THE CAT’S MEOW
FOR WRITERS & READERS EZINE®
A MONTHLY ONLINE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE
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Issue 30, Vol. 07, © MAY 10, 2007, Ezine: ISSN:
2237-65
Magazine
dedicated to: Carman Catalano, Harold Clinton Welch, Pauline Mullé Infranco and
Joseph Infranco.
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IN THIS
ISSUE:
BIRTHDAY
WISHES CORNER!
BEST
POEM OF THE MONTH! CORNER:
“A Memorial Day Message” By Cynthia
Groopman
FROM THE
PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S CORNER
Rosanne Catalano
FROM THE
EXECUTIVE EDITOR’S CORNER
Nancy Currie
OFF THE PRESS!
(Author Book
Releases, Publishing News, Reading Group News
& Calls for Submissions from Publishers)
COFFEE HOUSE 4 POETS & WRITERS CORNER
(Every Month
Published Artistic Talent – New and Established!)
POEMS, SHORT STORIES, STORY ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
By Teresa Del Mastro
“White
Knight”
A Short Story
By Shelly Wiseberg
“Outsider”
“Disorder”
Poetry
By Joan Skura
“Intermission”
A
Short Story
By Carol Roach
“I
Remember Laddie”
“A Fatherless Child”
Story Articles
“The
Essence of Me”
A Poem
“Tea:
A Simple Foundation of Life”
“Room
10”
Story Articles
By Sandra Lee Hoynacki
“For
Time and Eternity”
“Battered
Basin”
“
Poetry
By Pamela Perry Blaine
“The
Princess”
“The
Miracle of Spring”
Story Articles
By Cynthia Groopman
“Joy
Joy Joy”
“The
Evening’s Coolness”
“A
Greeting to the Month of May”
“A
Memorial Day Message”
“Admiring
the Beautiful Flowers of Springtime”
Poetry
By Debby Sorensen Carlson
“You
Are So Living”
A Poem
By R. Thomas Thompson
“Died
– Part 2”
A Serialized
Short Story
By Alan Britt
“Contemplating
Summer”
“Summer
Rains on the Garden”
“The
Lion in the Grass, or Seeing Life as it Really Is”
Poetry
By Bryon D. Howell
“Three
Ain’t Company”
“The
Pits of Hell”
“A
Creepy Collaboration”
Poetry
FEATURE
ARTICLE
By Audrey Frederick,
“We Cannot Take Pet Food for Granted”
HELPFUL
ARTICLES
By Susan Scharfman,
“Vital Facts to Keep Dogs and Cats Alive &
Healthy”
By Charlie Cook
“Should You Give Up On Cold Calling as a Small
Business Marketing Tool?”
By Judy Cullins
“Promote Your Book Online with a Short Article
(Updated)”
By Derek Huizinga
“The Key to Site Exposure”
By Sandra G. Williams
“3 Tips on How To Sell for the Shy and Fearful”
By Gena Hymowech
“The Right to Rewrite: Does Your Editor Have It?”
By Enrico Schaefer
“Domain Name Theft”
By Dale Mazurek
“Anti-Aging For Baby Boomers”
BIRTHDAY WISHES CORNER!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
Barry D. Infranco
Birthday:
May 4th
(we hope you had a happy 57th birthday,
Uncle Barry)!
Marianna D’Onofrio
Birthday:
May 5th, 1992
Mary J. Welch-Palmer
Birthday:
May 19th
May all your birthday wishes come true!
To see your birthday wishes here,
email us with your name (first & last, or just first name) and birth-day
(year is optional)!
BEST POEM OF THE MONTH CORNER!
A Memorial Day Message
By Cynthia Groopman
Abiding in my thoughts
Are the many lessons of courage and bravery
All of you dear soldiers have taught
Cower or hide, you did not do
As you gallantly fought to preserve the Red, White
and Blue
In distant and foreign lands, you did fight;
enabling us to cherish and rejoicefully bask
In freedom’s precious golden light
In the throes of adversity, you did not wince or cry
aloud
As you displayed such heroism standing tall and proud
For in high esteem we cherish and value you,
with deepest appreciation and admiration;
everlasting and true.
Copyright © 2007 Cynthia
Groopman.
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Be sure to read more of Cynthia Groopman’s wonderful poetry and all
about the author
in our Coffee House 4 Poets &
Writers Corner [below]!!
PUBLISHER &
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S CORNER
By Rosanne
Catalano
Hello my
dear readers, and welcome to all our new members! I hope you’re as excited as I am about the warmer weather
finally arriving! Warmth and sun brings peace to my soul, as it always has
during the spring & summer seasons. Which may have something to do with the
fact I was born a week before summer begins J. But I’ll tell you what didn’t bring
peace and contentment to my soul but despondency instead. That was reading an
email last month from The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)!
Normally I shy away from discussing anything even
remotely political here, but what I’m about to tell you could save the lives of
baby harp seals who are being clubbed and/or shot to death on the ice floes of
Canada, and, yes, WE CAN HELP stop the killing of these innocent pups from ever
happening in the future! Let me explain. As I mentioned above, I received an
email last month from The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and was
immensely bereft to read that the cruel Seal Hunt had continued this year…last
year I sent a letter to the Canadian government about stopping their inhumane
killing of seals, and I also contributed some of my hard-earned money to
ProtectSeals™ to help them STOP Canada’s cruel Seal Hunt. It did no good! The
Seal Killing (as I call it) continued this year. From March to April, 80% of
the Canadian seals were bludgeoned to death by men who sanction this by calling
it a way for fishermen to help with their incomes. I’m sure they can find
another way to earn extra income!
Now I love Canada and have dear friends who live in
Canada (they also find the Seal Hunt cruel and inhumane), but I see the Canadian
government is not listening to even their own citizens…122,900 emails to
Canada’s Prime Minister, 78,700 emails to Canada’s Minister of International
Trade, and 18,900 messages sent in support of ENDING Canada’s cruel and
needless commercial seal hunt did no good;
What does Canadian seafood have to do with fishermen
clubbing to death baby harp seals? I’ll tell you what The HSUS told me two years
ago when they first notified me of this travesty, and when I began my fight
alongside The Humane Society of the United States’ and ProtectSeals’™ to end
the cruel and inhumane clubbing of baby seals…
“Seal hunting is an off-season activity conducted by
fishermen from
“Animal and environmental
protection organizations have negotiated for years with the Canadian government
to put an end to its seal hunt—the largest commercial slaughter of marine
mammals in the world. But as the killing and the cruelty of the hunt escalate, it
is clear
“It is the connection between
commercial fisheries and the seal hunt, and the economics of both industries,
which makes a boycott of Canadian seafood product a logical next step in ending
the annual hunt. And it is consumers and businesses that purchase Canadian
seafood who have the power to convince the Canadian government and individual
fishermen to stop the slaughter of baby seals.”
Fast facts about the Seal
Hunt:
- Fully 95% of the harp seals killed
over the past five years have been under three months of age. At the time
of slaughter, many of these defenseless pups had not yet eaten their first
solid food or taken their first swim—they literally had no escape from the
"hunters."
- Video evidence clearly shows sealers
routinely dragging conscious pups across the ice with boathooks, shooting
seals and leaving them to suffer in agony, and even skinning seals alive.
- In 2001, an independent team of
veterinary experts studied
- Over the past three years, nearly a
million seal pups have been slaughtered for their fur.
- The last time sealers killed this
many seals—in the 1950s and '60s—close to two-thirds of the harp seal
population was wiped out.
- Scientists around the world have
condemned the Canadian government's management plan for harp seals as
reckless, unsustainable, and irresponsible.
–The Humane Society of the
Please,
please help The HSUS stop the seal hunt & killing! This awful
carnage of these beautiful baby harp seals must STOP!! Thank you so much. I’ve
been fighting to stop the killing for two years now but it continued this year,
and I’m as heartsick as other’s who are fighting to save these pups’
lives…please let’s not let have this happen again next year!
Now onto a more pleasant topic…I would like to CONGRATULATE CYNTHIA GROOPMAN for her poem, “A Memorial Day Message” being chosen as BEST POEM for this month! I would also like to congratulate
her again on winning Honorary Awards from the Police Precinct Civilian
Observation Patrol Presidential Award (114th Civ-OP; located in
Astoria, Queens, New York) and New York City’s Liberty Award, way to go
Cynthia!
Cynthia Groopman (alone, with
If you haven’t
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Understood”], you truly don’t know what you’re missing because it is an
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Spirit’s next issue will be out June 15th,
2007, and it’s a definite must-read!
Published editors, authors & columnists’ in Wt~In
Spirit are:
Karin
Lacroix [From the Editor]; founder, publisher & editor of Wt~In Spirit
Rev.
Karl Kessler [My Pastor, My Friend…]
Carol
Roach [Tapestry of the Word]
Trisha
Martin [When Little Ones Talk]
Rosanne
Catalano [Scripture Understood]
Along with many
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Like an enchanted cottage, you are enchanted too.
This is why I also invite you into The Enchanted Self’s website. Founded by positive psychologist, happiness
coach and published author Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, she shows, tells and inspires you on how to live a
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Also check out our ‘Helpful
Links’ Page on this website for other interesting and fun sites that
may be of interest to you.
See you all next month … until then,
Happy
Mother’s Day to All!
Also
Please Do Not Forget Our Veterans
on
Memorial Day!
Now please WELCOME executive editor Nancy Currie,
(my right-hand gal), along with our many authors; some new, some established who have written poems,
short stories and helpful informative articles for you. If you are moved by
what they have written, please do let them know by email, or by visiting their
websites. [Email addresses and websites are listed in our author’s bios.] Our
writing-contributors love hearing from their fans, so thank you from our writers
and authors.
© May 10, 2007 Rosanne Catalano.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR’S CORNER
By Nancy Currie
The Editor is on vacation.
© May 10, 2007
OFF THE PRESS!
(Author Book
Press Releases, Publishing News, Reading Group News
& Calls for Submissions from Publishers)!
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A New Book
By ROSANNE CATALANO
The Cat’s Meow for Writers &
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