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The Captain and Claire
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Category Archives: News
Coronavirus Dispatch #3: It’s Surreal
I’m going to keep these short, as none of us have a lot of bandwidth these days. But yes, it’s surreal. We have gone over 20,00 deaths in the U.S. as of today. In a few days, it will be … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal
Tagged 2020, California, coronavirus, deaths, Hart Island, Ireland, life after this, Medium, pain, pandemic, Return to Normal, surreal
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Coronavirus Dispatch #2: Andrew Cuomo Is Awesome
It helps to watch New York Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s measured, eloquent press conferences in the mornings. I watch them on CNN; I think MSNBC carries them as well. Here he is today, asked about what he would tell people who … Continue reading
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March 26, 2020
Tagged Andrew Cuomo, coronavirus, empathy, fear, hope, inspiration, New York, News
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Coronavirus Dispatch #1
Here’s how it started, at least the official story, from a site called CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) that I just happened upon today on the web: “As suspected, a novel coronavirus has been identified in some … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Personal, San Francisco
Tagged alienation, Bay Area, California, capitalism, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis, death, empathy, fear, friendship, global pandemic, loss, nature, shelter in place, shortage, society, surreal, tests, Trump Administration, uncertainty
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Read an Ebook Week Sale at Smashwords
It always creeps up on us! Here are some details about the annual Read an Ebook Week sale at Smashwords.com: “How the Program Works: At one minute past midnight Pacific time on March 1, the special Smashwords Read an Ebook … Continue reading
Posted in News, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged 2020, LGBTQ, novels, Read an Ebook Week, sale, Smashwords
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A Challenging New Year: Downbeat Trends for Indie Publishing
And so, 2020 starts out intense right out of the gate! But although our attention is drawn to a possible war brewing with Iran due to an impulsive act of political assassination by the hapless idiot acting as our president, … Continue reading
Time of Grace Released in Audio Format!
I finished writing my lesbian historical novel Time of Grace 20 years ago, which is astonishing to me. Set at the time of the Easter Rising of 1916, it was published by a small press in Ireland, and subsequently released … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News, Self-publishing
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Audible, audiobook, Easter Rising 1916, lesbian, LGBT historical, LGBT romance, time of grace
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Loma Prieta Memory: Reading Pinter by Candlelight
(Note: I lived through Loma Prieta in 1989, which is now, incredibly, 30 years ago. The first section of this essay was written in 1999, on the 10th anniversary of the earthquake.) I’d been in San Francisco for a little over a … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal, Writing
Tagged earthquake, Loma Prieta, personal essay, San Francisco
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A Short Month, but an Exhausting One!
September was pretty exhausting! Due to a reshuffle at a magazine I work for, I was unexpectedly placed in a different role: copyediting rather than proofing. When I used to work for the Pacific Sun in San Rafael, I envied … Continue reading
A Thought for the Day (and the Days Ahead)
“It’s OK for our hearts to be broken over the world. What else is a heart for?” ~ Joanna Macy
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August 4, 2019
Tagged Dayton, domestic terrorism, El Paso, grief, guns, Joanna Macy, loss, News, tragedy, turmoil, violence
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Summer Has Started
It would have been Anthony Bourdain’s 63rd birthday today. Enjoy a listen to his inimitable voice. He manages to bring out the poetry in Waffle House. Today is a day to remember him with love. Today would have been Anthony … Continue reading
