March 20, 2010

Is There a Place?

Is There a Place?

by Bob Grant

Is there a place where minds can meet?

Is there a place where thoughts can greet?

Is there a place where debate takes place?

Is there a place for all kinds of race?

Is there a place where discussions are real?

Is there a place for passions and zeal?

Is there a place for posts without [...]

March 15, 2010

Prelutsky’s

Prelutsky’s

By Alan Caruba

For a long time I have been reading the commentaries of Burt Prelutsky because they would show up on one of the websites to which I too am a contributor. At first I would just read them and find myself laughing out loud at the sheer wit of the man. He is very [...]

March 15, 2010

To Self Pub, to POD, or to Not Self Pub or Not POD -..That is the Debate

To Self Pub, to POD, or to Not Self Pub or Not POD -..That is the Debate

My Guest Today is here for a DEBATE.  PA Brown’s Bio is at the END of this blog.

The question we are taking up today has complicated answers.  It involves writers deciding to self publish and/or working with a POD [...]

March 14, 2010

Background to Monday Afternoon

Stephen Sangirardi
Bard715@aol.com
Background to Monday Afternoon
 
   Asked to write some information about how I came to write my novel, I must be very frank about three things. Two years ago, my friend and the Editor of Wild Leaf Press, Bill Hunter, gave me some advice about writing a novel. Bill said that what sells today in [...]

March 14, 2010

Simmering a Book in a Year w/setbacks & backdrops & Dialoguing It

Setbacks can end forward progress on a writing project but it is not the mistakes and missteps that define us but how we react to them; overcoming the loss of 75 pages is the topic of the ongoing Cook a Book in a Year gauntlet I have thrown down at http://ning.it/aRjND4
Also the contest to NAME [...]

March 9, 2010

Media biased for Beard

Media biased for Beard

by Tyree Harris

Oregon kicker Robert Beard was allegedly beaten unconscious by Kirby Hawkins and Maurice Peterson on Jan. 24, at about 12:30 a.m.

When people heard about this, many felt terrible for Beard; he was portrayed by the police reports and the media to be the innocent victim who was just trying to [...]

March 8, 2010

Steve Sangirardi’s novel Monday Afternoon published by Night Reading

 Hi—this is Steve Sangirardi, and I’ll try to be as terse as possible. When I retired from Clarke last year, I felt a guilty void that I converted into writing. Miraculously, I found a publisher for my novel, Monday Afternoon: Night Reading, located in the UK. Night Reading is featured on its website and has [...]

March 2, 2010

Western perspective is not culture

Western perspective is not culture

by Tyree Harris

Sitting in my race, class and ethnic groups course, twiddling my thumbs and trying to follow my professor, I couldn’t help but feel disconnected. There he went, speaking of tolerance, what it means to be prejudiced and how it’s easy to stereotype other races — but this is probably [...]

February 28, 2010

SWI – Total List of Countries visiting SWI over the last 60 days

Visits

11,511

% of Site Total: 100.00%

Pages/Visit
The average number of pages viewed during a visit to your site. Repeated views of a single page are counted.

Pages/Visit

2.34

Site Avg: 2.34 (0.00%)

Avg. Time on Site
The average duration of a visit to your site.

Avg. Time on Site

00:03:09

Site Avg: 00:03:09 (0.00%)

% New Visits
The percentage of visits by [...]

February 28, 2010

SWI – Top 500 Page Views over the last 60 days

Pageviews

26,981

% of Site Total: 100.00%

Unique Pageviews
The number of visits during which one or more of these pages was viewed.

Unique Pageviews

18,950

% of Site Total: 100.00%

Avg. Time on Page
The average amount of time visitors spent viewing this set of pages or page.

Avg. Time on Page [...]

February 25, 2010

A Call For Help Goes Unanswered.

A Call For Help Goes Unanswered.

by Tyree Harris

When Portland State student Brenda Johnson, who asked that her real name be withheld, traded in her old BlackBerry for a new BlackBerry Storm from a man named Robert she met on Craigslist, she was thrilled.

After she made the trade, she called a friend to see if it [...]

February 25, 2010

An Invitation to Writers

We first put our site on the Internet in December 2008 – since then we have had over 110,000 viewers visit our site.  We extend an invitation to all writers to become contributors.  If you are interested please reply to SpeakWithoutInterruption@gmail.com and let us know the type of writings you [...]

February 21, 2010

China Impression (Chapter one: Differences Among Cities)

China Impression

Chapter One: Differences Among Cities

This Chinese New Year Season,something did surprise me.

As a rule, every year this time, I must make the trip to the hometown of my wife, where her father still lives in. What astonished me is that I could not find anybody smoke in the bus! Just last year and before, [...]

February 20, 2010

All flash, no substance

All flash, no substance

by Tyree Harris

This past Tuesday, the University of Oregon had the honor of hosting a speech from Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the most historically controversial figures in American history. This being a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, fitting right into a vast free space between my classes, and (most importantly) being free, it was [...]

February 16, 2010

Drunken assaults in Eugene not isolated event

Drunken assaults in Eugene not isolated event

by Tyree Harris

The recent assaults and thefts at University of Oregon involving football players Rob Beard and Mike Bowlin have caused quite a stir: I’ve seen people in Eugene begin to worry about their safety, traveling with friends more often and discussing how violent it has become. However, despite [...]

February 16, 2010

Dad's love overcomes obstacles

Dad’s love overcomes obstacles

by Tyree Harris 

Four-year-old Amirya Skyler doesn’t know how lucky she is. Lying on her dad’s bed in a one-bedroom apartment murmuring “I love you” in her sleepy little voice, you’d never guess that she’s seen everything from drug addiction and abandonment to custody battles and adjusting to life with a man she [...]

February 14, 2010

Happiness Key: Love Yourself

Happiness Key: Love yourself

by Kristen Houghton

http://www.andthenillbehappy.com/happinessblogandkeys.htm

It is an unfortunate fact that too many of us are taught as children that self-love is akin to
being selfish. It is not. Loving, nurturing, and nourishing yourself is practicing a healthy and
practical habit. It isn’t selfish at all; it enhances you as a person. In fact, independent studies
show [...]

February 14, 2010

Julia & Julia Type Journal for Cooking up a Gritty Suspense or Mystery Novel by Robert W. Walker

Julia & Julia Type Journal for Cooking up a Gritty Suspense or Mystery Novel by Robert W. Walker

At Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, yes, you can follow me as I blog on the progress and success or failure of putting together my 50th novel. Without a contract, written on speculation only in my head [...]

February 11, 2010

The SWI Question of the Day (2-11-10)

Complete this sentence – If I did not have the freedom to write I would…………

We welcome your thoughts and comments.

February 4, 2010

What is a Writer?

What is a Writer?  Is is someone who has been trained as one or someone who believes they are one?  Is is someone who uses big words and knows proper grammar or is it someone who writes the way they feel with spelling and grammatical errors?  Is it someone who has published books, articles, and [...]

February 2, 2010

My “Extreme Interest” in having Chinese Writers contribute to our SWI Site

I have had both a personal, and business, relationship with China – and its people – since 2003.  I have written articles – posted to our site – regarding China and have made it no secret regarding my extreme interest in having contributors, from China, post their articles to our site.  I am excited that [...]

February 1, 2010

February 2010 (Content by Title – Previous 12 Months)

Below are the results – from Google Analytics – for our SWI site showing the Top 200 pages visited over the past 12 months:

Pageviews

128,896

% of Site Total:

100.00%

Unique Pageviews
The number of visits during which one or more of these pages was viewed.

Unique Pageviews

90,609

% of Site Total: 100.00%

Avg. Time on Page
The average amount of time visitors spent [...]

January 21, 2010

Reader error - it doesn't exist

Uneducated clod, or missed opportunity?

Sitting in the hot muggy class room I was getting over last night’s wild dorm party,  and wondering when I was going to see that girl again. Where did she say she lived?

Then the words, that have haunted me ever since, came out of an old and rumpled instructor’s mouth.

“In [...]

January 19, 2010

Can We Be All Things To All People?

This site remains open to everyone – every topic – every view.  Can we be all things to all people – maybe not?  I have heard-read-seen many people-places-things that state they are impartial but I have yet to find that to be the case.  If there is one thing I want this site to be [...]

January 1, 2010

GREATEST SECRETS of Commericial Fiction Writers Revealed for Your Use By Robert Walker

GREATEST SECRETS of Commercial Fiction Writers Revealed for Your Use By Robert W. Walker
GREATEST SECRETS are revealed in RED

Using a brief excerpt from chapter 3 of Children of Salem, I intend to point out key decisions a writer makes as he works. This blog is intended to instruct new writers and remind veterans how we [...]

December 24, 2009

SpeakWithoutInterruption – Review of our First Year

It has been a little over a year since our Online Magazine was first operational.  Over that period we have had almost 2,000 posts from over 85 writers who have made at least one contribution.  We have had over 85,000 viewers visit our site in the same time period.  We have lost writers – and [...]

December 18, 2009

An Invitation to All Writers “Outside” the USA

Our Online Magazine was started in December 2008.  Since then we have had visitors to our site that represent 165 countries.  Although we have a few contributing writers – outside the U.S. – we “very much” want more.  Many, many, many more!  If you come to our site from outside the USA – and would like to become a contributor [...]

December 18, 2009

The Adam Lambert Problem

The Adam Lambert Problem
“Wrong track” poll numbers aren’t just about the economy.

 

The news came in numbers and the numbers were fairly grim, all the grimmer for being unsurprising. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reported this week that more than half of Americans, 55%, think America is on the wrong track, with only 33% saying [...]

December 9, 2009

WHAT is so MYSTERIOUS about VOICE & Point of View in the Novel?

WHAT is so MYSTERIOUS about VOICE & Point of View in the Novel?
                                 by Robert W. Walker
 
 
I cannot tell you the number of times I have read someone saying that Voice is the most mysterious element of the writing process, and that it is not teachable but so nebulous as t be as fleeting as [...]

December 9, 2009

Writers Make the World Go Round

Writers Make the World Go Round

by Bob Grant

Writers make the world go round,

In page and print they can be found.

Some write of horror – some write of fame,

Some write of truth – some write of blame.

Some write for fun – some write for money,

Some write of sad – some write of funny.

Some write of self [...]

December 2, 2009

Sex, Politics, and Religion

Sex, Politics, and Religion

by Bob Grant

 

Sex may be to some what it is not to others,

In tactful written form if I had my druthers.

Politics may be to one what it is not to others,

In respectful written form if I had my druthers.

Religion in degree to you but not the norm for others,

In reserved written form [...]

November 25, 2009

Pater’s Principle

Stephen Sangirardi   Pater’s Principle   Bard715@aol.com
 
Not to discern every tick of the day:
some helpless twitch in a have-not’s eyes,
some corpulent stag demanding his say,
some cross-my-heart vow whose countenance lies
is sleeping before the light goes away.
 
Some wounded esteem applauding best brother,
some quivering lip resentful of beauty,
some wife’s drawn cheek, her man eyeing another
with that lustful gaze she [...]

November 23, 2009

Cleansing Both Ways

Stephen Sangirardi
Bard715@aol.com
Cleansing Both Ways
 
   They had just finished an intense session of love-making. His girlfriend, obviously dissatisfied, lit a cigarette; each exhalation of smoke was like a sigh. She wondered for not the first time if their intimacy was a gesture of love or merely a lustful burst which would have explained his hasty withdrawal. [...]

November 17, 2009

Book Sale Comments from a Non-Writer

“If” I were a writer – and a good writer to boot - it would frustrate the heck out of me to see how some books (maybe my books) don’t sell when people are standing in line for others.  I earlier posted my thoughts on how Dan Brown’s new book sold – now there is another [...]

November 16, 2009

The Dream

Stephen Sangirardi    The Dream           Bard715@aol.com
 
   The other night I had a vivid and disturbing dream. I was the muezzin in a Moslem country, atop the tower of a minaret, giving notice to those below that it was time to worship. But I was ignored. I cried, I moaned, I bellowed, I cajoled, I practically executed [...]

November 14, 2009

THE RIDICULOUS SIDE OF LIFE

 

The Wide and Wacky World of Sports

Nancy Pofahl

I like sports. My whole family does, save my daughter.  She’s the odd one.

When I was young, I loved to play tennis, volleyball, basketball or anything that involved guys crashing into girls. Especially [...]

November 14, 2009

Only a fool has sex except for money

For far too long now I have been profoundly exasperated by people saying that they will only publish their book if they can make big money on it.

“How do you write a bestseller? How much do you make? Some authors make a stack of money! Why else would you write? There must be a way!”

All [...]

November 11, 2009

Pushkin

Stephen Sangirardi   Bard715@aol.com
Pushkin
 
   It was not hard to figure out why he was dying: if you lived by the Byron, you died by the Byron. Being fatally wounded in the frigid St. Petersburg snow was the extra touch a poet needed to make the day complete. And a duel over an essentially worthless woman, fueled [...]

November 10, 2009

Doing something for other than Monetary Reasons

When I started this site, in December 2008, I approached it as any other business that I have owned.  I expected my efforts to realize rewards – monetary rewards.  I had a plan – to obtain the largest number of contributors and viewers – in the shortest amount of time.  I felt that volume would equal results [...]

November 7, 2009

Raising the Dead Manuscript from Its Grave: Part 1

Raising the Dead Manuscript from Its Grave:  Part 1
by  Robert W. Walker
 
I published myself after a lifetime of eschewing any sort of vanity press. And I did it using a “dead” manuscript about a “dead” subject filled with “dead” historical characters in a “dead” time period which one editor, a true pro, said of: “It [...]

November 3, 2009

Books where People with Developmental Disability are not Villains

Minette Coleman forwarded this to me because she felt writers need to see what other writers are doing, or how they take the job they have been given and turn it into a story.

Here’s a mystery for you. Why aren’t there more books where people with developmental disabilities are not villains? Not special. Just regular [...]

October 30, 2009

We’re Governed by Callous Children

We’re Governed by Callous Children
Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don’t even notice.

 

The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves of money are sloshing through the system, creating [...]

October 29, 2009

Waxing Philosophical: Life’s Beginnings, Endings & All of That Lies Between

Waxing Philosophical: Life’s Beginnings, Endings & All of That Lies Between

by Robert W. Walker

 
The subject on my mind this day is what happens when we stop to think about the hard face of reality in questioning our birth, our beginning, our personal GO on the Monopoly board of life? Gawd but that is an awful [...]

October 29, 2009

The Ridiculous side of life

The Ridiculous Side of Shop Till You Drop

Nancy Pofahl

The holiday [...]

October 23, 2009

It’s His Rubble Now

It’s His Rubble Now
And the American people want him to fix it.

At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. From that point on, the presidency—all his decisions, all the credit and blame for them—was his. The American people didn’t hold [...]

October 21, 2009

Kosher

Stephen Sangirardi  Kosher  
Bard715@aol.com
 
I make the sign-of-the-cross
In the teacher’s bathroom at Yeshiva,
Glancing at walls for coy surveillance;
Where if students see ‘Christmas’
Written on the page,
They must read it as ‘X’
Or hear banging on the wall,
And I am called to the Board to explain my lapse.
 
I wonder if G-D would fill a stocking
With coal
Should cantors lament with polyphonic [...]

October 18, 2009

The Ridiculous Side Of Life

The Ridiculous Side Of A Pet Owning You
Nancy Pofahl

I have a cat. Or should I say, my cat has me. I am a slave to her turn-on-a-dime mood swings and iron will and insatiable but picky appetite. She is the family cat, but I am her mother. I have [...]

October 16, 2009

New ways to “write.”

I though this was interesting enough to bring to all your attention, most of you know my feelings on this subject.  However, this writer says some important things about the way we create, even if he put them in a commentary about the “iTablet”.  The writers name is Dan Lyons and this is from Newsweek [...]

October 14, 2009

The three faces of Steve, or Eve

Stephen Sangirardi 
Bard715@aol.com
The three faces of Steve, or Eve
 
    Do you think Chaucer was a great listener? The great writer must be an intense listener and observer. He listens, uses his empathy, and imagines what it must be like to be the person he is audience to—the wife who has lost her husband to another woman [...]

October 10, 2009

Chicken or Egg, Plot or Character – Which Comes First?

Chicken or Egg, Plot or Character – Which Comes First?

                                      by Robert W. Walker w/help from 4 Pen Names

 

 

I am not a sick person or a schizophrenic; I simply have [...]

October 10, 2009

Intermingling of Romance and Mystery – an excerpt from Children of Salem

Intermingling of Romance and Mystery – an excerpt from Children of Salem
                                                   – by Robert W. Walker

 

I want to discuss the importance of making a mystery well-rounded by having a strong romantic thread running throughout, and conversely a well-rounded romance novel ought to have [...]

October 9, 2009

Classification and Louie

Stephen Sangirardi   Bard715@aol.com
Classification and Louie
 
   And yet another Thanksgiving has arrived. As usual, the many relatives congregate at my mother’s Long Island home. Like elements from a script, the sight and sounds of this holiday are unmistakable. My mother and aunts clamorously cook in the kitchen, making sure that the antipasto, ravioli, and turkey will [...]

October 8, 2009

Adoration questions concerning a somewhat Richard Cory

Adoration questions concerning a somewhat Richard Cory:
Stephen Sangirardi   Bard715@aolcom
 
If Christ were like us in everything save sin,
how was he made perfect through suffering
as we’re told in St. Paul’s edition?
And when he was scorned by swooned Nazarenes,
did he seem too bland for the Supreme Fiction?
 
What if Christ discovered his Divinity
in an act of sheer Columbus?
What if [...]

October 8, 2009

China in Transition, Part One in a Series

China in Transition, Part One in a Series

by Lloyd Lofthouse

My wife landed in Seattle in 1984. She was born in China during the Cultural Revolution and was twenty-seven when she arrived in America. She came prepared for the worst with a suitcase full of toilet paper. The state controlled media in China fed the people [...]

October 5, 2009

Minority Treatment in China, Part 4

Minority Treatment in China, Part 4

by Lloyd Lofthouse

Many similarities exist between the way the emperors of old treated minorities inside China and the way the Communist government treats minorities today.

The law now applies to all fifty-six minorities in two areas. The first law is that an elementary education is mandatory for all children. There are [...]

October 2, 2009

Dubrovnik, Pearl of the Adriatic

Dubrovnik, Pearl of the Adriatic

by John Armor

Dubrovnik, Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia, is a relatively new city by European standards.  It began in the 7th century AD, when sailors and traders in its area built the first fortifications to protect themselves from raids by various interests, all classified as “barbarians.”

We would not have gone to [...]

September 25, 2009

Minority Treatment in China, Part 3

Minority Treatment in China, Part 3

by Lloyd Lofthouse If the minority king became powerful and caused unrest, the emperor proposed that this king marry the emperor’s real daughter, as if to say, “You will be a member of my family so stop what you are doing. Since we are soon to be related through marriage, there [...]

September 25, 2009

Strange Fits of Ben

Stephen Sangirardi       Strange Fits of Ben                Bard715@aol.com
 
   A Friday night in June was a wonderful thing, thought Ben Simon. He was leaning against the car in front of his corner house, waiting for his friend to arrive. Things could not have been better, now that college was over. He wasn’t even bothered by the mosquitoes [...]

September 25, 2009

Sarah and Rod–strange bedfellows of fame and fortune

Sarah and Rod–strange bedfellows of fame and fortune

by Bill Hazelgrove

Used to be you had to run for something or be in office. Not anymore. You can be considered viable and newsworthy and even political merely by keeping a media presence on the national radar screen. Rob and Sarah are strange bedfellows but they are queerly [...]

September 24, 2009

Wounded Healer

Stephen Sangirardi  Wounded Healer  Bard715@aol.com
 
At the time of the nation’s Civil crack,
Bill Percy was a medic for the North
who saw more blood than Macbeth’s hand could hold.
Torn flesh from pickets straddling the soul
made him dream of lakes reeking mephitis
and brooding barges of rigor mortis
that turned morning screams a welcomed show.
 
Few were as charitable in any [...]

September 24, 2009

Meh: Comments.

In the last couple of weeks I have been learning about the various contributors on SWI (Speak Without Interruption), particularly about their reaction to comments.

We have a good amount of contributors who are not interested in comments at all.  They post monolithic essays espousing their fixed opinion, conspiracy theory or ad campaign and they’re [...]

September 24, 2009

Parousia

Stephen Sangirardi  Parousia  Bard715@aol.com
 
Close your worn testament, and open the new.
The time has come to forget adoption
or being left by the wayside. Your father’s
no renegade, though often you swore
he regarded you a dirty tissue.
I think he heard you, when with hands akimbo
you screamed you gave the best trials of your life;
tenacity he finds irresistible,
and every [...]

September 23, 2009

Writing ART: The ugly truth, lesson 1

Lesson 1:  wordsmiths and writers

Of course, it’s none of my business, but in my mind, there are two very different types of scribbling words on a page; wordsmithing and writing.    It’s just more names, or possibly titles, and humans often cross over from one to the other, leaping back and forth at will. Or, [...]

September 23, 2009

Roommates

Stephen Sangirardi  Roommates  Bard715@aol.com
 
It’s rough when one roommate is getting laid
and the other isn’t. Doors slam, the sighing
gets louder, and how many times has she
been here this week…is asked in tundra
which can come by twitching, or the fluff
of frustration written across the roommate
who isn’t getting laid.
                             It’s worse when they’re
watching television. The you-know-who
is a freeloader [...]

September 22, 2009

Missing

Stephen Sangirardi Missing Bard715@aol.com
 
For the past ten years my wife’s been missing…
mysteriously she has disappeared
not like some thief who runs off with your things,
not like a starlet who craves a career.
Kidnapping, too, is out of the question
or the police would have been called by now.
But she might as well be held for ransom
for this is [...]

September 22, 2009

The Stork vs Sex

I have a beautiful daughter and an equally beautiful granddaughter - neither of which was delivered by the stork!

We have had a lively exchange – both among our contributors - and through related postings to our site.  All of this discussion evolved around the general topic of Sex.  My feeling is that any sexually related subject can be addressed [...]

September 21, 2009

SWI – Open to Everyone “maybe not” For Everyone

SWI – Open to Everyone “maybe not” For Everyone

by Bob Grant

 

My original idea for this site came from watching talk TV with my wife who loves these programs – me, [...]

September 21, 2009

Join me join the fray

 Join me join the fray–
 
 
Stephen Sangirardi Gethsemane Bard715@aol.com
 
   He looked at his watch and wondered if they were really coming. For this moment he had absconded into the night three years ago, preferring the company of terebinths and cenobites to wife and child. Three years ago in Nazareth: her hands akimbo, barring the door, swearing [...]

September 19, 2009

China and Native Minority Treatment, Part Two

China and Native Minority Treatment, Part Two

by Lloyd Lofthouse

Most of us have heard about Tibet and the demands by Tibetans in exile that Tibet be free from China to rule itself.  We hear claims of recent brutal human rights violations taking place without much evidence to support the claims. 

Meanwhile, in the United States, news [...]

September 18, 2009

Be careful what you wish for, O Inverse Proportion

Be careful what you wish for, O Inverse Proportion

Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
 
   When my friend Mike married Rose, he was a good-looking guy and she was, well, overweight, a fact Mike overlooked because Rose’s parents were very wealthy. So at first things went well: Mike worked as an electrician without breaking his back, Rose gave him [...]

September 18, 2009

The Compensator

The Compensator

Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
 
   Back in the early 90s, my cousin Dolores seemed to have the perfect life. She lived in affluent Massapequa with her 2.7 kids( 3, actually ), and her husband Tommy made scads of money at Merrill Lynch. Then, after 15 years of what she thought was an ideal marriage, Tommy dropped [...]

September 18, 2009

Recovery

Recovery

Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com                            
 
    He found himself in a dither of anxiety when he could not feel his wallet in his back pocket; positively cringed at the thought of his American Express card falling into the hands of some interloper. It was all the more reason for his nasty reply to his daughter in Applebee’s when [...]

September 18, 2009

In Printed Form or Not?

As stated in SWI Roots http://www.speakwithoutinterruption.com/site/swi-roots/  I have no credentials or experience to have started our Speak Without Interruption Online Magazine.  I just had an idea – and with the tremendous help of my Son-in-law plus the writers who took a chance on an unknown site – we are experiencing an ever increasing audience and [...]

September 17, 2009

Letter to Oedipus from his foster mother Merope

Letter to Oedipus from his foster mother Merope

Stephen Sangirardi Bard715@aol.com
 
Dear Oedipus,
 
   That greedy messenger just returned to Corinth with the news, the whole damn story. O Oedipus, I wish you wouldn’t have left here so quickly twenty years ago. I would have explained everything, about how you came here, the circumstances of your infancy, those [...]

September 17, 2009

The Acupuncturist and the Zen Rock Garden

The Acupuncturist and the Zen Rock Garden
Stephen Sangirardi— Bard715@aol.com
 
   I insisted on a licensed Chinese acupuncturist and that’s exactly what I got right out of the Managed United Health Care Directory. Her waiting room featured Oriental motif, especially around the scrolled windows, and cool, sanitized air. New Age Music wafted about the room, and wouldn’t [...]

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