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Pushing a noun against a verb
“You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.” “Inherit the Wind” is one of the great plays of the ’50s and one of the great movies of 1960. It’s kind of stunning that it didn’t win anything at the Academy Awards. Putatively about the 1920s Scopes Monkey Trial, it’s also… Continue reading
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Flag Day, a birthday
Yesterday wasn’t just Flag Day. Wednesday was what would have been the 83rd birthday of my eighth-grade English teacher, Kathy Clark. Amazing what you remember, isn’t it? Been a long time since I was an 8th grader at Coronado Middle School in Coronado, California. I was a transfer student from Connecticut, just me and my… Continue reading
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The vanishing Internet prose
How can I make my words on the Internet last? Is that even possible? I didn’t used to worry about this. For most of my journalism career, I rarely thought about the future of the newspaper stories I wrote. I worried about getting the story first, right and well-written. The next week, month or years… Continue reading
About Me
Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 