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Jan.21.2013 What Next? Our house is six years old as of last year. Finished in October, 2006, we're the first people who lived in it. Two months after it was officially finished, two months after the furnace's warranty expired, the furnace gave us its first issues. A part failed and had to be replace. This...	Jun.02.2012 Charlotte @ War Didn't get my full complement of writing completed yesterday. Charlotte arrived. I hadn't seen her in a while. I'd been away and then she told me she didn't come in all of last week. Why? She doesn't like the changes and the new crews." I understood. There's been a lot of Beanery staff and...
Nov.23.2009 SSH...Thanks-Givin.. Thanksgiving I wrote this essay some years back but since it’s timely once more, here it is with a little tweaking… Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Andrew—- **** “Thanks-giving,” said Mr. K., my seventh grade English teacher. “Repeat after me: Thanksgiving.” “Ssshthanks give in,” I repeated, but the word...	Mar.30.2009 The Twenty-first Century Creative Arts Symposium Please Join Us at the Symposium "Art has to do with the sustaining and invigorating of the Personality. To be strong is to be happy. Art by expressing our feelings makes us strong and therefore happy." --John Butler Yeats in letter to Edward Dowden, 31 Dec, 1869 Among the...
Jan.19.2009 Better than fiction On this Martin Luther King Day, when our first African American president is to be inaugurated tomorrow, it seems that the new mood of the country is spreading faster than anyone could have predicted. Small, happy anecdote: Beloved son was rehearsing with his punk band in a renovated garage in...