Not having is not the same as removing

This is a test post for working out the website/LJ process.. But because I have to type something: I have noticed that my daughter is inundated with Chinese things: Chinese grocery stores, Chinese TV, Jackie Chan in Chinese on DVD. Sometimes, I wonder if she would be better off if there was less. If she…

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Long Live Libraries!

If you love libraries or are in the mood for a bit of humor, check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AhSxoVmZQs&feature=email It’s delightful and funny and really made me laugh. But for some inexplicable reason, in the middle of the song at the end, I burst into tears. God bless librarians! comments

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Bad Ass Faeries Goes Live!

The Bad Ass Faeries Anthologies now have their own website! The site includes info about the series, the authors and artists, and info on submitting to the next volume: Bad Ass Faeries: It’s Elemental. It also has a blog. Our first entry is by series editor in chief Danielle Ackley-McPhail. You can read it here:…

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Ah, Bureaucrats

While skating today, I noticed that they had opened a new parking lot that will soon replace the lot where we now park to get access to the W&O (an old railroad that has been paved and turned into a bike trail.) It looked good. There are a number of logistic problems with the old…

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Wright’s Writing Corner: Guest Blot by David Marcoe

Guest blog today by writer friend David Marcoe. Enjoy! All art centers on ideas. All narrative art, where it employs story (where the character is irreversibly changed by narrative’s end, as opposed to portraiture), revolves around conflict. All conflict in story revolves around polarized values and their collision; life/death, freedom/slavery, success/failure, love/hate, family/job, et al.…

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