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The Psychology department specialized in animal studies. Herrnstein and his students did their work on pigeons not people.
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I don’t remember if the first time Homer broke a hole in one of the lower screens and escaped was during a thunderstorm, or during some Fourth of July fireworks...
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My enthusiasm wasn’t just for Joseph Heller’s play. It was for a whole coming-of-age experience. Attendance at the Yale Rep Theater was the central event. But it was far from the entirety of the drama.
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It’s so humiliating
When you are wanting to enact your role as part of a “recently married couple”
And instead, you find yourself in a different kind of drama altogether
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Although this story was originally written for the prompt Changing Times, it is a Floods story too. The first of my Boston friends to visit me after I left to enroll in a Ph,D.program in the Midwest was Jack. We had become buddies through our participation in a Men’s Group that lasted about five years. By…
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This is not a piece of my own creative work. But if you put up a prompt about one’s experience with time zone changes, and one of your respondents to the prompt has a brother who has made a living with a comedy routine on that topic–well, what did you expect? Here is my brother…
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Larry, will you take Laurel to be your lifelong partner? Will you love and respect her, be honest with her and stand by her, through whatever life may hold so you can genuinely share your life together?
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Had someone drugged the soft drink they served me, at the offices of the mining company where my newfound friends needed to make a stop? Was I influenced by the sultry thirty-something woman who insisted that I receive my first lesson in appraising sapphires?
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I am so grateful to Retrospect for giving me the avenue and the structure to bring these stories to life.
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She wanted me to be her instrument; I just wanted to be her fearless union leader.
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Intelligence: He thought it showed!
Prompted By Intelligence
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Homer: Semper amati, semper recordati, semper in cordibus nostris
Prompted By Lightning
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Thumbing to New Haven for “We Bombed in New Haven”
Prompted By Theater
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A story of laughter (not) and forgetting (much)
Prompted By Trauma
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“You’re not from around here, are you?”
Prompted By Floods
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“What Time Is It There?” a comedy routine by Hugh Fink
Prompted By Changing Times
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A Commitment Ceremony
Prompted By Ceremony
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Of navigational impairment and the kind of adventure I never intended
Prompted By Directionally Challenged
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Without Retrospect, we’d all just be bidin’ our time
Prompted By Retrospect Retrospective
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Some dream of bedding a person–others just dream of a bed!
Prompted By Feathering Our Nests
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