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Books to take to the beach.Writers Pick Summer Reads

I’m taking the following article to my English class today. George Orwell wrote it in the late ’40’s. It’s as relevant today. As an English teacher, I’m especially aware of the difference between disemboweled language and thinking (the language of the masses) and language empowered with awareness, precision, and truth.
One of my guiding principles […]

A wonderful graphic poem created by my friend Derek, a San Francisco architect, tennis player, sweetheart, and the first man I ever met online dating! That was 7 years ago. You never know who or how you’re going to meet a soul mate.
Open it up, dear readers, promise it’s worth a click!
http://www.flirtysomethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/einstein.doc

Hank L., a great friend to many and patriarch of a long-standing Belmont Shore
family, passed away a couple of weeks ago at 86. Hank’s life was rich with stories, and his memorial service was a storytelling session of the most sublime kind. Friends and family took turns at the mic and told impromptu stories of […]

Check these out. They’re my first videos, and they show it! But I think they’re funky, if nothing else…You tell me…
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=flirtysomething
It was a lot of fun making them, learning iMovie especially. Definitely want to make more. Next time to focus on simple storytelling, stories of online dating engendered adventures. Any storytellers out there?
Ultimately, I’d […]

Okay. There’s a lot of junk in the junkyard. A lot of Anna Nicole, Britney, Lindsay, Paris. Distraction. Noise. Songs without melody or lyrics. Movies without story. Blogs without end…
There’s also a lot of good stuff happening. Received a flyer in the mail yesterday for
Ode
a magazine “for intelligent optimists.” Check it out:
http://www.odemagazine.com
Think […]

Just for fun, check this out. Scroll to the bottom and click on the Daily Show clip. It’s hilarious.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/archives/111675.asp
It almost makes up for the fact that The Daily Show is running Match.com’s latest ad campaign…”Go Ahead and Look,” yet another shameless attempt to recast Match as the “new” dating site that it isn’t.

One more thing, before I put on my teacher’s hat and get ready for class…
A year and half, my retirement pension, and countless moments of entreprenurial angst later, I’m happy to say that flirtysomething is still alive, in fact it’s gathering steam.
We just released the flirtysomething Times over the weekend. It’s our online magazine and […]