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November 13, 2009
- A Meditation On Marriage | Part Two | [AFTER SIX MONTHS OF MARRIAGE]It's been less than a year since I wrote the essay below [See Part One].I have been married since 4/20/09So... were my fears warranted or merely a reflection of my neurosis?I think there's a strong argument for the later, but I am not one to impose thoughts on a reader. So, you be the judge. Here's an excerpt from a previous ...
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November 8, 2009
- What Fell Apart, What Came Together Published: November 8, 2009 Nine poets — from Eastern Europe, America, Russia and Germany — write new works inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.via www.nytimes.com I remember that day and what I was doing and what that meant to me. My father had escaped WWII as a child and imigrated to Canada. The injustices of this world, and the ...
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September 25, 2009
- This past Wednesday was the anniversary of the death of Pablo Neruda, September 23, 1973. Acknowledging his passing, crowding the streets with countless spontaneous funerals became the first public acts of defiance against the murderous Pinochet regime. Many of Neruda's friends, including the freely elected president, Salvador Allende, and the poet-singer Victor Jara, died during the coup or ...
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September 8, 2009
- This past weekend, Jennifer and I celebrated our sixth anniversary together! I had decided some time ago to take her to Asheville NC for the long weekend, as we'd never been there, and we'd heard it was funky and nice. So, off we went. I made numerous pre-arrangements, and the first (and perhaps the best) was that we stayed at a lovely (and incredibly expensive!) B&B called the 1889 WhiteGate ...
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August 25, 2009
- Wow, time indeed does fly when you are having fun. I have now been writing my humor column for ten years. That's more than 200 columns or some 140,000 words! True, a lot of those words were "er… ahh… um… hmmm… and oops..." but I'm sure there were some more excepshunal, er, xseptional, er, bigger words also. I got this opportunity when my good friend and fellow Montecito ...
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August 19, 2009
- I went to the card store on Monday to buy a card that I knew I would not find. Still, I dutifully walked down the aisle to the Wedding Anniversary section and allowed my eyes to stray over the shelf that celebrates twenty five years of marriage. There were a lots of cards on offer, full of marshmallow words, way too sweet and besides far too alien, because I guessed they were written by ...
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May 31, 2009
- May has been such busy month that we spent what time we could at Blackberry Corner, our almost 100-year-old house. It's our own private B & B.We celebrated being married 20 years on May 20 with a large leisurely holiday breakfast, white wedding cake with lime icing and pink roses, and a hike at the nearby Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge on the loveliest of days. We drove over to Seven Islands ...
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May 25, 2009
- On May 25, 1979 Etan Patz got to walk to school all by himself. However, he never got to school and was declared dead in 2001. He would've been 36 today.The Missing Boy(for Etan Patz)Every time we take the busmy son sees the picture of the missing boy.He looks at it like a mirror - the darkblond hair, the pale skin,the blue eyes, the electric-blue sneakers withslashes of jagged gold. But of ...
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March 12, 2009
- We live long enough, and we all learn to live with higher levels of pain. It is eight oclock on a Sunday morning. I am happier than I have ever been in college. I love plants. I love row crop nematodes. I love bees. Comes a knock on my dorm room door. The Zobels are there, they have been crying. No problems with word economy. "David died in a car wreck about four hours ago." I gather ...
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February 11, 2009
- Not every crime writer has personal experience of murder in their family but on the fiftieth anniversary of my great aunt’s brutal killing, I take time to remember Martha Giles’s unlawful killing on 12 February 1959, and one mystery that it appears I will never be able to solve. Over the last year, I have been piecing together the evidence of the Martha Giles murder which hit the headlines ...
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