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Book Club

Posted on July 3, 2008

I’m going on record as changing my mind.

I’ve always been a purist where book clubs are concerned. That is, if you join a book club and the assigned book for next month isn’t something you want to read,

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Blogging Along

Posted on May 26, 2008

It was four years ago on May 20, 2004 that I wrote my first blog. Called “Gauging Voices,” it was about how I listen to weather reports on the telephone. But I didn’t mean the standard variety. I meant that

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Great Web Site

Posted on February 23, 2008

Several months ago I happened upon a web site called Arts & Letter Daily, www.aldaily.com for short. It isn’t so much a web site in its own right as it is a portal to other sites that offer provocative criticism

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Short Story

Posted on February 14, 2008

According to “Smith” — an online storytelling community that encouraged reading, writing, and sharing — “legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

It

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Essay on Essays

Posted on December 5, 2007

I recently read an essay by Cristina Nehring about how the American essay as a writing form has declined in recent years. She argues that essays used to be vibrant, showing the true opinion of the author. Frequently, they were

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Information in Print

Posted on November 10, 2007

I’m always tearing interesting things from newspapers and magazines as I read them, and here is a sampling of what last night’s foraging found.

A small magazine that reviews new books had an even smaller ad on page seventeen for

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Thoughts on Blogging

Posted on September 12, 2007

I’ve been blogging since May of 2004. Back then, I thought I’d never run out of material. Today, I wonder. Because in the ensuing three years, I’ve pretty much said what I’ve had to say about the changing of the

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Word of the Day

Posted on September 8, 2007

I subscribe to a service that emails me the “Word of the Day.” Oh, I know others wait for their joke of the day or their milestone of the day, but I’m into words. And even when I already am

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Jane Eyre

Posted on July 25, 2007

My friend Judi and I try to read a book a month together and then discuss it. By default, we’re currently plowing through the 500+ pages of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, first published in 1847, a mere 160 years ago.

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Talk Grammar to Me

Posted on July 21, 2007

My son Kevin left for his home in Fargo today, but not before we had our usual conversation about the decline in the use of the English language. It was great. But if you hated diagramming sentences in grade school

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