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Half a Decade Later: A Letter to My Mother
Hamlet
To Brie or Not to Brie
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday than by parodying his most famous line.
Well, I can’t say for sure it is Shakespeare’s birthday. That fabled baptismal record could be just that: a fable. But let’s play along and say today is the playwright’s 462nd birth anniversary. And, as the story goes, his 410th death anniversary.
What I can say for sure is that I’m not the first person to parody Shakespeare’s most famous line. Who knows, maybe Shakespeare himself did it after Hamlet premiered in 1600.
On World Tourism Day
While thinking about a release date for my debut novel, The Superiority Contest, I discovered there is such a thing as World Tourism Day. And that is today, September 27.
World Tourism Day would have been an appropriate occasion to release a world traveler’s tale, but the novel wasn’t ready, and it’s more important to get that right. Over my long adulthood I have learnt that Hamlet was right when he said, “The readiness is all.”
In this discussion with his bestie, my favorite literary character was referring to his impending duel with Laertes, which could possibly end in his death. (Which it does. The play can’t go on forever.)
Continue readingSeven Years Later
Today marks the seventh anniversary of the day one of my oldest, most cherished dreams came true: the dream of becoming an author.
My first book, Pioneer Boulevard: Los Angeles Stories, was released on June 29, 2013. I chose this day because it was the only weekend my older nephew/godson could make it from Canada, where he was an undergrad at Waterloo. Continue reading
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