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Speaking of Love - positive and uplifting short stories and poems about Romance, Marriage and True Love.

- Speaking of Love -
positive and uplifting
short stories and poems about
Romance, Marriage and true Love.

If you're in love with love,
then join the club -
everyone who wants a brighter day and a brighter world belongs to the exact same club
and we're all looking for ways to make our hearts sing and our eyes shine.

LUCKY for us, Speaking of Love
manages to do both.
Give yourself,
or someone you care about,
a real treat and read
Speaking of Love
now.
You deserve it.
You deserve to feel wonderful.
You deserve
to feel wonderful right now.

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Deep Relaxation & My Place of Tranquillity CD

Conquer Stress
Experience
Deep Relaxation
and your own inner
Place of Tranquillity

- Audio sample - 

Deep Relaxation

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Power
Self Esteem
and Confidence
with the flick of mental switch.

All of us are conditioned
to keep a series of
emotional triggers - 
which is why people and events can trigger
our emotional buttons.
The Second Trigger is
your own personal release
from all of these buttons.

Take back control of your life now!

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The Bright Light Café Presents ...

Ray Malus

Biography      Poems      Short Stories      Performances      Interview      Photos 

Denise Marshall

Ray Malus Biography 

Question: “Who has been a Nightclub Entertainer, Computer Systems Administrator, University Course Chair, Software Designer/Programmer, Choral Director, Composer, Actor, Director, Playwright, and poet?”

Answer: “Ray Malus.”

"Don't wake me when it's over. I mean, by then, IT'S OVER!"

Educated in New York City (Bronx High School Of Science, Manhattan College), Malus "dropped out" in his Junior year and hit the road with a travelling band. Eventually, he became a Variety Performer, and settled in the San Fernando Valley, California, in 1970. The rest just followed, naturally.

“I just followed my curiosity.” he says. “I never chased money, just went where my interest called me. Somehow the bills got paid.”

Now 68 and retired, Mr Malus lives with his wife of 10 years, Sharron, in a house he bought in 1971.

“With everything else in my life so chaotic, I needed a haven, someplace to hide in.”

Ray says he’s been fortunate to live in interesting times and places. He was part of the Greenwich Village "Folk Scene", was in San Francisco for the "Summer Of Love", and got interested in personal computers when they were still an arcane technical curiosity.

Although not a Dentist, in 1983, while working at UCLA School of Dentistry, Ray developed, and taught, the first course of study in Computer Dental Technology — now called "Dental Informatics".

“I’ve always seemed to be able to ‘Grandfather’ myself into a career — finding something relatively new, and growing with the field.”

Asked about his various careers, Ray gets a bit "mystical", “It’s all really part of the same thing, an urge to create – to make concrete something that only existed in my imagination. Writing, design, performing, composing, teaching - even programming – all reduce to that same act.”

He currently maintains websites which he designed for California Writers Club and his Church — along with his own website.
Visit: http://raymalus.com

His writing covers a lot of different genres. Primarily a Playwright (he’s had 12 plays produced), he writes short stories, songs, and memoirs too - and is an award-winning poet.

“I’ll write anything I think people will read.”

Ray Malus was awarded the title "California Senior Poet Laureate — 2010", and was awarded the "2011 Scribe’s Scroll". His Chancel Dramas (6) have been performed at numerous Churches, and his full-length play "The Meeting In Durango" holds the record for longest run on 'Reader's Theater' (Time Warner Cable, Southern California). Another Malus play, "NOIR", is second.

"I love it when my writing makes people laugh, but I'm most pleased when it makes people think. I think all art should expose the commonality of people. My best compliment is always, 'You wrote what I've always felt, but never could say.' "

Mr Malus is currently finishing his first novel, "Ashes In Yonkers", which is adapted from one of his plays.
 

   Gary Mercer

Poems:       

Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent= narrated 

Autumn Is

Church Sunday 

Inspiration 

Pegasus                        Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent

Pet-antic                      Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent

Retirement

Seasons of Laughter  

Sustenance 

The Long Dance

Winter Winds                 Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent

Woman!                        Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent

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Gary Mercer

Short Stories

I Wrestled a Pith-on 

Cottage Cheese

The Driving Lesson    

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Performances:

Pegasus                        Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent

Pet-antic                      Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent

Winter Winds                 Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent

Woman!                        Speaker broadcasting Showcased Talent

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