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A rough sketch of my book – Moonchild: A Memoir of Albinism
Note: This description can also be found on the Personal Essay and Memoir page. I am albino. Albinism is a recessive genetic condition that means my skin and hair are white, and I’m legally blind....
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Writing from the road – Allentown, PA
It’s been a long time since I wrote anything here on my blog. No, I didn’t fall off the face of the Earth, but let me tell you guys, the latest Mercury Retrograde hit hard. I can’t blame it all on that...
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Home, Home Again
…and I can definitely say, to quote another band, “what a loooooooong, strange trip it’s been.” Three weeks and a day of traveling all over the east coast. I went from Philly to Allentown, PA, from...
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My Table of Contents Looks More Like the Song List on a Soundtrack…or Something
So, all my chapters (except for the first four that cover childhood), are named after song lyrics. In fact, I’ll just put the list of songs on here, to give an idea, and then I want to talk about the...
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In Search of Censored Paragraphs
Another imported post, this one from June 2008. Quick fun fact: Diana Abu-Jaber actually teaches at my university but I’ve never taken a class from her. When I first went to Diana Abu-Jaber’s website,...
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Long Time, No Post
From November 2008: Yeah, I know, it’s been like, two and a half months. There’s lots of news to report, I suppose. It’s been an interesting few months. I lost internet connection for awhile, which...
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Reflections on ’08
And here’s another old post I’m importing from my old blog, an end-of-year survey post for 2008. Funny thing, some of the stuff I was a little coy about and hinting at? I have no idea what most of it...
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When You’re Eighteen with Crippling Writers Block, Music Can Set You Free
Instead of sitting down to absorb the album, I let it trickle in, play it over and over while I read my astronomy textbook, when I doodle in my journal hoping to come up with story ideas for my...
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Moonchild Manuscript Sountrack a.k.a. Table of Contents
Music permeates just about everything I write, and I often think of my writing in terms of music. So naturally, a full-length book manuscript is like a full-length album. A concept album, perhaps. This...
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