Saturday, October 24, 2015

Never Forgetting: El Dia de los Muertos

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When I lived in Antigua Guatemala in the early nineties, I used to go to the cemetery for All Soul's Day, and marvel at how the food l...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Unfinished Chapters: It's Never Over Till It's Over

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If Life came with a “rewind” button, we could insert ourselves into missed opportunities, give voice to unspoken words, make amends for...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015

For Mari Lou Laso Elders, Our Brown-Eyed Girl

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Mari Lou and Steve Elders If I'd been reading this story in a novel, I'd never have predicted this woefully inadequate ending....
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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Another Gift from the Sea

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In Chicken Soup for the Soul's Time to Thrive, I wrote about my lifelong love affair with the Pacific Ocean in my story "Right...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Whatever Happened to All That Jazz?

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When I was growing up in Los Angeles in the fifties, one of my joys was to stand outside The Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach on Sunday a...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Purpose, Passion, Perseverance...and Ambrose Bierce

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Just released...my 26th story in 23 Chicken Soup books! It's been a bit over a hundred years ago that journalist and satirist Ambr...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Enigmatic vs. Explicit: Cryptic vs. Cookie Cutter?

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Sunflower...a lifelike portrayal "Chaos is order yet undeciphered"--opening message of Villeneuve's Enemy. Sunflowers,...