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Monthly Archives: May 2014
National September 11 Memorial Museum and Commercialism
Beyond all of the Missing Persons photos online and all over the city, one of the main things I remember was a t-shirt stand selling memorabilia. A t-shirt stand that sold low-end t-shirts that (beyond the ghetto-fabulousness of them) caught my eye. A t-shirt stand that was just a simple card table set up along all the dust and rubble, about 3 blocks from Ground Zero, and close to my then office. It stood out among the rest. Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, aaliyah, consumerism, cultural, memories, museum, National September 11 Memorial Museum, never forget, nyc, tacky
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My Faith in Writing
I have faith that when my dark moments arise (as they always do when least expected) like an unwanted forest fire, destroying everything in my view, and I begin to choke on life, my thoughts can turn to my beacons of hope, the writers before me who found their way out of self-destruction and slay the psychological demons one more time. Continue reading
Posted in Literacy, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged book publishing, faith, faith as a writer, literature, oates, stephen earley jordan, stephen king, writing with purpose
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