseverence

My mother wrote short stories, children’s books, and a few articles.   I know my grandmother did the same.  There has been a writing gene on my mother’s side of the family fighting to get out for some time. I … Continue reading

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