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Ciji Ware Steps Back Into HistoryNovelist and GB Radio Show guest Ciji Ware celebrates the release of her historical fiction novel "A Race to Splendor" in grand fashion with a costume party celebrating San Francisco in the early 1900s.
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Ciji Ware
Ciji Ware is an impressive woman. She's a Harvard graduate, a radio host, an Emmy Award winning TV producer and celebrated author. She explains her new historical fiction novel and how its lessons can help everyone learn to survive a disaster.
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Joel SelvinMusic critic Joel Selvin looks back at the Summer of Love and examines its legacy.
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A Byrd In San FranciscoBy: Camilla McGuinn MACWORLD 2010-GEEKS COMMUNICATINGDuring the early hours of January 27th, we watched from our balcony as the Queen Victoria glided through the fog under the Golden Gate Bridge for its maiden port call in San Francisco at Pier 35.After one last meal a Table 18, goodbyes were said to the staff and to our new friends, then we caught a taxi to the Nob Hill condo we had...
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Day 25: With a Little Help From My FriendsRoz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. After 11 years as a management consultant, she embarked on a new life of adventure by rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. Her unlikely transformation from office worker to ocean rower, described with humor and soul-baring honesty in her blogs, captivated a worldwide audience. Roz is now...
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On the road with a "new" book...Just got back from a book tour that took me from my home town, San Francisco, to DC to New Orleans for the American Library Association convention...and what a time we had! I may have reached my all time record: I signed 125 copies of a reissue of Midnight on Julia Street --set in NOLA--in forty minutes!To restore myself, I repaired immediately to one of my favorite French Quarter eateries: The...
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An Author's Work is Never Done
As some of you Growing Bolder radio listeners know, I've been touting the virtues of simplifying surroundings (while keeping what matters most) for a couple of years now since my book RIGHTSIZING YOUR LIFE was published in 2007. My father, who was also a writer (probably best known as script writer for the radio classic "One Man's Family" for 14 years), used to say with a laugh, "A writer doesn't...
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Joel Selvin - Celebrated Rock JournalistHe was the music journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle when Hendrix, Joplin and Jefferson Airplane hit the scene. He came through Summer of Love alive and enlightened. What went wrong in the '60s? What was cool? Joel Selvin tells it like it was!
