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<span style="font-size: large;">Mary Anne Yarde is the multi award-winning author of the International Bestselling Series </span><span style="font-size: large;">- The Du Lac Chronicles</span>Mona Marzano Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463102405493362153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499443478464422186.post-70425738357853995682019-06-05T15:32:00.002-04:002019-06-05T15:37:48.981-04:00Living conditions/lives of immigrant families in Hell's Kitchen <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">A short story set in the world of your book, </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">but not intrinsically related to the events or the main characters of the book</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> was a blog post that was suggested to me. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>Forty Years in a Day </i>begins in the early 1900s </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">and follows the
incredible journey of a young mother and her four children as they escape from
Italy into the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">As if it were fate, a friend sends me a
link to a YouTube audio of her Aunt, Margaret Carlson, who is being interviewed
by her daughter. This elderly woman, who has long since passed, had grown up in
Hell’s Kitchen in the early 1900s. She shares an amazing childhood memory that I think is the quintessential
example of what living in Hell’s Kitchen was like. I would not be able to
describe it with any more craft or poignancy than Mrs. Carlson; therefore,
these are her exact words transcribed from </span><span class="watch-title"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Margaret Carlson's Memorial Video</span></i></span><span class="watch-title"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="watch-title"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">on YouTube.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="http://youtu.be/V55rDRi5Dw0"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://youtu.be/V55rDRi5Dw0</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was born 1928. I was born in New York
City—36<sup>th</sup> street and 11<sup>th</sup> Avenue. It was called Hell’s
Kitchen. Bad neighborhood. On 11<sup>th</sup> Avenue there were railroad tracks
and the freight trains use to go along the railroad tracks with the cows, and
the pigs, and the sheep, and you could hear them all mooing. They were going to
the slaughterhouse which was on 28<sup>th</sup> Street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I guess I was about 5, and it was early on
a Sunday morning, and I was running the streets on the other side of Eleventh Avenue,
where I wasn’t supposed to be, but of course I was. Two men were laying on the
street. We called them bottle babies. It was depressing days and there was no work
for the men so the men use to hang out on the corner and get drunk. You know, they
couldn’t afford food, but they could get drunk. And they were our fathers, we
knew them. So these two men are sleeping, and one man gets up and he picked up
a big cinderblock and he dropped it on the other man’s head. He looked at me,
and I just raced right home. I raced up four flights of stairs. You always
lived on the top floor cause it was cheaper. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I told my mother, “Mama, Mr. So and So hit
Mr. So and So over the head with a brick.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">My mother said, “What’d did you say, Margie?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Mr. So and So hit Mr. So and So over the
head with a brick.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">What a whack my mother gave me. She never
hit us. My father’s hobby was hitting us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">My
mother never hit us. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What’d you see, Margie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was crying. “Mr. So and So hit Mr. So
and So over the head with a brick.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">She gave me another whack. I landed on the
floor, and I’m laying there, and she said to me, “What’d you see, Margie?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I looked, and I’m thinking to myself she’s
going to hit me again. I sat up, and I said, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I
didn’t see nothin, Mama.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">She said, “That’s right, now go downstairs
and play.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">That’s how I learned you don’t see nothin,
you don’t know nothin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">So I get downstairs and there were lots,
torn down buildings. Rubble. Empty lots we call them. And the lot was full of
people. I was only little so I climb the rocks and I’m standin there and I’m
lookin. The police have a man, blood all down his face, saying, “Did anybody
see this? Does anybody know anything?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The West side was nice, nobody’s there,
all of a sudden people are coming out of the woodwork. Of course, nobody saw
nothin. So I turn around to climb down the rocks and there is Mr. So and So
staring straight at me, right behind me. I just ran home and that was the end
of that. But like I said, I knew then—you didn’t see nothin and you don’t know nothin.
That’s where I come from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you,
Margaret Carlson, for your story and for reminding us to count our blessings.</span></div>
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<li><strong>The Great Law: “As you sow, so shall you reap.”</strong></li>
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The simple explanation of the Great Law is: our thought and actions have consequences – good or bad. If we desire peace, love, harmony, prosperity, etc. we must be willing to act accordingly.<br />
This is also known as the “Law of Cause and Effect.” Also, <em>energy (thought, action) that we put into the world has a consequence, immediate or not.</em><br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Creation: “What we desire comes through participation.”</strong></li>
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The life we see around us was created by a person’s intentions. As we are one with the Universe, our intentions determine the evolution of creation. Since what we surround ourselves with becomes part of us, it’s our responsibility to ensure these surroundings are conducive to our desires.<br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Humility: “Refusal to accept what is will still be what is.”</strong></li>
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Acceptance is a near-universal virtue in many belief systems. Simply put, we must first accept the present circumstances in order to change them.<br />
In focusing on the negative instead of making changes to address the negative, we’re committing to a zero-sum result.<br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Growth: “Our own growth is above any circumstance.”</strong></li>
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The only thing we have control over is ourselves. The subsequent action (or inaction) of motive will yield either positive or negative circumstances in our lives.<br />
True change only occurs if we make the commitment to change what is in our heart.<br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Responsibility: “Our lives are of our own doing, nothing else.”</strong></li>
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When there is turbulence in one’s own life, there is often turbulence internally. If we’re to change our life, we must change our frame of mind and surroundings.<br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Connection: “Everything in the Universe is connected, both large and small.”</strong></li>
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Our past, present and future are all connected. As such, we must put in the work to change these connections if we desire something different.<br />
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<strong>The Law of Focus: “One cannot direct attention beyond a single task.”</strong><br />
Relating to our spiritual growth, we cannot have negative thoughts or actions and expect to grow spiritually. We must direct full attention to achieve any desired task.<br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Hospitality and Giving: “Demonstrating our selflessness shows true intentions.”</strong></li>
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Put simply: what we claim to believe must manifest into our actions. Selflessness is a virtue only if we’re accommodating something other than ourselves.<br />
Without a selfless nature, true spiritual growth is nearly impossible.<br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Change: “History repeats itself unless changed.”</strong></li>
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Conscious commitment to change is the only method of influencing the past. History will continue along an unconstructive path until positive energies direct it elsewhere.<br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Here and Now: “The Present is all we have.”</strong></li>
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Looking back regretfully and forward pointlessly robs oneself of a present opportunity. Old thoughts and patterns of behavior negate the present chance to advance ourselves.<br />
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<li><strong>The Law of Patience and Reward: “Nothing of value is created without a patient mindset.”</strong></li>
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Toiling away cannot be circumvented through wishful thinking. Our rewards are claimed only through patience and persistence, nothing else.<br />
Rewards are not the end-result. True, lasting joy comes from the knowledge of doing what’s necessary in the rightful anticipation of a reward that is well-earned.<br />
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The end result is of little value if it leaves little or nothing behind.<br />
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<br />Mona Marzano Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463102405493362153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499443478464422186.post-27972660359377949392016-01-14T11:16:00.003-05:002016-01-14T11:16:57.916-05:00CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF NYC DONATIONS as of 12/31/2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mona Marzano Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463102405493362153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499443478464422186.post-26441198110317434002015-04-02T16:26:00.001-04:002015-04-02T16:26:07.848-04:00SO TRUE...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Mona Marzano Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463102405493362153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499443478464422186.post-58684615089152725412015-02-27T13:23:00.000-05:002015-02-27T13:23:18.182-05:00Author Interview from BookStopCorner...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong><u>Author Q&A Session : With Mona Rodriguez</u></strong></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to an all new author interview session, and today I present you the author who has spun a family saga which is thoroughly compelling. Inspired by her own family story, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mona Rodriguez</b> wrote her very first book, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>"<i>Forty Years in a Day</i>",</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and she is here on BookStopCorner to talk about those family secrets, her book, her journey and her life beyond books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="http://bookstopcorner.blogspot.in/2015/02/author-q-session-32-with-mona-rodriguez.html" target="_blank"> <span style="color: purple;">Read the interview to know more about this incredible first time author.</span></a><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read the review of <a href="http://bookstopcorner.blogspot.in/2015/01/review-125-forty-years-in-day-by-mona.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><em><strong>Forty Years in a Day</strong></em></span></a></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you Aditi Saha at BookStopCorner!</span></em></div>
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Mona Marzano Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463102405493362153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499443478464422186.post-1659212396648241602015-02-15T15:40:00.004-05:002015-02-16T17:30:07.126-05:00ARBITER NEWS INTERVIEW...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thank you Laura Sesana and Arbiter News!</span><br />
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Posted by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.arbiternews.com/author/arbiter-books/" rel="author" title="Arbiter Bookworms">Arbiter Bookworms</a></span> on <time class="published" datetime="2015-02-15T12:12:18-05:00" title="Sunday, February 15th, 2015, 12:12 pm">February 15, 2015</time> in <span class="category"><a href="http://www.arbiternews.com/category/culture/books-culture/meet-the-author/" rel="tag">Meet the Author</a></span> | </div>
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We recently had the pleasure of interviewing <a href="http://www.arbiternews.com/2015/02/15/meet-author-forty-years-day-mona-rodriguez/www.fortyyearsinaday.com" target="_blank">Mona Rodriguez</a>, author of <strong><em><a href="http://www.fortyyearsinaday.com/" target="_blank">Forty Years In A Day</a>.</em></strong></div>
Mona Marzano Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463102405493362153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499443478464422186.post-28881572851747387642015-02-05T17:07:00.002-05:002015-03-06T15:01:03.535-05:00ANOTHER ANGEL...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dear friend and cousin Dianne Vigorito. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mona Marzano Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463102405493362153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499443478464422186.post-16424527616556621122015-01-16T13:31:00.001-05:002015-01-16T13:31:18.788-05:00New Review from BookStopCorner..."the book is devastatingly beautiful"<h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"A thought-provoking family saga set in New York in the </span></span></span></span></div>
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</span>Mona Marzano Rodriguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463102405493362153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499443478464422186.post-27685518622975130782014-12-19T12:17:00.001-05:002015-01-16T14:26:11.701-05:00WHAT BOOKS DO FOR THE HUMAN SOUL...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4RCFLobfqcw?list=PLwxNMb28XmpdJpJzF2YRBnfmOva0HE0ZI" width="480"></iframe><br />
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-<em>saver</em> — because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator — a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.</div>
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Literature performs the basic magic of what things look like though someone else’s point of view; it allows us to consider the consequences of our actions on others in a way we otherwise wouldn’t; and it shows us examples of kindly, generous, sympathetic people.</div>
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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system — the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side — they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-conscious, and cynical world.</div>
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We’re weirder than we like to admit. We often can’t say what’s really on our minds. But in books we find descriptions of who we genuinely are and what events, described with an honesty quite different from what ordinary conversation allows for. In the best books, it’s as if the writer knows us better than we know ourselves — they find the words to describe the fragile, weird, special experiences of our inner lives… Writers open our hearts and minds, and give us maps to our own selves, so that we can travel in them more reliably and with less of a feeling of paranoia or persecution…</div>
<li style="margin-bottom: 10px;">IT PREPARES YOU FOR FAILURE</li>
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All of our lives, one of our greatest fears is of failure, of messing up, of becoming, as the tabloids put it, “a loser.” Every day, the media takes us into stories of failure. Interestingly, a lot of literature is also about failure — in one way or another, a great many novels, plays, poems are about people who messed up… Great books don’t judge as harshly or as one-dimensionally as the media…<br />
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