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Nov.09.2011
She is two-and-a-half years old and very, very pretty with huge, blue eyes, fabulous dimples and very blonde hair. Her name is Emily, and her mommy asked me and Chris, a dear friend of mine, to take care of her for the day. Chris arrived at 6:30 a.m. as Emily's mommy was taking Emily's daddy to...
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Sep.09.2011
I was on my way to tape my scenes for Guiding Light THAT DAY. My call was for 9:00 am. I had just walked in Central Park and had seen a friend whose husband was to die half an hour later on the 93rd floor of the first Tower. She was walking her dog and we chatted so happily without a care in...
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Aug.31.2011
One evening, my husband and I were out to dinner with two of our close friends, Penny and Peter. Penny had just joined the board of Outward Bound, the well-known, non-profit organization dedicated to helping people explore the world and expand themselves and their potential through wilderness...
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Jun.13.2011
By guest blogger Meg Pearson. Meg is an Associate Professor at the Univ of West Georgia in Renaissance Drama and she is Tina Sloans wonderful niece - She is married and lives in Atlanta, Ga with her brand new baby Piper and her husband Marcus.
This is about the new movie declaring William...
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Nov.23.2010
I just returned from several weeks zigzagging up, down and across our country on a book and play tour for Changing Shoes, my book and play of the same name. This Thanksgiving my gratitude is for all the people I met when I ventured out of my New York City life. And that gratitude is immense.
As...
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Oct.07.2010
When I was sixteen I was in love with a blonde boy with thin lips and pink cheeks. I really was in love and in those days it meant walks on the beach and kissing only. He’d pick me up after school in his white convertible with red leather upholstery. He was a senior, I was a sophomore, and I adored...
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Oct.01.2010
The phrase "soap opera" is equated with incredible and unbelievable stories and with sexy, steamy romances. People come back from the dead (my daughter did this twice, once as a totally different actress), and characters amble out of exploding buildings scot-free with their hair...
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Sep.01.2010
It has been said that to truly know a man you must sleep in his bed and eat at his table. That he can hide himself otherwise. But I have always believed a man's kiss is the clue to who he really is -- how forceful, decisive, thoughtful, weak, shy, or kind. A kiss is a very personal stamp and in my...
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Jul.13.2010
A man named Garrett Brock Trapnell who was a Brock from Brockton, MA became my "pen" pal (in this case -- short for penitentiary?). It began when I was on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" and I got a letter in my fan mail from Marian State Penitentiary -- a brilliant...
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About Tina
For twenty-six years, Tina Sloan, played the role of nurse Lillian Raines on Guiding Light, which aired its final episode in 2009 after a seventy- two-year run on radio and television. Tina has appeared on many other television shows, including Somerset,...
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