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The Long and Short of It
George Saunders In middle and high school literature classes, I remember grousing about having to look for the “hidden meanings” in short...
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Nov 28, 20213 min read
‘Twas the Night After Turkey
Lubben Brothers The evening air under clear skies had just enough of a nip to be bracing, and the mix of folk, light rock and hints of...
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Oct 21, 20215 min read
A Time to Read
Good thing I took a book with me to Nicaragua, because I didn’t take my email password. The book is The Grass Is Singing, by the late...
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Sep 9, 20213 min read
Time for Justice
A letter on the editorial page of the Palm Beach Post at the end of August so incensed me that I determined to write a newsletter about...
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Aug 11, 20215 min read
A Pain in the Arm?
A novel idea occurred to me the other day. Excuse me, I don’t mean I got an idea for writing another novel, not just after finishing the...
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Jun 23, 20216 min read
Fascism — Fast Forward
On the heels of the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize to the teenager who videotaped the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis,...
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May 5, 20211 min read
A Second Chance
If you’re a procrastinator like me, you often miss out on great opportunities. So you may have delayed entering a contest to win 45+...
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May 2, 20211 min read
Free Books!
Hello y’all out there in reader land. ‘Fraid I’ve been remiss in letting you know about this great opportunity to win so many free...
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Apr 26, 20215 min read
To Believe or not to Believe, That Is the Question
Rob Eagar An elderly woman who lives in my condo complex told me her mother had advised never to talk about religion or politics, a...
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Apr 7, 20212 min read
Easy Writer
After I posted an article about the coincidental ways in which several ostensibly disparate elements came together on the Easter weekend,...
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Apr 4, 20213 min read
Uncanny Easter Parade
David Fitzgerald While deleting a huge backlog of emails to avoid paying a Google fee on this Easter weekend, I ran across an internet...
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Mar 20, 20216 min read
Hasta la Costa Rica, Baby!
“These vagabond shoes, they’re longing to stay.” San Jose, Costa Rica That wasn’t a typo. If I keep having the kind of experiences like...
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Mar 6, 20215 min read
Soaking the Poor
Sen. Elizabeth Warren The bumper of my 2010 Mazda is a stream of stickers dedicated to two people who couldn’t be more different: Donald...
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Feb 15, 20214 min read
MY HON-EY: A Costco Odyssey
Some 30 years ago, I bought a Hon office chair from Costco, one with a gray, cloth fabric that I could sit on after a sweaty workout...
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Jan 16, 20213 min read
Calling All Authors …
Rob Eagar, a book marketing expert and author of several nonfiction books, is the first person I’ve come across in the business of public...
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Jan 1, 20212 min read
It’s a Blue World
Michael Hartnett Michael Hartnett is the author of six novels, his latest being Blue Gowanus, which I reviewed below. He holds a...
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Dec 24, 20208 min read
A Fascist Merry Christmas
December 23, 2020 Dear Friends and Relatives, These days, I am reminded of a favorite expression by my late brother-in-law: “We’re havin’...
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Dec 15, 20203 min read
Chance Encounters of the Literary Kind
Tampa Bay Chance encounters of related people or things in unlikely circumstances often elicit the cliché, “It’s a small world.” These...
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