Millionaire's Companion Inherits Crusade
Laura Winston and Ben Weingart, right, with President Kennedy in 1962 They breakfasted together at five every morning, reading the...
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- May 12, 2018
- 3 min
Motherhood Myth
There are as many ways to be a mother as there are women. If mothers try to imitate the parenting style of others, they will fail and...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- May 12, 2018
- 3 min
Motherhood Myth
There are as many ways to be a mother as there are women. If mothers try to imitate the parenting style of others, they will fail and...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- May 1, 2018
- 2 min
Tolstoy Doesn't Judge in Anna Karenina
“I don’t understand anything! Today girls want to do as they like, they tell their mothers nothing.” I am agog when I read lines such as...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Apr 24, 2018
- 3 min
Myth of Motherhood
There are as many ways to be a mother as there are women. If mothers try to imitate the parenting style of others, they will fail and...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Apr 22, 2018
- 2 min
How Journalism Improves Your Fiction
Working as a reporter helps your writing in three ways: accuracy, practice, and camaraderie. Have you ever read a news story that gets...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Apr 14, 2018
- 1 min
First Cuckoo
I heard my first cuckoo, harbinger of spring, this week! My pear trees are blossoming. #Cuckoo #peartree
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Apr 12, 2018
- 1 min
Call for Book Clubs
Invite me for book club discussions of my novel, Turn On, Tune Out. Reading and writing a book are solitary endeavors communal in nature....
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Apr 10, 2018
- 1 min
E-Book or Paper?
Buy Turn On, Tune Out, available in both formats.
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Apr 9, 2018
- 1 min
"Ready Player One"
Inhabited trailer homes are piled on top of one another in metal junkyards. This image is burned into my brain though I saw this Steven...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Apr 7, 2018
- 2 min
Author Spotlight
Who should read Turn On, Tune Out If you find your life bombarded by information and noise, read about this musician’s challenge to quiet...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Apr 2, 2018
- 3 min
I Am a Writer; I Am a Businesswoman
Imagination creates possibilities. When I wrote my novel, Turn On, Tune Out, I used my imagination. I became acquainted with a...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Mar 31, 2018
- 3 min
Becoming Fearless
“I’m lighting a candle for you that you get your book published.” Every time I telephoned my mother in New York from Los Angeles, San...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Mar 30, 2018
- 1 min
Samir by Leonie Postma
Read Samir and shudder. The futuristic novel, Samir, instills a promised unease and fear in the reader. Leonie Postma’s debut novel opens...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Mar 22, 2018
- 1 min
Renovation
Outside, the wood stacks harboured nails From the old house Standing proud. Inside, the metal survived the fires of necessity But not my...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Mar 18, 2018
- 1 min
"Turn On, Tune Out": Buy It Now
Buy and read my novel, Turn On, Tune Out: https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Tune-CYNTHIA-ADINA-KIRKWOOD/dp/9899987301/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Mar 11, 2018
- 3 min
"The Unity Game" by Leonora Meriel
Leonora Meriel deftly weaves together three separate stories in “The Unity Game,” so that all the characters become a part of the same...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Mar 7, 2018
- 2 min
"The Mandibles" By Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver riveted me in the world of “The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047” when U.S. dollars lose monetary value and life becomes...
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@ CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD
- Feb 25, 2018
- 1 min
Black Panther Moves Me to Tears of Pride
T'Challa rises to the throne of Wakanda, a self-imposed isolated, technologically superior African nation, but his claim is challenged by...
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