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Posted by on Sep 4, 2012 in Blog, Personal | 7 comments

Meeting Monte — How a Chance Encounter Inspired Me To Get Healthy

 

Monte at BARGE

Monte (August 2012)

 

This is the story of a man I barely know and how that man changed my life.  He died of cancer in October 202o.  I was blessed to be able to speak at his funeral in Seattle and tell others how wonderful he was.  R.I.P.

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Posted by on Aug 23, 2012 in Blog, Book Reviews | 2 comments

Remembering “Doctor Love” — Leo Buscaglia

 

 

 

All of us have the capacity to perform courageous acts and be courageous.  Our challenge is to avoid taking the easy road in life and pursuing the paths of greatest resistance.  To do the things that are the most difficult.  To stand for the things that are least popular.  To fight for the things that are noble and good.

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Posted by on Aug 2, 2012 in Blog, Book Reviews | 0 comments

An Intellectual Lion: Gore Vidal (1925-2012)

 

Gore Vidal Photo

 

Like his more recent now deceased contemporaries Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and William F. Buckley and in the mold of great thinkers of yesteryear such as H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, and even Mark Twain, he was a fixture on the intellectual circuit.  He basked in the spotlight in a time when writers were afforded the same celebrity as rock stars.  One colleague pined, “he was the man who knew everyone.”

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