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The Bugs Bunny Sutra (Redux)
With all due respect to Sid and the Buddha, this post is easily the most spiritual, esoteric, wise, profound, and, yes, irreverent as anything I’ve ever…
The Wit and Wisdom of Neurotransmitters. (Redux)
Among the many tropes about the writing life is that it involves long periods of staring at a screen or blank piece of paper, waiting for inspiration…
Swoopers, Bashers, & Leaf Rakers. (Redux)
Kurt Vonnegut said there are two types of writers: Swoopers, who dive in, get it all down, and then go back and painstakingly fix whatever doesn’t work…
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How I Learned to Write (Redux.)
Originally posted December 28, 2022. My father Elmer—a rather odd moniker for a Jewish kid from Pawtucket, Rhode Island—taught Shakespeare at Brown…
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"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
--Peter De Vries
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Yes, It's as Through-The-Looking Glass Batshit Crazy as We Feared…
(Next, they'll come for the writers...)
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Go Look It Up. Part 2.
The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System.
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I'm too short.
My search for the perfect chair.
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Go Look It Up.
Part 1: A lifetime of (re)searching...
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Now, THAT'S a good question...
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Road to Nowhere.
Writing Aside #25.
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Taking Care of Business. Part 2.
Forty years ago, my daughter and I often went downtown on business.
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