The best book I've ever found while working "in the stacks" as a librarian (yes, working at any # of libraries is a gig I've had off and on since I was a teen): "The Book of Inside Information: Money, Health, Success, Marriage, Education, Taxes, etc.". You name it, this book covers the subject. Even the subject of psychology, which has a section detailing how a person you truly care about can, indeed, treat you like a piece of shit if only so you can reject them because the target of your caring is convinced that he or she is "unlovable." Interesting. So damn near everything or anything I may know about finances or taxes (save for not being an educator so I can make more money, really. . .) is either from my brother, the successful investment banker & financial planner or this particular book. Please get it, Litch. Shoot, there's even a section on how to deal with dogs (especially an angry dog, which is the only section I cared about in the "Pets" section). The book is "written" by a multitude of authors and is produced, officially, "By the Editors and Experts of Bottom Line." I truly believe there is no better book on this planet and that every logical or illogical person should own a copy. Final point on books and on something you said "shocked" you about me --- that I had never, ever sent out any of my creative work to be considered for publication even when it went against the advice of professors/writers like Mary Gaitskill. I am, officially, over that "hump" given this offer from Dr. Mahoney to submit a piece for the SCMLA Journal. Even if it's rejected, it's cool as I'm confident a piece on Zora Neale Hurston someone will interest another editor. I feel so good & confident and must credit, among other things, the Full Moon---the most amazing and beautiful things always happen to be as a result of the FM. I must have done something to somebody somewhere so as 2 earn some good karma vibes(?!?!?). And even though I left him a letter that he says he will now treasure, I HAD 2 have a face 2 face w/Claude today at Half-Price Books. Gave him a big hug & asked, "Dude: like what made u save this book of Zora's Collected Letters for ME?" This is what I get 4 "running my mouth" as he recalled my telling him of the paper I had written on her 4 poet Tony Hoagland's class. And it just so happened he was saddled w/the task of unpacking the latest shipment of brand new books when he came across it and DECIDED: "This book is FOR Susan Howard." I told Claude he'll never, ever know just how special that was and how so totally "ON TIME" his instincts were, esp. when I told him of how just HOURS before I had received that email from Dr. Mahoney and had COMMITTED (and I do so fear commitment --- toward all things, it sometimes seems) to writing a piece on Zora for the SCMLA Journal. He was amazed per "What a coincidence!". But I told him, "Dude: nothing is a coincidence." Some of the many pagans who work at Half-Price Books nodded in agreement when they heard me say that. Now I've got 2 get back 2 work. A friend and former coworker from my Atlanta Journal days, Valerie Boyd, wrote a recent bio on Zora and i found it awfully arrogant when, on her dedication page, Valerie wrote, "To Zora Neale Hurston, for choosing me." Now I understand precisely what Valerie in writing that and I must give her a call now as a result (will be quoting from her and her book in my piece on Zora). I, too, am one of Zora's "daughters" (as Alice Walker likes to say)and maybe I'm that by way of voudou, by way of the Ph.D. or maybe just by naming the main character in "The Black Woman Problem in Alaska" after her. OK: forgive me as it's a black woman's thang & maybe you can't understand it. . . But Perhaps u can understand this, Litch: "I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands." --- Zora Neale Hurston.
Please get "The Book of Inside Information: Money, Health, Success, Marriage, Education, Taxes, etc
"The Book of Inside Information: Money, Health, Success, Marriage, Education, Taxes, etc.". You name it, this book covers the subject. Even the subject of psychology, which has a section detailing how a person you truly care about can, indeed, treat you like a piece of shit if only so you can reject them because the target of your caring is convinced that he or she is "unlovable."
Interesting.
So damn near everything or anything I may know about finances or taxes (save for not being an educator so I can make more money, really. . .) is either from my brother, the successful investment banker & financial planner or this particular book. Please get it, Litch. Shoot, there's even a section on how to deal with dogs (especially an angry dog, which is the only section I cared about in the "Pets" section). The book is "written" by a multitude of authors and is produced, officially, "By the Editors and Experts of Bottom Line."
I truly believe there is no better book on this planet and that every logical or illogical person should own a copy.
Final point on books and on something you said "shocked" you about me --- that I had never, ever sent out any of my creative work to be considered for publication even when it went against the advice of professors/writers like Mary Gaitskill. I am, officially, over that "hump" given this offer from Dr. Mahoney to submit a piece for the SCMLA Journal. Even if it's rejected, it's cool as I'm confident a piece on Zora Neale Hurston someone will interest another editor. I feel so good & confident and must credit, among other things, the Full Moon---the most amazing and beautiful things always happen to be as a result of the FM. I must have done something to somebody somewhere so as 2 earn some good karma vibes(?!?!?).
And even though I left him a letter that he says he will now treasure, I HAD 2 have a face 2 face w/Claude today at Half-Price Books. Gave him a big hug & asked, "Dude: like what made u save this book of Zora's Collected Letters for ME?"
This is what I get 4 "running my mouth" as he recalled my telling him of the paper I had written on her 4 poet Tony Hoagland's class. And it just so happened he was saddled w/the task of unpacking the latest shipment of brand new books when he came across it and DECIDED: "This book is FOR Susan Howard."
I told Claude he'll never, ever know just how special that was and how so totally "ON TIME" his instincts were, esp. when I told him of how just HOURS before I had received that email from Dr. Mahoney and had COMMITTED (and I do so fear commitment --- toward all things, it sometimes seems) to writing a piece on Zora for the SCMLA Journal. He was amazed per "What a coincidence!". But I told him, "Dude: nothing is a coincidence." Some of the many pagans who work at Half-Price Books nodded in agreement when they heard me say that.
Now I've got 2 get back 2 work. A friend and former coworker from my Atlanta Journal days, Valerie Boyd, wrote a recent bio on Zora and i found it awfully arrogant when, on her dedication page, Valerie wrote, "To Zora Neale Hurston, for choosing me." Now I understand precisely what Valerie in writing that and I must give her a call now as a result (will be quoting from her and her book in my piece on Zora). I, too, am one of Zora's "daughters" (as Alice Walker likes to say)and maybe I'm that by way of voudou, by way of the Ph.D. or maybe just by naming the main character in "The Black Woman Problem in Alaska" after her. OK: forgive me as it's a black woman's thang & maybe you can't understand it. . .
But Perhaps u can understand this, Litch:
"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.
Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows,
with a harp and a sword in my hands." --- Zora Neale Hurston.