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Writing, Alone
Wednesday December 16, 2009
Writing, at least writing anything worthwhile, is a lonely business, and I’m a lonely person. Some will surely scoff at that last bit. Others will say I’m whining. After all, I’ve been married nearly twenty-five years to a woman I’m absolutely in love with and I have more friends than any man deserves. Then again....
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Trading the Train for a Yam Boat
Tuesday December 15, 2009
After my old boss jumped ship at the end of the Bush Administration, her emptied office framed one of the wide northern windows of our building in the Forgotten Quadrant . I used to wander into her old office in the afternoons, my eyes on that....
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St. Linus the Evangelist
Monday December 14, 2009
ABC recently ran its annual showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas, one of the defining Christmas rituals of my childhood. After the cartoon aired this year, my Facebook feed overflowed with love for Charlie Brown, and for Charles Schulz: “Thank you, Charles Schulz,” wrote one friend, “for....
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The Artist at Home
Friday December 11, 2009
We live in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a pitted gravel road near a stable and a dilapidated dairy barn. We live in a cloud of red dust; it’s a losing battle keeping shoes and rugs and furniture clean. Sometimes I’m overcome by a fit of....
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Daily Bread
Thursday December 10, 2009
Now that we’re past Thanksgiving, we’re thick in the heart of the mega-cooking season, the one time of the year when those of us who ordinarily pass off rotisserie chicken and bagged salad as “dinner” suddenly start aspiring to, if not culinary greatness, then at least....
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Fiction by Larry Woiwode, interview with Joe Henry, art by Fabian Debora, essay by Barry Moser.
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