June 23, 2016
by Emily
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Gail Tsukiyama created a world I have since needed to visit in her novel The Samurai’s Garden . I end up there when trying to cope with the hard news of another shooting or kidnapping and seeking calm, peace or escape. I … Continue reading
April 23, 2013
by Emily
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The first time I thought of this novel I was crossing railroad tracks in my ’84 Plymouth Turismo, bumpy railroad tracks in the middle of Packard Street in Ann Arbor. That was 1986. I urgently needed to make sense of … Continue reading
April 11, 2013
by Emily
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1. GenerationZero All we had to do was take the prize. They’d marched, chanted, been jailed and taunted. Their civil disobedience earned us the right to new social freedoms. Those baby boomers, in short, rocked it. The door was wide open … Continue reading
March 21, 2013
by Emily
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This just happened: I sat down to write an entry about dropping my career down the list when both my granddaughter and mother-in-law needed something. I checked today’s calendar quick before I started. Low and behold, I was at that … Continue reading
June 25, 2012
by Emily
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I had promised myself I would write when I was in Los Angeles. I took a trip down to accompany my daughter to a language program at Pomona College, and we had a lot to do. The school year had … Continue reading