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Lost Cell Phone and Covid-19 Too
First thing every morning, I connect my cell phone to the charger. Sunday, as my wife and I were about to leave for our weekly drive around the county, I couldn’t find it. No matter. It would show up somehow. It always does. I find a different place to leave my phone almost every time…
Read MoreSheltering in Place – Look for the Everyday Joys.
Social distancing has changed our daily routines. My wife Melinda gets up before I do, usually sometime around 5:30. Most mornings I don’t hear her leave the bedroom. I can fall back to sleep when I do. That final hour is often good for one more dream. My dreams make night an adventure for me.…
Read MoreBloggin is hard work.
Blogging is a lot of work. Especially in the beginning, I find I am frequently tempted to give it up. The trouble is not the writing, though that’s challenging enough. At least with writing, the author knows the scope and nature of the task. I enjoy it. But post the message and it all gets…
Read MoreRegional Premier: “Levittown” Opens Feb. 21.
Levittown by Marc Palmeiri “You won’t stop watching for a second,” Critic Neil Genzlinger. New York Times. Levittown was first presented opening in New York City in 2006 by the Axis Company. It was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. It was also selected by Backstage as a “Critic’s Pick” in 2009 at The Theatre at…
Read MoreLove Letters by A. R. Gurney – Gurney Got It Wrong
#loveletters #argurney #theater Love Letters by A. R. Gurney has been around since 1988. Many stage and screen luminaries have appeared in it, directed it, or been involved in its promotion. Widespread acclaim for the play – a Pulitzer Prize nominee – surely is due, almost exclusively, to the story line. The play follows Andrew…
Read MorePoetry 101 – Making Sense of Modern Poetry
#poetry #literary #robertfrost #dylanthomas At one time, in order for a composition to be considered poetry, it needed to be rhymed and presented with a consistent cadence. Robert Frost’s “Stopping by the Wood on a Snowy Evening” is a fine example. Whose woods these are I…
Read MoreWindows 10 — Efficiency Sacrificed to Non-essentials and Glitz
Windows 10 is a mess. I wish like the hell I had never upgraded I had been using XP on my laptop and Windows 7 on a second machine. Microsoft withdrew support for XP. My old laptop was wearing out. So I made the leap and find myself wallowing in regret. There is no way,…
Read MoreAgeism in America is Unconsious and Virulent
Ageism in America is deeply imbedded, largely unconscious and hardly ever confronted. A reader recently sent me a series of cartoons about elderly people. Each panel poked fun at the commonplace inconveniences or afflictions of old age; i.e. incontinence, forgetfulness, general decrepitude, impotence, diminished libido, ineptitude with new gadgets, etc. The subjects were depicted in…
Read MoreMeet Barbara Hinske, Author of Coming To Rosemont — A Debut Novel
Somewhere in a crabby moment, I wrote that the self-publishing industry exists for those who work in it; namely, the printers, publicists, promoters, contest sponsors, etc. A horde awaits the arrival of every neophyte author into the arena, eager to capitalize on the writer’s aspirations, ignorance, and boundless belief in self. All of that is…
Read MoreA Great Beach Read by San Alini, “A Husband by Midnight” — A Review
Betty Sallas is single and successful editor at a New York City publisher. She awakens on the morning of her 40th birthday in the grips of a hangover to find a hulk of guy in her kitchen, a guy who came to fix the plumbing at her mother’s request as it turns out. Something about…
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