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 | The Graduation Dress and the String of Pearls
This true story, was written to honor my first child my daughter Michelle Komarek, now a mother of three and grandmother of five, who when she was a teenager and the oldest of my six children, uncomplaingly always helped me with her brother and sisters....
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 | The Secrets of My Success
I have published nine volumes of fiction now, and I am working on two more, so I reckon I've learnt a few tricks of the trade. But giving straightforward advice is such an unEnglish and uncool thing to do. So here -for anyone who has ever believed that ...
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 | A Face is Something that Sticks in Mind: Rethinking Smallpox
Everyday I look at a face that puzzled me for decades. The terrible specter of smallpox hung over me, like an episode refusing to die. For my parents, I survived a miracle. Many people have no idea of the panic and fear the smallpox brings to the affect...
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 | The Woman on the Corner
This memoir, written from my Midwestern childhood in the early 1960s, explores the death of my grandfather and the tragic way in which my grandmother had to learn of his emotional unfaithfulness. It pays homage to and tries to understand a woman's forgi...
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 | Cruising with the World Poker Tour Boot Camp
Francis and his assistant/editor/roommate Leigh went for a little cruise to Mexico with the World Poker Tour Boot Camp to improve their poker tournament skills under the tutelage of poker pros Clonie Gowan, Jules Leyser and Rick Fuller. They learned a l...
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 | Different Levels
After my long, often difficult, often gratifying journey of emotional and spiritual recovery, I wrote “Different Levels” to help others come to terms with themselves, with loved ones and with a world they can't often understand. Much of th...
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 | Chopin and the Albino Squirrel
For me, the stages of writing a book follow a definite pattern. ThereÂ’s the initial urge, which is dread (why do you even bother writing these stupid books, youÂ’ll never be any good) and wild happiness (happiness only because the book isnÂ’t written y...
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 | Where Wheels Walk: Starting Over
We (My wife and I) have yet to come to terms with the most defining moment of our life. The enormity of it has overwhelmed us and sent me scurrying down the corporate ladder, then humbled me and turned our days and nights upside down. We are terribly de...
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 | All or Nothing: Self Analysis of a Binge Drinker
I drank from a social to Binge levels that started as a child through to the time I wrote this short. I wanted to write about my relationship with alcohol as it has had a major effect on my life. There aren't many people around me who don't drink, and i...
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 | My Hero, My Dad
I wrote this piece to pay a small tribute to my Father, who always was and will always be a HERO to me. He could not leap tall buildings in a single bound, nor was he stronger than a locomotive, but in his own quiet way he was MY HERO! Dad gave up his w...
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