Robert B. Smith's Blog

• Learning to Fly

  May 7, 2010

  •  I remember lying on the floor looking at the ceiling and trading my directional notions of down and up. When I imagined the ceiling as the floor, the entrance to each new room meant straddling a short divider between the two chambers. If the upside down world were flooded, it would be a series of shallow pools like ancient Roman baths. It was about this same time in my early life that I first ...
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• Oxymoron: Writer's Retreat

  May 3, 2010

  • Every April, I am presented with a number of deadlines. These are not, however, of the writer's sort. The deadlines I face are largely due to the weather. When spring comes around, the marina near where I live becomes a very busy place. All the docks that were pulled in against the Lake Erie winters get redeployed and all the boat owners rush to a parking lot that is filled, not with cars, but ...
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• Town Gossip

  March 5, 2010

  • Town Gossip I met our neighbor today  at the convenience store. I was for coffee, she for scratching a lottery card. Anyway, she asked if we were rich just blurted it out, like she always does straight-out.   I must have smiled, mostly at the predictable bluntness. Next week she'll ask again not remembering the old path, but she took the smile as a "Yes" so I had ...
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