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Keka

Keka
Location
Arizona, USA
Birthday
March 10
Bio
Cynthia Dagnal-Myron is an award-winning former reporter for both the Chicago Sun Times and Arizona Daily Star whose articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Salon, Working Mother, Orion and many others. During her Sun Times years, she traveled with and interviewed the top rockers, film stars and other celebrities of the 70’s and 80’s. And dated Arnold Schwarzenegger. Once. Her latest book, "The Keka Collection," is available at Amazon.com http://amzn.com/1453845763 and Barnes and Noble--Kindle and Nook versions available. Her latest short story, Deadline, is a Kindle book availabled here: http://bit.ly/10pqtoV

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JULY 3, 2011 11:51AM

The London "Rock and Roll" Summers: 48 Lancaster Gate

48 Lancaster Gate

My London summer "home away from home" 

Bless Google Earth…there it is:   48 Lancaster Gate, London W2 3NA, UK.

It all changed there.  My whole life.  My outlook on life.  In fact, the rather prosaic life I’d been living gave way to the fast lane/… Read full post »

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JUNE 12, 2011 12:32PM

The World According to Ebert (Yes, it's YOUR turn Roger)

Ebert and Meyer 

 The Roger I knew...with producer Russ Meyer

Okay, let’s go there, finally.

Why does Roger Ebert “tweet” my posts?

Easy but sincere answer?  Damned if I know. 

Not so easy and scarier answer?   I think he still remembers that tiny littl/… Read full post »

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JUNE 5, 2011 11:49AM

Horse Sense: Oprah Replacement Therapy

BIG boy Gulliver

Gulliver:  My Oprah Replacement Therapist

I had tried to think of ways to get out of this thing all week. 

This "thing" was an Epona workshop designed to teach volunteers at Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary to handle their most traumatized rescues. 

And I… Read full post »

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APRIL 10, 2011 1:15PM

Sweet Secrets, Ancestral Whispers

 

Mattie Russell

 Mattie Russell my maternal great-grandmother

They never mentioned him.   

Never uttered his name, except to tell me his name.  Once.   And only after I had grown up and was apparently ready to hear at least that much.

If I uttered the name, silence fell… Read full post »

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JANUARY 10, 2011 12:07PM

Sheriff Dupnik--A Different Type of Hero

While others quibble about whether the shooter here in Tucson was influenced by politics or not, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has decided it’s time to stop splitting hairs.  

I was stunned and inspired by his bravery in giving voice to fears and frustrations I have felt, and written about… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 10, 2010 12:24PM

White Men With Guns--Reconstruction Redux

 

obama michelle apes

I saw it.  But I couldn’t believe it.

There I was, in a fast food drive through, behind a man whose back window decal, in small white letters, sent me a message that sent a chill down my spine—just as he’d hoped it would, no doubt. Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 3:41PM

The Empty Nest Blues...NOT!

 

My BIG Baby
 

 

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 My baby left me.

And it wasn’t so bad.

We’re talking about my real baby here.   My baby girl, Thandi, who moved across town with her boyfriend last week—she’s 23 now, so the “baby” thing is kinda ridiculous, of/… Read full post »

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AUGUST 29, 2010 12:05PM

The North Rim Chronicles, Part II

No Photoshop tricks here: the twilight view from my favorite bench near the cabin.

This...I have no words for...

This...I have no words for...


Keka "does" Ken Burns--BADLY--with help from Aaron Copland.  Click the YouTube logo to watch full screen, HD.

BEING THERE

During the 12 mile… Read full post »

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AUGUST 1, 2010 12:34PM

Living on a Prayer--Homeless Heroine

Only once have I come even a wee bit close to feeling really, truly “impoverished.”

I was a young newly single mom with too many bills left over from her ex’s excesses, a bankruptcy pending to fix that, no bank account, a teaching job which barely covered rent and food… Read full post »

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JULY 25, 2010 11:23AM

The "EX" Factor--the Ties that Bind

We are so different now, he and I.  

He is not the man I once couldn’t keep my hands off of.   The man I married and had a child with.   It astounds me how we can be so intensely “in love” and fall so completely out of it, later.… Read full post »

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JULY 12, 2010 9:42AM

The Mother I Never "Knew"

I’ve been asked why having profiled friends, other family and a beloved pet here, I’ve yet to write about my mother.    Easy answer.   I didn’t “know” her.   

I knew that she loved me.   Not by what she said but by what she d… Read full post »

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JULY 6, 2010 8:20AM

Alice in Limboland

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This is a strange one.  But…follow along.   There’ll be a test on this later.  In life.   So let me begin with a BIG question:

Why…are you here? 

Seriously.  I’m asking.

What if…there were no lover, no spouse, no fam… Read full post »

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JUNE 27, 2010 12:20PM

Kim Milford: A Hollyweird "Love" Story

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After decades of searching, two days ago I found, on YouTube, a clip from a movie which aired on ABC in 1973.  The lead actor was a friend I loved dearly. 

It was an “accident,” my finding this clip.  But of course, there are no accidents.   And when I… Read full post »

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JUNE 20, 2010 10:47AM

My Baby Daddy--A Father's Day Tribute

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He was the most gorgeous thing I’d ever seen.  And having  been an entertainment reporter for a “major metropolitan daily,” I wasn’t easily impressed by then.

He sat, smiling beatifically across from me at what was arguably one of the most macabre din… Read full post »

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JUNE 13, 2010 3:27PM

Hekua Oya--the winds of "change"

I am a child of Oya.   Or so a Yoruba priest once said.  She is the Yoruba goddess of wind, whirlwinds, hurricanes—she sweeps clean, she changes things.  Her winds can be gentle or they can blow your butt to kingdom come to force the issue.  It’s up to you.

So&he… Read full post »

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JUNE 6, 2010 1:05PM

For Caroline Marie…and all Lone She Wolves…

In her courageous post, Woman of Mystery, Caroline Marie writes:

“…I have friends who don't really know me.  I no longer know how to be emotionally intimate.  I have a social circle, but I am alone.”

I hear ya’, sistah.

I used to say I was “exiled” fo… Read full post »

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MAY 23, 2010 4:02PM

Acting My Age

I’m going to turn down the heat a little bit and just talk about something less controversial this time.

You see…I retire, rather early, in about two weeks. And it tickles me that whenever I tell someone that, s/he says, “Wait—you don’t look old enough to retire!&rdquo… Read full post »

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MAY 16, 2010 4:15PM

Raised on Racism...a survival story

My recent article about Arizona raised some hackles...but also some awareness of the perils of profiling on both sides of the color line.

And it brought back memories, for me, of some of the reasons why I'm not shocked as easily as some about the supposed resurgence of racism in America--now… Read full post »