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Or, A Personal Struggle, this morning’s stream of consciousness, unedited. What shall I write about today? I’m struggling. Not just today, for the last little while. Just reading the article “Lefty Guru of Optimism” in The New York Times on…
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Merriam-Webster Thesaurus.com The Beatles, Lennon-McCartney, “When I’m 64”, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 26 May 1967, vinyl lp. Thank you Alexander McCall Smith for the wonderful Mma Ramotswe and The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Cambridge Dictionary Dictionary.com…
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Or, Romeo and Juliet in a Kurosawa rainstorm.Or, the best play I ever walked out on at intermission. This was our third attempt to see this play during the 2018 season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), the attraction that brought…
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Twenty faces. It has been more than a week since I’ve seen them. Yet, I believe, if I had the kind of talent court room sketch artists have, I could draw each and every member of that crew. I hope…
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There’s nothing like a great last line to pull a story together, fulfill its promise to enlighten, to bring you joy or sorrow or wonder, to leave you with interesting questions or ideas, or simply bring on a smile and…
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You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. The first line of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884) hooked me the first…
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There is an inverse proportion between the number of exclamation points appearing in a text and persuasiveness. This also applies to text in bold or all caps. Too often, we see all three used together. Yes: AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!!!!!…
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