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Aug.16.2011
When I had my son at age 37, I figured I could give him the stability I could never give my daughter, born when I was still a teenager.
When she was born, I had an army-surplus backpack and my passport. "Poor little Gypsy baby," the nurses whispered as I left the hospital with her.
This time I...
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Oct.06.2010
Muffy McPherson lives across the street. Her house has two stories and a swimming pool in the back yard.
Muffy McPherson has a pink canopy over her bed and a Barbie Dream House under her bedroom window.
In her back yard, behind the pool, Muffy McPherson has a big red playhouse with a Barbie oven...
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Sep.17.2010
Let me listen to me and not to them.
—Gertrude Stein
I bought Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally because it was listed on Amazon.com as “frequently bought together” with my own book, Bluebird.
(Surely there are worse reasons to buy a book).
And anyway,...
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Mar.11.2010
If I wanted to be a writer, I realized, I would have to go where the writers were.
I had to find these people.
These writers.
I had to seek them out and be in their presence and inhale the air they exhaled.
I had to learn from them.
And here was my chance. I saw the ad in the local alternative...
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Jan.31.2010
So, I finally get a serious nod in The New York Times Book Review and Amazon & my publisher are in some hot dispute!***Imagine my puzzlement when someone emailed me Friday evening complaining that my book wasn't available on Amazon.com.I checked it out myself: Indeed, it was listed, but no buy...
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Jan.05.2010
This is best writing class I have ever taken! Almost painlessly you got us to write, write, write. And for me got at some new great material. --Kitty Torres
Eight-week class runs February 20th – April 20thONLINE CLASS LIT STAR TRAININGTaught by Ariel Gore
This class is the...
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Jun.18.2009
Yay! Student o' mine and all-around creative genius Lorette C. Luzajic has a new book out from Handymaiden Editions...
Weird Monologues for a Rainy Life is a collection of art manifestos, book reviews, short stories, blogs, pop culture essays and a surprising number of requiems.
You’ll meet monks...
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May.04.2009
Hip Mama's annual Mother Day's party is May 10th at the watershed in Portland.Get all the info at hipmamamazine.com
June 24 - August 20LIT STAR TRAININGTaught by Ariel Gore
The creative jolt we all need -- for writers wanting to work on either memoir or fiction -- we'll make time to write, create...
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About Ariel
Born on the Monterey Peninsula and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ariel Gore spent the years she was supposed to be in high school as an international bag lady traveling through Asia and Europe and returned to California at age 19, baby in tow....
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