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Poetic License

Posted on October 3, 2013

This blog is about reminiscing. And it’s due to the meeting of my book club this morning where we discussed various poems, their overt meanings, their covert meanings, and their unintelligible meanings.  It was food for thought.

For me, the

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Tequila Mockingbird

Posted on June 6, 2013

No, that’s not a typo. It’s the title of a little book I just ran across, and it made my day. The tagline under the title reads: “Cocktails with a Literary Twist.”

I can’t improve on the description I found

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I Am Not Alone

Posted on March 4, 2013

I can’t help it. I love all things about grammar: punctuation, parts of speech, syntax, parsing, diagramming sentences. And today is National Grammar Day, which means there are enough of us out there who feel the same way.

National Grammar

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Coming Even Sooner

Posted on February 3, 2013

About ten days ago I posted that I am going to become my own publisher and put my work on my website under a new category called “Potpourri.” We’re getting close to the launch date, and I am adding content

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Coming Soon

Posted on January 24, 2013

I have written for over sixty years. Poems, essays, children’s stories, full blown books. There are files in cabinets and files on various computers to document this statement. But considering my output, my publishing success has been minimal.

No longer.

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Wislawa Szymborska

Posted on April 14, 2012

Only recently did I learn that Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died earlier this year. She was eighty-eight. She was indomitable. Described as the “Mozart of poetry,” Symborska won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1996. I have read her

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Tea for Twelve

Posted on February 2, 2012

You’ve heard that old song “Tea for Two.” It was written for the 1925 musical “No, No, Nanette.” If you want to be technical, it contains abrupt key changes between A-flat major and C major and consists mostly of dotted

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What to Write

Posted on January 6, 2012

I find words and sentences and paragraphs everywhere. They could be about a sunset or a political rally or a book I’m reading. They could complain or compliment or merely comment. But I never have a problem coming up with

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Bloggy New Year

Posted on January 1, 2012

Some years I make all kinds of resolutions. Even categorize them and print them out. Lose weight, write more, remember to take your vitamins, use coupons. Other years I wing it.

I’m not winging it in 2012. Rather, I

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Closing Comments

Posted on October 14, 2011

I’m reminded of grade school where we were taught the five distinct parts of a letter. One was the complimentary closing (alliteration at its best). It could be “Sincerely,” “Best regards,” “Yours truly” or a myriad of equally benign statements

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