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Writing

On writing

I know I said this once before, but it’s worth repeating:   Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be writers.   Once you step over the line from being a writer who lives to write to being a writer who writes to live, you’ve entered Dante’s Eleventh Circle. The bad one. The one […]

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Diversity

Amazons raise your shields on high

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave quotes a posting from Tara Sue, who writes:   My friend Ross and I have a lot in common. We both come from military families–his cousin and uncle serve and my brothers are soldiers. We were both raised by our father. And we share many ideas in business and politics. But there […]

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Weblogging

Skeletons in the closet

I had not looked at the negative consequences of Talkback, and appreciate those who have taken the time to point them out. Geodog wrote:   But I think of comments as ephemeral, and strongly contextual. Plus, as Gibbon might say, some things are meant to remain veiled in the decent obscurity of a obscure format. The […]