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The Other Side of Romance: Almost Paradise
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Friday, July 18, 2008. THE beach is on top of my list when it comes to choices of romantic settings in my novels. The reasons are much too transparent even to the readers. This island resort, which I will call Almost Paradise, has been the setting of many of my romantic novels, and also the setting of my very successful romance-thriller series, Diamante. This is a glimpse of one of several oth...
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The Other Side of Romance: May 2009
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Friday, May 15, 2009. When One Marries for Reasons Other Than Love. Marrying for love is divine,. Marrying for reputation – i.e. the girl got pregnant and marrying “is the right thing to do” – is honorable,. Marrying for convenience is a breeze to understand,. Marrying on the rebound is both imprudent and risky,. Marrying for companionship, if just a ruse, is doubly pathetic;. GARFIELD and Gar...
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The Other Side of Romance: July 2008
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Friday, July 18, 2008. THE beach is on top of my list when it comes to choices of romantic settings in my novels. The reasons are much too transparent even to the readers. This island resort, which I will call Almost Paradise, has been the setting of many of my romantic novels, and also the setting of my very successful romance-thriller series, Diamante. This is a glimpse of one of several oth...
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The Other Side of Romance: July 2009
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Monday, July 13, 2009. Is The Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Taking time off the other side of romance to revisit a short essay written nearly a year ago.). The Intertwining of Problem Solving. Two Approaches to Problem Solving. A Glass Half Full and a Lemonade. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A published writer of numerous short stories (both in prose and comics), various columns in magazines, mo...
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The Other Side of Romance: September 2008
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Monday, September 29, 2008. The Irony of Reality. HE was one notable friend who had made me feel special – special in the sense that not a lot of people in this whole wide world have a rocket scientist for a friend. Yes, he is a rocket scientist, the kind that we all want to make jokes about in order to justify our less-than-genius IQ. However, I did not immediately learn if the surgery went w...
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The Other Side of Romance: June 2008
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Sunday, June 29, 2008. The Eternal Bachelor - Not. HIS was the face and physique I would never dream of using to describe the hero of my romantic novel. But I do remember having arrogated, for one of my fictive heroes, some of his other attributes. Ignore the face and physical build and sure, he would be Prototype Hero # 3 of formulaic romance novels. He wasn’t downright plain. And then again:...
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The Other Side of Romance: April 2009
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Thursday, April 16, 2009. The Reality of Irony. In the past couple of years, saying ‘life is short’ has become a mantra-like line for me. But my saying that life is short did not only mean living life to the fullest or taking every opportunity, every chance, every little thing that might make life – yours and that of others linked to you – a bit more meaningful. Sad, so sad. Life, indeed, is s...
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The Other Side of Romance: The Irony of Reality
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Monday, September 29, 2008. The Irony of Reality. HE was one notable friend who had made me feel special – special in the sense that not a lot of people in this whole wide world have a rocket scientist for a friend. Yes, he is a rocket scientist, the kind that we all want to make jokes about in order to justify our less-than-genius IQ. However, I did not immediately learn if the surgery went w...
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The Other Side of Romance: When One Marries for Reasons Other Than Love
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The Other Side of Romance. True stories of very real people as viewed through pragmatic lenses tempered by time. Friday, May 15, 2009. When One Marries for Reasons Other Than Love. Marrying for love is divine,. Marrying for reputation – i.e. the girl got pregnant and marrying “is the right thing to do” – is honorable,. Marrying for convenience is a breeze to understand,. Marrying on the rebound is both imprudent and risky,. Marrying for companionship, if just a ruse, is doubly pathetic;. GARFIELD and Gar...