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San Jose Autobiography
Relaunching Forever Remembered
Autobiography
July 19, 2011
I have recently launched my workshop, Forever Remembered, for the second time at the Fior d’Italia restaurant.For six Saturday afternoons,...
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The people who come to Forever Remembered
Autobiography
July 19, 2011
A month ago in early June I gave a talk at the UCSF Cancer Resource Center's Art in Recovery Program. This program is a creative outlet for...
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Braving a Storm at Il Cenacolo
Autobiography
July 19, 2011
A three-year-old boy stands alone under a tree atop a knoll overlooking a valley. A storm gathers overhead, its gray clouds lower, thrashing the...
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How to bring drama to your life story
Autobiography
July 19, 2011
Recently I gave a talk at Cypress Lawn Heritage Foundation in Colma, California. Like many of the cemeteries south of San Francisco, Cyprus Lawn...
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A review of By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives by Judith Tannenbaum & Spoon Jackson
Arts & Entertainment
May 11, 2010
By Heart is a new collaborative memoir by Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson. Tannenbaum is a poet and educator who has taught poetry in schools...
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Walk a Mile in My Shoes: stories & poems from children impacted by incarceration
Arts & Entertainment
May 10, 2010
On Friday, May 7th, over 40 youth from Bay Area high and middle schools gathered at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco...
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The landscape of redemption: a review of Purgatory, by Raul Zurita
Arts & Entertainment
April 21, 2010
Raúl Zurita is a Chilean poet who was 22 years old in 1973, when the U.S.- backed military coup led by Augusto Pinochet overthrew the...
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The house on crooked street, a review of The Intruders, by Pat Montandon
Arts & Entertainment
February 6, 2010
Pat Montandon was a 1960’s San Francisco socialite, known for her book How to Be a Party Girl, and her KGO television program, “Pat...
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The Rings of Saturn: a Novel by W.G. Sebald
Arts & Entertainment
November 28, 2009
The rings of the planet Saturn are really one continuous ring made up of innumerable small particles. One well established astronomical theory...
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Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts
Arts & Entertainment
November 23, 2009
Shantaram parallels its author’s own true story of escaping a maximum security prison in Australia and living as a drug runner and passport...
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