Gloria5
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Gloria5
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- I have taken a couple of writers workshops with authors, and tend to meet some by mere accident, or what I consider according to the guide book "The Secret" coincidence, but oddly it isn't as coincidental as just the sense of purpose of the visit. I have seen Joyce Maynard at Columbia giving a lecture on Truth and Journalism, I have seen writers Pamela Stone at a local library discussing her new book "Opting Out" coincidently I contacted Mrs.Stone when she had an article in a The Post, I liked the article about women making choices regarding careers and being able to keep the stiff upper lip, while keeping a demanding career. I would latter learn, the book was compiled of mostly high earning women who were Ivy League College Grads, and the description of why they felt the work place was pervasive in thier description of what was acceptable of these working moms, including long hours, rigiourous work sechdules with little time for family, poor prepeardness for real life situations, and the inability to strike a balance between the two demanding worlds. This is a subject I have particular interst in, if I had my way I would like to be working in Washington D.C. in a House Ways and Means Committee on Work Place Administration. I feel strongly the work place is unfair to women and the work place knows it, but will just shrug it's shoulders and say, "what do you want us to do about it"?
My Favorites: Reading and Writing
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from various decades as follows, "Jaws", "The God Father", "The Where Abouts of Fanny Hack About Jones" by Erica Jong, "Once is Not Enough" by Jacquline Suzzane, Anne Rice, "The Vampire Lestat", "E.L. Doctrow "Ragtime" John Stienback, "The Grapes of Wrath", Hemingway, "HIlls Like White Elephants", anything provencial, people having affairs always seems to be so complicated and sundry, the whys, the whos and the era of our ways, culture versus religion, versus sexes, it is always pretty ugly at best and the strangest of bedfellows keep us coampany while reading through these characters flaws. I also have an extreme love of childrens interest, primarily Disney, and some The Brothers Grimm, Mary Poppins, and other great classics. "Rumplestilskin",
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Last thing I actually picked up and read was "Tearing Down The Wall of Sound" about the life and tmes of music legend Phil Spector. Great book, loaded with facets about the producing of sound, especially Phil Spectors involvement in what he is credited for creating The Wall of Sound.
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On the internet, on the couch, comfortable places, sometimes in the kitchen. Really anyplace I can get comfortable, and yes doze off.
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Oh boy, where would I start, I once said I would like to be Betty Ruble, from the Flintstones, I don't know what it is about the fabulous 70's but boy am I stuck there, like in hyperdrive.
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Um, this is easy, I tend to have a pretty stern sense about me, so don't try to b.s. me, I like a truthful misery to the book, like a good memior usually has to it, what I am liking up to this time is Joyce Maynards memior, "At Home In The World", it became an immediate companion, like talking with a good friend over some camile tea over a little cubby seat while looking over a leafy scene and drifing off into meaningful conversation.
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