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Three Engines Leaving the Station
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I have been away from blogging because I am completing three works, a short story collection, a book of essays and an extended memoir/reminiscence about my long-distant relationship as a reader and student of Krishnamurti, the spiritual teacher. After a rather negative experience with Red Willow Digital Press (stay away!) in which the editor failed […]
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If I Had to Choose
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Since mid September I’ve been involved writing my third book within the last two years and it is finished, which means editing follows, proofing, grammar checking, footnoting, and all the many little details before it is really finished. This book has been a pleasure to write and it comes in about 41,000 words or maybe 134 […]
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Query Letter for Down to a Sunless Sea
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Dear Editor: I am querying you as to a possible review of Down to a Sunless Sea. This short story collection presents a variety of styles, providing a different reading experience — poetic, journalistic, nostalgic, wrlyly humorous and even macabre. “Herbie” was listed in Martha Foley’s The Best American Short Stories of 1974. I was in good company […]
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Well Now.
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Coming to terms with Krishnamurti is coming to terms with yourself, always will be so. The Stockholm Syndrome has been roughly defined as the unconscious need or willingness to identify with your aggressor, another one of man’s psychological quirks. When reading about K’s education and rearing as a Theosophist and his breaking that bond forever, striking […]