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Accomplishments: “Angel Juarez” Gets an Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train

Written on September 25, 2009 at 11:38 am, by

I was an Honorable Mention in this contest!

I was an Honorable Mention in this contest!

Yesterday I got an email from Glimmer Train that I received an Honorable Mention designation in their Very Short Fiction Contest.  See my name in PDF!  While this isn’t as life changing as Michelle Woo’s recent news and it doesn’t mean I get published, it surely is bragging rights.  I am told that to get this designation, I had to be in the top 5% of over a thousand entries.

Published: “Miss Independent II: Transcontinental Search”

Written on September 22, 2009 at 3:23 pm, by

Mused - Fall 2009Today is the Autumnal Equinox which just so happens to be the day that Mused – BellaOnline’s Literary Review just released its newest issue…which includes a non-fiction story by me.

Link to Fall 2009 Issue

Direct Link to My Story

You might note that my story title has a “2″. While this story is a stand alone piece, it does follow the theme of finding the meaning of “independent” that began in my previous publication with Mused in Spring 2008 – the original Miss Independent.

ExperienceLA Blog Posts: USC 3-D Football, Running in LA, and Running Around LA

Written on September 14, 2009 at 11:56 am, by

Butterfly by San Gabriel Valley Mission

Butterfly by San Gabriel Valley Mission

Just a couple of highlights from my real blogging/editing gig:
-Football in 3-D: USC v. OSU
(Side Note: Michele Miller’s Wonder Branding features my rant to her about ESPN’s surveying of womening at the event)
-Hit the LA Ground Running: City Sights and Sites
-Quentin Tarantion at Midnight Screening of “Inglourious Basterds”
-Summer Fun on the Cheap: A Case Study
-Dodgers: Fireworks and All you can Eat Seats

Rediscovering “Philosophical Thoughts…”

Written on August 25, 2009 at 7:38 am, by

A year or so ago, I was compiling a list of “philosophical thoughts”.  Just adages or musings I had over the course of time.  I discovered them recently in my move – a printed paper that I used to have on my wall that, for whatever reason lost in time, I removed.  But in reading them again, I found that I agreed with almost all of them.  I bolded my favorites:

1.  You can’t change anyone. When you think you’ve changed someone, it’s really because they themselves want to change.

Blog Posts: Erykah Badu, Ziggy Marley, Gregorio Luke/Diego Rivera

Written on June 11, 2009 at 6:12 pm, by

Diego Rivera artwork from Gregorio Luke Mural event at the Ford Theatre

Diego Rivera artwork from Gregorio Luke Mural event at the Ford Theatre

Just a smattering of blog posts from my other gig:

Been roaming the town with the summer season in starting to be in full swing (though June gloom is also full swing).  So there’s more where all that came from.  I have 3 events I haven’t done write-up’s…

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