Haters gonna hate, but I gotta tell you, it is fun to root for a winning team. Over the last couple of years, I have become quite the Patriots fan, political bedfellows aside. I grew up in a household with a father who watched football, baseball and golf constantly, then I married a huge sports…
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Suprise Me
GOAT (still)
Prompted By Sports
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Haters gonna hate, but I gotta tell you, it is fun to root for a winning team. Over the last couple of years, I have become quite the Patriots fan, political bedfellows aside. I grew up in a household with a father who watched football, baseball and golf constantly, then I married a huge sports…
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Gates of Eden: the genesis of an antiwar novel*
Prompted By The Draft & Vietnam
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My antiwar writing began in a theater. I was working on a new play and the antiwar movement of the 1960s came up in conversation. Several of the actors expressed amazement that there had been a determined movement to stop the war. One actor said something like “Wow! We just thought that all…
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Pardon me while I have a strange interlude
Prompted By Comedy
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Comedy, for me, is reified in the Animal Crackers scene when madcap Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx) steps away from staid Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) and Mrs. Whitehead (Margaret Irving) saying: “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.” You know, recently I’ve favored cremation over burial, but burial’s preferable if I can have Groucho’s line carved…
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Do you, Mister Jones…
Prompted By The Draft & Vietnam
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Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mister Jones — Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, 1965 As a teenager I participated with the Quakers to ban the bomb. I celebrated the March on Washington and survived Mississippi Freedom Summer. I learned to play blues and folk…
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Taxman
Prompted By Taxes
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Let me tell you how it will be There’s one for you, nineteen for me ‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman The Beatles, who had grown up poor, weren’t very happy to discover once they were making oodles of money that the British government was going to take most of it. Not sure…
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A tale of wash day danger
Prompted By Laundry
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Trying to take his jeans out of dryer dubbed "the green monster," a young athlete's life is changed forever.
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Breathe in… Breathe out: Buddha and the Time-Space Continuum
Prompted By Ceremony
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Be here now, baby.
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Stowaways: Clyde, me, and the CHP
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He nodded the beak of his perfectly molded, authoritarian-style trooper’s hat in my direction.
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I Like Ike
Prompted By What We Wore
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Being a Boomer, I have lived through all the style changes through the years. I wore pretty organdy dresses with patent leather Mary Janes to birthday parties in my youth. I had a dress coat with matching hat each season as I grew. I remember the introduction of velcro into the wardrobe (it made a…
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The 2018 Midterm Election: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Prompted By Politics
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All of my years as a faithful voter have taught me that it’s important to keep trying. Eventually, I hope our country will get what it needs.
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