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What's on my reading list this week? ... It's Food Friday!

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My end of the world is a little more relaxed after today! My final installment of The Blood Chronicles, Tears of Blood, is off to the publisher as of this morning, so all I have to do is wait to hear from them. Spring break is just about here for the college students, so I'm looking at a week of peace from psych homework (UGH!) and I can focus on forming The Blood Chronicles into one book that I'll release in the summer. So far, two items on this years' to-do list are almost complete.

While I have a chance, for those of you that have been following my blog, you know that Tears of Blood involves a silent film actor turned modern-day vamp. On researching my character and the background of Old Hollywood, I've become addicted to bits of history that are often taken for granted.

Among those is television—an item that is part of our life more profoundly than one could ever realize.

Growing up, I was fascinated by that tiny screen–my luxury was a 12-inch black and white with one channel in English. BTW, yes, it did not have anything resembling a remote control, and you had to get up to change the channel.

I was a big fan of Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron, Wild Wild West, Star Trek, Hawaii 5-0, The Avengers, and Night Gallery. It was an eclectic lineup for a child, but I'd watch anything my parents were watching.

However, one show was my favorite. It didn't have cool special effects, handsome stars, or creepy nightmares involved. It was a simple show with a rowdy bunch of actors that put themselves into situations of a war unknown to young minds.

M*A*S*H was that taboo show that I would watch without my parents approval, giggling along with Hawkeye and wondering what else what up with really not-so-crazy Klinger. Even as a teen, I was a dedicated fan, and my weekly lineup included my favorite view of the Korean War.

February 28, 1983, the viewing world watched the last episode of M*A*S*H. Over 77 percent of the viewing audience watched the two-and-a-half hour episode that ended 11 seasons of a war that lasted longer than the actual Korean War.