literature
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What you find
You never know what you’ll find in library books. I’ve found any number of pressed flowers and leaves, an old love letter, a dollar bill, and index cards and the occasional honest-to-gosh bookmark. I’ve never kept any of that stuff, because it wasn’t mine to keep and also because maybe the person who left them… Continue reading
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Perspective
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.Cormac McCarthy, who died June 13, 2023, in No Country For Old Men I think on these words a lot. Continue reading
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Drawing inspiration from August Wilson, and premiere of ‘The Piano Lesson’
I’m a long way from Broadway these days, but I know well one of the nominees for Best Revival of a Play: “The Piano Lesson.” As a college sophomore, I was in the audience of the premiere on Nov. 23, 1987, at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. It was completely by accident,… 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 