Politics | Politics
Apr.10.2013
She came closest to being monarchy, so it is only apt that they promise her a funeral no less than Lady Diana’s. Britons are terribly excited about her last rites, and many seem to convey that it is to make sure she is finally buried.
Her death at 87 should have been a regular and, one may...
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Apr.02.2013
She's had a love affair with Cannery Row since the 1960s and actor and environmentalist Leonardo Di Caprio says of Eva Lothar's film ``Street of the Sardine,'' ``This poignant depiction of the delicate balance between man and nature still resonates today.''
The late marine biologist Ed Ricketts ``...
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Apr.02.2013
Greetings!
I am delighted to let you know that my essay, "The Flip Side of Coming Out," has been selected as a finalist in the Truth In Words Contest.
In order to win this contest, I need your help.
I would be extremely grateful to you if you could first please
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Apr.01.2013
The minute I leave my last class before the weekend, I experience pure joy. This is a state of sweet freedom when my heart is filled with carefree energy. I call this sensation, which lasts for several hours, my weekly mini vacation. I have to say that I do...
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Mar.27.2013
One of the happiest winters we had was in the late eighties when we spent a sabbatical semester in Tucson Arizona. We drove from snowy Iowa City, where we lived, to Arizona at Christmas time. What I noticed first were the different colors of Santa Catalina Mountains and the smell of citrus bloom in...
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Mar.24.2013
I've been writing a great deal this week, sneaking out of work and my life to go get my fiction writing fixes.
Oh, the fixes are so good. There is nothing like a writing fix for me. It gives me the same lift as chocolate, the drunken joy of wine and beer, and the sated, spent...
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Mar.22.2013
Josef K, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's The Trial was 30-year-old when he was arrested. My professor, who taught us the novel as part of the course “the Existentialist Novel” in the mid-1970s, told us that Kafka probably chose this age because 30 symbolized stability and respectability. “...
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Mar.18.2013
I have always loved libraries, as a child I walked to the local library, a 30 minute walk, twice a week to check out books. In those days in Israel we didn’t own books but got them from the library. In my private collection I only had my most precious books, about 30...
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Mar.17.2013
I have my optimism glasses on.
Some people call them sunglasses. That's a good name for them if there's a sign.
But there is not sign. No sign of it. Graylight has overtaken night's pitch so we believe the sun is up there behind the clouds.
Good word, believe, a word of faith and...
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Mar.15.2013
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK
By the time you read this, the world may have ended. At least, that’s how some are treating the Sequester, which is apparently Latin for Apocalypse.
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