My Own Stories

I was on the water rower, singing along to a Van Morrison song on Pandora when I remembered a night in ‘69 or ‘70, fall or winter. It was during the school year. Some friends of mine and I had…
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I write because I must, because I love it, because I’ve wanted to since the time I was a kid, barely able to read. I’ve set aside the dream of doing it for years. Too many years. Now that I…
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“step right up step right up step right upeveryone’s a winner bargains galorethat’s right you too can be the proud ownerof the quality goes in before the name goes onone-tenth of a dollar one-tenth of a dollar, we got service…
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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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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 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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Klee and I recently took a little trip to Priest Lake in Idaho. We were to join some friends who were opening up their family cabin at the lake for the summer. It was not yet summer, still spring but…
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Earth Day was first proposed October 1969, at a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Conference in San Francisco by John McConnel. McConnell, a peace advocate, proposed a global holiday to honor the Earth and Peace with the…
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Sequels? Generally, not a big fan. The concept more often than not makes me roll my eyes. Roger Ebert observed back in 2011 “As the leadership of many studios is taken from creators and assigned to marketers, nothing is harder…
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