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April 19, 2015
CATS AND HUSBANDS
Cats and husbands—if you are lucky—share many sterling qualities. They are warm, comforting, and there when you need them—at least cats are. Husbands, like other human beings, are subject to pressures of work and all kinds of life responsibilities like … Continue reading →
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April 12, 2015
A WEEK OF WHACKY WORDS
Everything I picked up to read this week contained plays on words, made-up words or proper uses of words. I have no idea why this happened. Was it National Words Week? Or did the planets align to give me a … Continue reading →
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April 5, 2015
PASSOVER AND EASTER
This year Passover, the Jewish celebration, and Easter, a Christian one, were celebrated on the same weekend. These two rites are inextricably connected; Christ’s “Last Supper” was a Jewish seder, a ritual meal on the first night of Passover. In … Continue reading →
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March 29, 2015
WHY GOODREADS IS GOOD FOR ALL
This week I was looking for a few “good reads” for six-year-olds and spent a lot of time perusing Goodreads. It’s a terrific website and I recommend it to anyone who loves books. I first became acquainted with the site … Continue reading →
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March 24, 2015
TESTING, TESTING….
I am having problems with transmission of blog images to my Facebook author’s page and this is an experiment to see if it’s fixed. Meanwhile, this is a photo of Catman Scrothers, a former street cat we adopted last month. … Continue reading →
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March 22, 2015
“You Can’t Have Everything. Where Would You Put It?”
“He who dies with the most toys wins” was a popular, annoying bumper sticker in the 1980’s. Most people would disagree with that statement nowadays because at some point, belongings that were once desirable become clutter. As the comedian … Continue reading →
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March 15, 2015
LIVING WHILE DYING
Living while dying has been a prominent topic in the media this past month. Two physicians, one at the beginning of his career and the other nearing its end, both wrote about their impending deaths. Paul Kalanithi, a 37-year-old Stanford … Continue reading →
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March 8, 2015
WRITERS AT OUR SISTER’S SCHOOL
Our Sister’s School invited me back this year to talk to a group of young writers about the art and craft of writing fiction. These young women voluntarily stay after school in order to learn more about writing–and they … Continue reading →
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February 23, 2015
BEAUTIFUL SENTENCES
Beautiful sentences in English literature are a pleasure to read and remember. Recently Daniel Dalton of BuzzFeed Books solicited reader opinions on the most beautiful sentences they had read. Here are some of their favorites (and mine), with attribution of … Continue reading →
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February 15, 2015
Bi or ByeBye?
A married man divorces his wife because“something is missing” in their marriage. She is surprised that he is unhappy and heartbroken that their marriage is over. It is only later than she learns he is gay (or maybe bisexual?) and … Continue reading →
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