The bitch is rich!

I got my first royalty check ever today: 895 whole dollars, US.I still owe money to the publishers of my other two books; the difference is that they paid advances. U of Iowa Press, publisher of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, did not. So I have nearly...

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Red and Black

As a kid, it seemed that everyone else had gotten the guidebook. The other kids knew what it meant, for example, when someone asked if you were a Texan or an Aggie. They knew whether it was polite to eat fried chicken with your hands during school lunch....

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Trust

I am sitting at the dining room table in the house of strangers who are vacationing in Oregon. I have never met them, but they left their key for me in the shed and have encouraged me to eat the perishables in the refrigerator. They took their computers...

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Kenali dan Kunjungi objek Wisata di Pandeglang

Buat blogger yang suka dengan kontes seo, kini kembali hadir satu lagi kontes seo yaitu kontes 'Kenali dan Kunjungi Objek Wisata di Padeglang' Baru tanggal 17 agustus kemarin kontes ini di gelar oleh cintapandeglang.com.Kontes ini bisa menjadi tahap...

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Where's my degree?

I am tired of seeing doctors and doctors and getting estimates and giving my insurance card to be photocopied and also the list of medicine I take. I'm tired of filling out forms that don't give me enough choice; I'm the insured but the place I work...

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The Looming Future

R said she was afraid that after she gave birth to her twins, she would be seized by post-partum depression. She was afraid she'd turn into one of those mothers who hears the voice of the devil and butchers her babies in the bath tub.I said, You can...

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Kembali Lagi

Tidak terasa sudah 5 bulan kurang lebih Blog ini di telantarkan dan baru hari ini saya bisa kembali di sini. Sebenarnya malu untuk beralasan karena kesibukan namun apalah daya karena saya harus mendahulukan dulu blog lain karena setelah saya memutuskan...

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I don't wanna think about it.

I'm not talking about cancer.I'm talking about rowing.I started rowing on Thursday with the cancer rowers. The boat, as noted previously, is very skinny. Very very skinny, even narrower than the escalator at the North and Clybourn L stop. I got in the...

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