I am really glad you created this site and wanted to post this article I read that reminded me of Children of the Roses about how divorce impacts adult kids.
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Month: June, 2011
David Mamet takes a U-turn
The new book by David Mamet, “The Secret Knowledge: On The Dismantling of American Culture” offers a most interesting confessional of sorts that reveals a new perspective on show business personalities that are lumped together under the category of “Hollywood liberals.”
Mamet’s new book reveals a fault line that might be opening on the so-called mindset of tinsel town’s noisy band of activists of progressive persuasion who raise their voices and open their pocketbooks to politicians who cater to their point of view.
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Making Your Novel Picks
With all the traditional filtering systems of the past that help determine the quality of a book diminishing at an accelerating pace, I have been thinking a lot about how a serious writer of non-genre fiction, meaning novels and short stories, will gain a loyal audience.
By serious novels, I mean those stand alone novels that told stories about characters that offered insight into the human condition, and broadened our knowledge of the times we live in and the world around us, and introduced us to authors who thrilled us with the richness of their imagination and the skill of their prose.
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Just the Six of Us
We are six of us staying now in the house in Beaulieu. It is not an easy task to get six people corralled into doing a single thing, except dining. My son Jonathan and his wife are heavy duty athletes and demand strenuous activity.
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Where Have All The Topless Women Gone?
Twenty five years ago when I first visited Saint Tropez, almost all the women on the beaches were topless. It didn’t matter how old they were, it was standard. By and large, if memory serves and these images, I can assure you, are engraved in my mind, there were many many gorgeous females.
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iPhone Tragedy
A major tragedy, perhaps worse than death itself. David’s friend Anthony jumped into the pool accompanied by his constant attachment, his iPhone. The instrument could not be resuscitated and is lying under a bed of rice hoping that this treatment will revive it.
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Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This
The weather here in Beaulieu reminds me of fine wine, delicious on the tongue, warmth for the heart and soul. After enduring a week of rain during our first week here, the weather has turned this into a wonderland. Last night we had dinner on Paloma beach.
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10 Ways to Save Your Marriage from Divorce
Going through a divorce is never fun and surely, you want to know how to save your marriage from divorce. Below, we are going to give you 10 ways to save your marriage from divorce.
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Top 10 Ugliest Celebrity Divorces of 2011
We live in a celebrity obsessed culture. The images and information we are spoon-fed create an image of perfection. Celebrity couples who are living perfect lives in perfect houses, driving perfect cars and eating perfect food. When celebrity marriages end in divorce we are even more intrigued because it is the point where the image we had is shattered. 2010-11 was a year of celebrity divorces, ten of which are listed below.
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Cause for Divorce? Women Lie About Their Age.
It seems like there are more reasons for divorce these days then there ever used to be. One cause for divorce – women lie about their age.
Husbands tend to find this to be a less than desirable quality in a woman. Some women have multiple reasons for lying about their age. Here are just 10 of them.
Top Reasons Men Want a Divorce
When those divorce papers are served by the husband, it is too late to learn the reasons men want a divorce. Before those divorce papers are served and while there is still some time to save your marriage, you need to learn the top reasons men want a divorce. You are in luck, because today, we are going to give you a list of reasons why some men ask for a divorce. Take note that the reason all depends on the person and relationship, but we are going to give you some common reasons.
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Top 7 Reasons Women Want a Divorce
It is hard to understand women, but many guys try hard to. We are going to try to help you out by giving you the 7 top reasons women want a divorce from their husband …
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Who Gets the Pet in Your Divorce?
Many may not realize it, but the family pet is a lot like a child, whether it is a reptile, cat, dog, monkey or any other pet. While child custody agreements are top priority in a divorce, the pet is also up there in priority. The question is “who gets the pet in your divorce?” Well, who do you think should get the pet, the husband or the wife?
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A Painter’s Paradise
I finished the McCullough book on Americans in Paris. Great. Now I’m reading David Mamet’s new book about his reasons for abandoning liberalism. He’s not as good an essayist as a playwright, but his book is well worth the time.
I’ve been posting stuff on various writing networks. It amazes me how many people out there are writing fiction. The challenge, of course, is how they will find readers. There will be millions of books out there in cyberspace. I will live with the illusion that quality work will find its audience.
If the world is going to pot, you would never know it on the Côte d’Azur . The Russians are here en masse and the yachts seem to fill the little bays. It’s easy to see why this place was a painter’s paradise.…
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Food, Sunshine, Gossip, and the Glorious Lifestyle
Old friends whom I met 11 years ago when Sunny and I made a valiant attempt to learn French have surfaced from my postings that we are in the neighborhood. Mitch and Michelle have found us and we had dinner with them the other night. Over the weekend we had dinner with my landlord JP and his Suzy and our friends from Denmark. We met E at the school and later his lovely wife. E and I have something in common. We never did learn French and both of us tried like hell.
As you can see from my posts France, especially the Riviera, is all about food, sunshine, gossip and glorious lifestyle. Give the French credit. They know how to live. We’ve been here two weeks and they’ve had two Monday holidays, meaning three day weekends.
My son David will be rolling in today. I hope he can find the place which is tucked away out of site on a hillside.…
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Every Knock a Boost
Yet again the mainstream media cabal against Sarah Palin has come a cropper. From my own cursory reading of her e-mails while Governor of Alaska, she comes out as a hard working executive and concerned wife and mother, valiantly and quite successfully juggling her obligations to her family and public office.
As a supportive admirer of women who work and aspire, I can’t help concluding that Sarah has realized the feminist dream of having it all. It baffles me why she is not celebrated by women for this singular achievement, which could serve as an inspiration for young women seeking to make a difference through public service, and fulfilling their instinctive desire to have children and a stable family life.
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Sunsets from the Terrace
Two nights ago we had dinner at the Voile D’or a lovely hotel in St. Jean Cap Ferrat where we watched the glorious sunset from the terrace. Apparently the actor David Niven lived close by and would come each evening to do the same. Somerset Maugham lived close by as well. Wonder how many young people remember Niven or read the books of Maugham, which were and still are quite wonderful.
As usual we go lost in the maze of Cap Ferrat. Our objective was to find the trail around the Cap that we had walked numerous times during our “schooldays” at the Ecole Francais where we spent a month attempting to master that language.
We stopped the car next to a likely fellow and asked the usual question parlez-vous anglais?
Fluently came the answer. It turned out he was a Brit enjoying a holiday with his wife at the Grand Hotel.…
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The Greater Journey
I’m still reading David McCullough’s The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. It is one of the best books I’ve read in years, beautifully written and exactly the right book for this trip. I’ve fired up Sunny’s Kindle for her to read the same book at the same time. She will love it as well.
The two television sets in the house were not working and had to be replaced. Not that I care since I get all my news via the Internet and it’s all bad anyway. In this part of the world one can live very happily in a non-media dream world.…
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Hi-Tech Living
I’m still having trouble with the hi tech house we rented. But slowly learning to survive. Can’t work the GPS in our new car either, but since we’re staying close to home no problem has arisen. To reach this house requires some gymnastic driving since there are numerous hard round turns. French drivers speed around these corners like mad. But this is the price one pays for being high up with a magnificent view of the little harbor.
We’re beginning to make sense out of the supermarket. One must weight ones fruits and vegetables and get a price sticker ourselves. There is a lot of do-it-yourself stuff living in France, but the produce is remarkably fresh compared to supermarkets in the states.…
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Do Novels Ever End?
A writer’s mind is like a house with a thousand doors, all operated by some pre-tech system that opens and closes as if controlled by something akin to an infrared target line. Apparently, I crossed one of those lines and opened a door somewhere on a top floor of the house.
I now realize that I came back to Beaulieu, which is just a walking distance from Cap Ferrat which was one of the European settings for the The David Embrace, a novel just published exclusively by Amazon.
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