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Slice of Life Challenge at Two Writing Teachers A Photo A Day-am I up to the challenge? Here’s the inspiration I found at Bud Hunt’s blog It was about a year ago that D’Arcy Norman suggested that, if folks wanted to, we might challenge ourselves to shoot a photo a day for the year 2008 [...]

Gran Torino Running time 116 minutes Written by Nick Schenk Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her Here’s the .Gran Torino trailer (Chris plays the priest!) Tonight in LA, Chris will walk the red carpet with his wife, his agent, his parents and me, riding along in his jacket [...]

I was psyched for this new November challenge and I began at midnight on November 1, 2008. I had an old story that I wanted to delve into and I loved the first week, wondering what all the worry was about. I was clicking out 1600 words most days and I loved the motivation of [...]

Slice of Life Tuesdays I Thanks for sharing this comic, Stacey. Just one week ago I was walking around this apartment, stopping by the kitchen for something, anything to munch on, to feed my fears. We were down to last hours of a very long campaign. I began at one place hoping for Al Gore [...]

Hag Semeah Culam! Holidays continue in Israel. Eight days of Sukkoth begin- a harvest holiday, commemorating the Jewish journey in desert when the Jews fled from Egypt and here I am enjoying the fruits. I’m back in summer: shorts, sandals, T-shirts.  I am enjoying Hebrew, more than ever before, not speaking in full conversations but [...]