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Dear Granny Smith - an extract

You ask me what has most changed about the job in the 30 years I’ve been here and I’ll tell you. It is time. We used to have time. Not just time for ourselves: time for other people too. We...

0 comments    gordon brown postal service
The World's Most Mysterious People signed by the authors69

Books I have been featured in

I am very proud to say that I have been written about in some depth in books by fellow authors and am included in a total of five works so far. My good friend Chris Stone aka CJ Stone has written about me...

15 comments    hubchallenge harley davidson
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The Domination - the Draka Society

The Domination from S.M. Stirling is about an Utopian/Dysutopian society called Draka Society. I haven't read this book yet but I intend to because I think it's more entertaining - this is the secret...

4 comments    entertainment education politics
Countless awards, culminating in Nobel Prize71

Women to Admire, Part 3: Toni Morrison, Nobel prize winner

Toni Morrison, my third "women to admire" segment. Only the second USA woman author to win the Nobel Prize. The first black woman, from any country, to win the Nobel Prize for writing. Elusive personality, powerful novelist. Definitely a woman to admire!

10 comments    life family women
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Ducks Don't Play Accordions

Structure is combination. Yet some things don’t combine. This was the problem facing a gathering of philosophers, sociologists, management scientists, and other vagrants as they clustered about in...

0 comments    humor philosophy satire
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The Silent Suburbs

THE SILENT SUBURBS The Australian suburb is probably one of the most ignored things about the place. In all the big cities, there they are, untold tonnages of domesticity, neurosis, and a sort of familiar...

1 comment    love life advice
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Do kids even read classics?

My sister is a librarian in Missouri and so I picked her brain on what books kids check out of her library. Her kids run up to 8th grade and so her list did not include any of the current books labeled...

17 comments    education children kids
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A career in character- change

Change Character is a fluid thing, and people do change; to a point. Sometimes change is for the better, sometimes not. Identity isn’t a simple matter of definition. Your character is...

1 comment    advice careers writing
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Reading books for fun

From the time small babies are able to sit up they should have books to look at.  Reading books is an essential and integral part of our lives.  Even when there are no words in the books it encourages and...

0 comments    home education children
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Olin Sain - Hollowed Lands II: Monster Crew

Hollowed Lands II: Monster Crew Hollowed Lands II: Monster Crew out paces the destruction to the innocent, created by any war or bio-logical contamination. Starting with Eden. Jenney Springfield doesn't...

0 comments    horror contemporary hallowenn
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