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  Thoughts on Nature

  by Larry Sceurman Technology is a double-edged sword. We need it to sustain and prosper in the world today. At the same time, it puts a wedge between us and nature, the very essence of our soul. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein…

  14 Oct 2023
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  Food, Academia and Television

  Since I’m unemployed, I decided to join my local public library’s book club. The adult services librarian sent me the book list, and I ordered The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton from The Parisian Phoenix Storefront at Bookshop.org. The next meeting is at 2 p.m. on October…

  10 Oct 2023
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  Thoughts on Disability as DEI

  I mentioned in a previous post that we did not reach the finals of the Independent Book Publisher Association’s Innovative Voices Fellowship. The finalists included I believe 20 different publishers, all with either BIPOC or LGTBQIA+ voices. No one among them had a disability. The five winners were announced, and…

  5 Oct 2023
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  A day to #GrowWithGoogle

  Yesterday I had the serendipitous fortune to attend two session with Joshua Miller, Pennsylvania’s Digital Coach for Grow with Google. Google has partnered with Main Street America to find certain downtown markets that could benefit from digital coaches that introduce small business people to Google’s tools and how to use…

  26 Sep 2023
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  Writing Books that Inspire Us

  Perhaps “Writing Books that Inspire Us” is not the right title for this one, but “writing books that inspire me” sounds so pretentious. If you’re a regular around here, you might want to skip to the next paragraph as I’m going to cover some basic information you already know. I…

  23 Aug 2023
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  The Beauty of Wow Moments

  By Larry Sceurman, author of Death of Big Butch and the short story collection Coffee in the Morning. Inspired by conversations at the Parisian Phoenix tent at Disability Pride Lehigh Valley Buy Larry’s books from Amazon here. We all have WOW moments. Most of us have had wow moments when…

  19 Aug 2023
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  What is Critical Theory? From Chumbawamba to Barbie

  On the Parisian Phoenix blog this week, while promoting Lehigh Valley Disability Pride and the latest book we released, Ralph Greco Jr.’s Writing Dirty Words, I wrote a post about the gentleman who decided to bombard one of our Instagram posts with vitriolic posts about how our book Not an…

  26 Jul 2023
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  News from the Local Library

  Someone in my family has served on the board of trustees for Mary Meuser Memorial Library since roughly 2008 missing only one year-ish. I have returned to the board as of 2023. We recently resumed our in-person meetings post-Covid and this one (which I attended in pajamas because I forgot…

  12 Jun 2023
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  Poetry is Stupid; Change My Mind

  Today, at the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, Darrell Parry delivered a presentation at the organization’s morning meeting called, “Poetry is Stupid. Change My Mind.” He followed that with an afternoon workshop of what he described as 12 enthusiastic writers participating in various exercises relate to the crafting of poetry…

  20 May 2023
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  Why We Read: I don’t think it’s escape

  We often hear that readers read books to escape, but I think it’s more complex than that. I think, sure, if we had to describe succinctly the allure of reading that would be it. I’ve been a writer for decades. And if I it weren’t for personal health issues*, I…

  21 Mar 2023