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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: “Fragments of Time” by Snigdha Agrawal
I’m delighted that my review of Snigdha Agrawal’s book, Fragments of Time, (Memoirs) was published on LatinosUSA – English Edition on April 3, 2025! Here is part of the review. The rest follows on the link below. Fragments of Time: Memoirs (Notion Press, February 11, 2025) is an inspiring legacy…
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News Break! AI Robot Barbie Sues Disney!
Thank you, Nolcha Fox for this breaking news on LatinosUSA-English Edition today! We definitely must keep up with AI Robot Barbie and her antics. She has come a long way since her humble beginnings at Mattel. She’s been “every girl’s dream since forever!” In 1959, I was 8 years old…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: “Coming Home” by Smitha Vishwanath
Smitha Vishwanath posted that her book Coming Home is two years old this week, so I thought I would republish my review of it, which I published on MasticadoresUSA in September 2023. The Epigraph Poem for Coming HomeI dare to make mistakes I dare to ask for helpI dare to…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: “Sunflower Tanka” by Robbie Cheadle & Colleen M. Chesebro
I was delighted to read this anthology of tanka, tanka prose, and experimental tanka called Sunflower Tanka. The theme “Into the Light” and the stunning cover photo by Robbie Cheadle drew me to this 2024 collection. Because I haven’t written many tanka, I decided to make this anthology my tanka…
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Books I’ve been reading …Wordy Blurbs …
Now that I’ve caught up on scheduling publications for MasticadoresUSA, FEED THE HOLY, and LatinosUSA-English Edition, and I’ve promoted my new book The Lost Book of Zeroth, and I’ve finished cooking meals ahead, I can boost some cool books I’ve been reading. Here is one collection of short reviews. More…
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There is help for chatbots suffering anxiety….
Today a friend emailed me this link about help available for anxious chatbots. Mindfulness activities help chatbots alleviate stress they experience after reading news about crimes, wars, accidents, and other topics that upset humans. https://www.drugs.com/news/chatbots-show-signs-anxiety-study-finds-124151.html In my latest speculative collection of poems and stories about humanoid AI robots suffering the…
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I’m grateful for Dawn Pisturino’s Review of Too Much Fun To Be Legal!
Thank you so much, Dawn, for reading and reviewing Too Much Fun To Be Legal, a poetry collaboration by Nolcha Fox and me. Your interest and support means the world to us….. Dear readers, I’m enjoying the reception of my latest book with Alien Buddha Press: The Lost Book of…
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Reviews by Lauren Scott
Life is generous. I thought I found these reviews Lauren Scott wrote for the first time this evening while exploring people’s blogs. Then I saw that I had already commented. I don’t think I reblogged this post. However, I appreciated her review of my first poetry collection, Three-Penny Memories: A…
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So Grateful for Thoughtful Reviews of The Lost Book of Zeroth!
Today, I was delighted to read two reviews of my new book. The first one I saw is by Cindy Georgakas on Unique Times. In this post, she also reblogs a poem she wrote for MasticadoresUSA. You will appreciate the sentiments in her poem, which addresses the fear of diversity…
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World Encephalitis Day: February 22, 2025
Encephalitis is a brain inflammation that can accompany viral infections, such as measles. There are different forms of encephalitis, but my experience was with measles encephalitis in 1958, when I was 6 going on 7. A few days after contracting measles, my legs gave out, and I lost my ability…
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