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steven-belanger's picture
Apr.20.2013
Photo: Boston's finest rushing to help an injured runner.  This will be SI's cover.  From mashable.com. My thoughts, such as they are, on this week's marathon massacre and the FBI's and Watertown PD's amazing capture of Suspect #2.  There'll be another post soon that chronicles my...
steven-belanger's picture
Mar.01.2013
photo: from the film's Wikipedia page   I'm posting this entry quite a bit after I'd seen the film because I wanted to post the entry for Silver Linings Playbook before Sunday's Academy Awards--as at least Jennifer Lawrence should win something from that very good film--and because I wanted...
jodi-thompson's picture
Feb.27.2013
Early this morning I received a response to a job application asking for writing samples. It is a position that I'm quite excited about, so I was thrilled.  Moments later my husband arrived home from his early morning gym visit.  "Guess what!" I said. "You got a job," he answered...
dr-steve-mcswain's picture
Oct.26.2012
“The first duty of love,” said Paul Tillich, “is to listen.” As I think about Tillich’s statement, I find myself concluding that this may well be the continuing failure within most religions and among most religious people. Not the duty of love part, although that might be explored too, but the...
annette-talbert's picture
Oct.04.2012
When I was unemployed I would have days of inertia. I believed that nothing was going to change. I was stuck in my version of Groundhog Day. My mind played a continuous loop of, I can't make anything work.  Usually after hiding in this black hole for a couple of days, I would emerge,...
michael-seidel's picture
Aug.23.2012
Worked like a machine yesterday and today, beating the drums, boom boom boom, and resolving the resolutions. Had a few interesting and intriguing moments at the start of several minutes. People killing time would chat with me about where I was. It was as though an email had been sent out, Talk...
steven-belanger's picture
Jun.21.2012
photo: book cover, from its Wikipedia site   "1922," the first one, was very good, far outshining the other three stories here, but slightly disappointing in the final paragraphs, which felt comicbook-like.  The writing is King's best in a long time, even if the theme and unreliable...
annette-talbert's picture
Jun.03.2012
A balanced force is when two equal forces are applied on an object pushing both ways. Also they are equal forces acting on an object in opposite directions.When something isn’t moving the forces are balanced. When I was reading aloud the sixth grade science exam last week, this theory got me...
annette-talbert's picture
May.23.2012
I was filled with a trepidation.Butterflies were banging against my rib cage,but I didn't know why. Something was in the air,I sensed a change coming.I went to work feeling strangely uneasy.As the day went on, it was anti-climatic,no phone calls, no emails, no summons to the principal's office....
mailrangam-venkataraman's picture
Mar.25.2012
The job pays you very well It is your incumbent duty To do the job damn superbly Well concentrate on the job You have a fine family Lovingly you maintain it The job helps you do that In not the job really noble? Develop a different attitude It must enthuse you superbly Once that loving is well-...