"And that’s all I’m going to say about that."
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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Billie Holiday knew about love. Real love. Hard as life love. Love that happens and is steadfast no matter what. Love that is unconditional. All my favorite love songs in some way take their cue from Billie’s “Don’t Explain”. The…
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Watching Band of Horses perform on Austin City Limits I had the thought that we need to carry on making music, making art, making happiness. We have to carry on with life. With all of life, a whole, well-rounded life….
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I’m sure there are many people who’ve been in and out of physical therapy more than I have, still, I feel like an “old campaigner”. Knee, low back, knee again, shoulder, and what a dear friend of mine calls “shneck”,…
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Christmastime I found my inner voices discussing the meaning and location of “Home”. It wasn’t hearing Bing Crosby singing the words “I’ll be home for Christmas, you can count on me” (1943, Decca Records, lyricist Kim Gannon, composer Walter Kent,…
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“Justice? What do you care about justice? You don’t even care whether you’ve got the right men or not. All you know is you’ve lost something and somebody’s got to be punished.” (1943, The Ox-Bow Incident, Dir. William A. Wellman,…
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I saw an article posted on Facebook the other day about well, guess who? Anyway the headline implied a quote, a quote which I cannot now remember. No matter, the actual quote is less important than my reaction to it….
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