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Oct.11.2012
In College I majored in Romance Languages, French, Spanish and Italian. I love languages and I love traveling and each time I visit a new country I study the language. When I lived on the Big Island of Hawaii I taught French and Spanish at Parker School. When I lived ...
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Jul.06.2012
Loving and Writing Together by Maryanne Raphael
An old picture of Lennox and me sitting at the beach in Kingston, Jamaica .brought me back. We are both in our early twenties and madly in love. We are both writers and decide to write our love story together. We each...
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Oct.23.2011
Many years ago when my son Raphael was 8 years old, we were living in a big old Gothic house on the Big Island of Hawaii. My son loved Halloween and spent months choosing the best costume. He was going trick or treatng with our next door neighbor's boy his age. My friends invited...
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Apr.10.2011
I just got home from the hospital after major surgery when I received an email from my only son who was in Thailand with his wife and two children. He was taking part in a conference and brought his family for a vacation. The only trouble was the first day they arrived there was a terrible flood...
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Feb.10.2011
I had been living in Haiti for six months and my friend Big Bad John was looking after my apartment.
I returned home unexpected and found a beautiful woman sleeping in my bed. The next morning she introduced herself as Ginny. She explained that she was a friend of my friend Big Bad John...
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Oct.21.2010
One of my favorite memories of my father was the autumn when I was 15 and living with my parents and five brothers and four sisters in the little town of Waverly, Ohio at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The trees that lined the narrow streets had all turned a brilliant...
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Nov.11.2009
The Revolution is being televised, blogged, emailed and tweeted. The world-wide Revolution in Communication and Information is speeding us towards more and more Revolutions. As we travel the air and surf the internet we are exposed to new thoughts, new methods and new people.
In the sixties...
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Oct.22.2009
My Favorite city, Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is my favorite city. My husband and I visited it on our honeymoon and ended up spending two of the happiest and saddest times of our lives. When we arrived, the sun was shinning, the palm trees were waltzing, the sky was a deep blue and the ocean a...
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Sep.28.2008
In Dreams From My Father, Obama wrote of his efforts to understand his family, the leaps through time and the collision of cultures hoping to shine light on the question of identity and race in the American experience. He described the “underlying struggle between worlds of plenty and worlds of...
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Sep.21.2008
When I took a course on the psychology of women at Los Angeles City College, I wrote about the Anais Nin I knew. My professor, Dr. Eve Jones, told me, "If you know Anais you must know Ken Merrill.” When I said I had not met Ken who was a student in another of her classes she introduced the...
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About Maryanne
When I was five years old I created a story that my grandfather typed and mailed to St Anthony Messenger. The magazine promptly gave me my first rejection slip. I continued writing all my life. Was editor of the literary magazine at Ohio University. Won a...