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Oct.26.2012
When both of my children were off to college, I went to Paris for three months. I took a computer, printer, clothing for winter, and the key to the 17th century apartment I had found by sheer luck. It was located next to the ancient Abbaye des Grands Augustins, two minutes from Pont Neuf, and a...
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Sep.20.2011
I live in Dogpatch, a historic San Francisco neighborhood on the east side of the city. Walk out of my building, cross the poorly maintained, railroad-tracked street -- I mention this lest some local official might see the benefits, with election year at hand, of repairing the mess -- continue...
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Mar.04.2011
In the mid-eighties, I flew to London to attend a friend's wedding. This was my first foreign-land trip alone, having been through a divorce several years earlier. The morning after the wedding, I checked out of the hotel and picked up a rental car. (When asked by incredulous friends if I...
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Nov.02.2010
Paris: breathtaking architecture, the Louvre, kings and queens and guillotines and, of course, wines and cheeses revered around the world. It is no mystery that this is a magical city, but what about Paris with kids?
Did you know there's a climate-controlled, floating swimming pool built...
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Sep.11.2010
Some people say there's no such thing as bad chocolate. I'm not sure I agree, but I know for a fact that there's no such thing as a bad photo venue in Paris. Whether you're a professional photographer toting multiple Leicas, a shutterbug using an old Brownie Hawkeye, or someone brandishing a...
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Oct.20.2009
Many of you have met Elizabeth Lyon and have enjoyed her quick wit and openness, while an even larger number of you have used her books on writing and editing...for your own writing and for your students'. I received this email and thought we might get something moving for Elizabeth.
About six...
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Mar.17.2009
http://wellreaddonkey.blogspot.com
I'm here all week posting new messages daily, touting new books and recommending some old ones. If you've got a book you want to mention, come on over!
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Mar.10.2009
Obama won, he's burning the midnight whatever-people-burn-now-that-candles-are-deemed-bad-for-the-eyes and, despite what a few aging white men declare, he just might succeed. So why am I occasionally beset by just a wee hint of bitterness? Do any of those guys (yes, I do mean Republicans) take...
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Dec.26.2008
I had dinner with my mother last night and we talked about health insurance. Between Medicare, extended care, and standard insurance for the kind of necessities required by a woman in her late eighties, her monthly costs exceed my monthly mortgage payment. There were several very knowledgable...
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Dec.21.2008
How do writers make ends meet?
In this miserable economy, most of my writer friends are doing what I do: teach, scramble for freelance editing and writing work, pray, whatever works. Masha Hamilton, author of the bestselling Camel Bookmobile, has come up with a unique idea: converting part of her...
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Dec.18.2008
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm just getting used to writing "2008" and it's almost over. How did that happen? Okay, I fell down a flight of stairs and had a concussion, and I admit that my memory is just about back to normal after four months of "What's that word that means...
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Feb.14.2008
I posted an essay about bad reviews (wretched reviews) and it's generating some very interesting comments. So rather than recreate them on this blog, come on over to the essay and share your thoughts!
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Feb.11.2008
Here's a place to comment, share review experiences (good and bad), and generally applaud or lash out at all those *&E#T% reviewers....oops, getting off-track here...and I'm a reviewer. Oy.
So, have you got something to share? Thanks!
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Feb.05.2008
I realize that I'm echoing many such declarations, but...did anyone believe, only four years ago, that Democrats would go into the voting booth in 2008 and be able to choose between a woman and an African-American?
I heard two people talking in the local espresso hangout, one of them complaining...
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Feb.04.2008
If you doubt the goodness of the human spirit, take a look at what happened last week. The call went out for bloggers to mention Patry Francis and her novel...and more than 400 blogs answered. Sure, it's wonderful that the book's Amazon.com numbers fell (or rose!) to the 300s, but what moves me far...
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Essayist, anthologist, novelist.”
—This gem of an anthology about what we fear, avoid, would rather not mention, let alone read about---death----is the funniest book I've read in years. (Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys and Looking for Mary)
About Victoria
VICTORIA ZACKHEIM is the author of The Bone Weaver and editor of five anthologies: He Said What?, The Other Woman; For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance, The Face in the Mirror:Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of...
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Delancey Street Foundation Move-on Emily's List Susan G. Komen for the Cure Heifer International