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Bibliography - This is 50
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Turning 50 and looking for role models who can show me how to do it with style and grace. 50 somethings can be cool too! Currently reading Bowie in Berlin and Confederacy of Dunces. I am due to turn 50 in 2 years so am in preparation. Just been bought Vidal Sassoon’s autobiography as a birthday gift and can highly recommend “Just Kids” by Patti Smith, who herself is an excellent role model for life. Everything by Nancy Mitford, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress! Reading The Human Stain by Ph...
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writing (aka, that thing i do every stinkin’ day) | The Screen Door Slams
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The Screen Door Slams. Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night. Laquo; one word. Writing (aka, that thing i do every stinkin’ day). December 2, 2010 by michaela. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing and can you eliminate it? I think about this dusty little blog frequently… and then click away to read 5 new blog posts by writers i admire. (in fact, i hit ye olde google reader tab once or twice just while composing these few sentences. focus, woman! Thanks for commenting&...
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Hands On....: Moonwalkers
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Life and art in all their moving parts. Sunday, August 26, 2012. The death of Neil Armstrong yesterday reminded me of my collection of autographed glossies of astronauts, and what a telling and bygone artifact they are. When I was a kid, I wrote letters asking for autographs to many people - baseball players like Willie Mays and Tom Seaver, TV stars like Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett and Freddie Prinze, even news broadcasters (yes, like Geraldo). A humid, ominous, black-skied summer day in NYC. I w...
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