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Oct.04.2012
I've always used this day to post poems by poets I love: Anne Sexton, Michael Drayton, Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriella Mistral, and more.
This year, I've been posting some of my own. I don't consider myself a poet - that flow of language, for me, tends to come out as...
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Sep.01.2012
Settling in to finish the current novel (JP Kinkaid Chronicle #8: Comfortably Numb) and doing some serious guitar playing (if my multiple sclerosis objects, it can sod off now), I took a break to watch the Hard Rock Calling from London last month: Bruce Springsteen with Sir Paul McCartney guesting...
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Aug.18.2012
A quiet moment of love for a friend gone way too soon.
Happy 64th birthday, Kathi Kamen Goldmark. Somewhere in time and space, I'm over at your place, you're playing the Eggplant and I'm playing my Wanton Brown, and Sam Barry is pounding on the piano and switching over to play some righteous...
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Jun.01.2012
This is a eulogy that’s been burning away inside since last Thursday morning, when Sam Barry posted up that his wonderful wife Kathi, who’d been battling cancer for the past couple of years, had died.
My sister, my friend.
Kathi and I actually met fairly recently, as such things are defined in the...
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May.24.2012
This morning we lost a light in the world. Her passing leaves a patch of darkness, and I don't see that place being relit any time soon.
At some point, I'll write the story of how Kathi and I became friends. At some point, I'll regret that we never got the chance to do that "cookies and...
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Mar.28.2012
This past weekend, I had a grand old time at the San Domenico School in San Anselmo, Marin County, California. Patricia V. Davis had arranged a sizeable conference, the Women's PowerStrategy Conference. I was busy like a busy thing: we had a sales table for our small press (Plus One Press), I...
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Mar.22.2012
http://www.midwestmultisportlife.com/2012/03/jp-kincaid-chronicles-book-review.html
A very nice look at the entire series. He brings up an interesting point, though, and a dilemna for series writers: because you can't assume the new reader will pick up the first book first, all subsequent books...
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Jan.30.2012
So, anyway, my excellent neuro - Rima Samira Ash, affectionately referred to by me as Birdgirl - has taken me off Avonex shots after nine years and switched me to a pill, a drug called Gylenia.
On the face of it, oh YAY. All good. After nine years, the only four injection sites that were ever...
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Oct.07.2011
Just back from about seven hours in the heart of Occupy San Francisco. I've been asked to write my impressions and feelings about what the Occupy movement is, where it's going. I'm so tired I can barely see straight, but I want to say this:
I brought bags of socks, underwear and clothes down...
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Oct.05.2011
On the morning of 8 December 1980, my alarm went off in my London flat. It was a clock radio, set to BBC, and coming out of the mists of sleep was the news that John Lennon was dead.
I have never allowed a clock radio in my house again. I just can't do it; I'd rather a harsh metallic jangling, or...
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Oct.04.2011
So, let's see. First, I've got a link to a story I did for fellow (really, that should be soror, not fellow) Red Room author Patricia V. Davis, as a guest writer for Harlot's Sauce, her excellent online magazine. Mine's about finding stories in the oddest places, but the magazine is a corking good...
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Jun.14.2011
...than Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Ben Fong-Torres, Oscar Hijuelos and Amy Tan.
No, not some writers conference somewhere; this was at El Rio, a neat little dive bar in the Mission in San Francisco. Second Tuesday of every month, Kathi and her husband, Sam Barry, play El Rio for a jammers night with...
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Jun.02.2011
So, I tried uploading this properly to the Audio page, but for some reason, Red Room's audio page is giving me no love. In any case, here's what this is about:
On 20 March 2011, longtime Rolling Stone stalwart and renowned writer/editor Dave Marsh moderated a panel at South by Southwest in Austin,...
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Jun.01.2011
So, first off, a very nice review for Graceland from Bookin' With Sunny. I love her reviews and apparently, so does Red Room - she had the poetry Review of the Week last week. http://www.bookinwithsunny.com/posts/graceland-book-4-of-the-jp-kinkaid-chronicles/ I'll put that one up on the regular...
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May.11.2011
On May 20, the Kinkaid Foundation (a nonprofit dedicated to providing funds for day to day expenses for people licing with chronic conditions, or recovering from illnesses) will be presenting one hell of a show at the Glaser Center in Santa Rosa, CA:
http://events.sfgate.com/santa-rosa-ca/...
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About Deborah
Deborah Grabien is a cook, guitar player, cat rescuer, traveller, and all-around rocker chick. She also writes a little: she's the author of the Haunted Ballad series (St. Martins Minotaur), six standalone novels, and the Kinkaid Chronicles, the first of...
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EMILY's List (early member), Amnesty International (member on two continents for thirty years), Animal Welfare causes (we rescue feral cats), NARAL and...