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Jan.20.2008
You know how it is--you are worried about something potentially life threatening. You may or may not have something wrong with you--or you are on a plane that is making an emergency landing, traveling from Oakland to San Francisco at low elevation until the flight attendant tells you to assume the...
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Jan.19.2008
I love to vacuum. I know, it's kind of sick, but it is so satisfying. I truly get a sense of purpose and accomplishment. There are very few places in this world where you can see immediate results for your work, and vacuuming is one of them (cleaning the kitchen counter is also lovely).
But to...
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Jan.18.2008
So every time I go into a certain store, I want to grab a shopping bag before I begin shopping (if I'm shopping green and wisely, I could use my canvas bag). The reason I want this bag is so that I can put it on my head, in order to avoid looking at the employees stocking cans and boxes or working...
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Jan.17.2008
Yesterday a reporter called me to ask me my thoughts about what to say to teenagers who are just starting to write. A week ago, a friend wrote me about a friend's child who was just starting to write, inspired by Stephanie Meyers' book. Both the reporter and my friend wanted to know what my...
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Jan.16.2008
Many years ago, when I first began teaching as a part-time instructor, I taught an English class devoted to spelling. Now, I am not a natural speller, having learned many of the rules out of necessity for myself, so I took to teaching this short class well, knowing how useful spelling rules are.(...
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Jan.15.2008
This has nothing at all to do with writing or reading or being smart (except if you are thinking it is smart to exercise, which it is, of course). This blog entry is about what not to do at a gym, written by me, sometimes in the passive voice, because I get a little grumpy with all the New Year's...
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Jan.14.2008
My oldest son has always listened to a message I can't hear. Once when he was two, he seemed to be in very deep contemplation, and I said, "What are you thinking about?"
He turned to me and said, a smile on his face, "Something nice."
And then he went back to thinking.
Through...
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Jan.13.2008
So there is a new author stink about plagiarism. This comes up now and again in the published works world, but I face it every single day as a teacher of English. This habit people have of borrowing from others is an old, very old habit of us humans. but in recent times, we've decided it is wrong...
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Jan.12.2008
My feeling is that it is a miracle we all aren't dead. We drive two ton machines down concrete roads at high speeds. We don't pay much attention as it is, have blind spots where semis can hide, and make mistakes, as people do.
But then we decide we are going to talk on the phone. Worse, we might...
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Jan.11.2008
Before you go and look, guess how many bottles of cloves you have in your spice cabinet. Ground and whole cloves. What do you think? One or two, one of each?
When I moved recently, I found I had six bottles of ground cloves, two of whole.
Now, this isn't Renaissance England and I don't need to...
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Jan.10.2008
I know you've seen the commercial for the Clapper. The part I think about most is the older woman in bed turning on her side and giving a couple of very soft claps and the light goes out. Clap on, clap off, the Clapper.
So my boyfriend and I move into a house that has a room with no light switch...
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Jan.09.2008
Okay, so I grew up in California, the Bay Area. I admit that we who were born and raised right smack here have no clue about driving in weather. Yes, some of us spend time in Tahoe, but even then, it's a learned skill, that skidding and crashing into snow banks.
But let's face it. We don't know...
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Jan.08.2008
Okay, here I am. I am a working writer, not heralded by The San Francisco Chronicle or The New York Times. So what that I have nine published novels, 10, 11, and 12 in the can. It actually isn't that big of a deal. There are numerous writers out there doing their thing, writing books, hoping...
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About Jessica
Jessica Barksdale Inclán's debut novel Her Daughter's Eyes, published in 2001, was the premier novel published under New American Library's new imprint Accent. Her Daughter's Eyes was a final nominee for the YALSA Award for the best books of 2001 and best...
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