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Words for ‘Silly’

I’m working with an illustrator in New York City to create a children’s book. It’s about a young boy, Philip, who feels threatened when his younger sister, Phoebe, shows up on the scene.

I wrote this story years ago, but

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Back in Real Time

I’m back. Back from a summer’s hiatus. And back with renewed purpose.

Doesn’t that sound lofty?  As if I were revving my engine and ready to start the next race.

In one sense it’s true.  I did rev my engine

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Signing Off . . . for Now

After thirty-three years as a late night TV host, tonight is David Letterman’s last show.  I’ve never watched late night television, but he must have been good to last that long. He must have had great personal endurance as well.

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Anne Frank

She wanted to be a journalist when she grew up.  And the truth is that while she was denied a long life, her journalistic skills have been heard around the world.

The Diary of Anne Frank details her life in

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The New Me

Perhaps it started when I stopped working a year ago.  Or maybe it was because I lost first place in Google® to a photographer of the same name about this time last year. Then again, it could have just been

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Harper Lee

At first I was elated to learn that author Harper Lee of To Kill a Mockingbird fame had written another novel and squirreled it away.  Mockingbird was originally published in 1960 in the genre of a Southern Gothic novel.  It

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Saving Kandinsky

Earl and I visited the Milwaukee Art Museum last summer and saw a spectacular special exhibit on Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter who is credited with painting the first true abstract art.  We saw his early work and could recognize

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20/20/ Hindsight

Who hasn’t said, “If I knew then what I know now, I’d have chosen differently.” However, the real question is: would those choices have made life better? Or worse?

This is the premise that two long-time friends explore in my

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Hate

I find myself using the word ‘hate’ a lot recently. As in “I hate rain.”  “I hate geese.” “I hate colonoscopies.”  And I’ve experienced them all.

Still, I think I want to tone down the rhetoric, as ‘hate’ is a

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Strange

This time last year I was working at Fred Flare, the online retail store my son and his partner owned.  And I was working with my assistant, E.

She arrived at our home today, just as she has every year

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