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Jun.02.2010
Last weekend the missus and I found time to see another movie, this time Robin Hood. The cast – as all moviemakers know – is as much a draw as the story. With Russell Crowe in the fold, along with Max Von Sydow, Kate Blanchett, and William Hurt, the movie would have make back its investment, even...
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Jun.02.2010
Last weekend the missus and I found time to see another movie, this time Robin Hood. The cast – as all moviemakers know – is as much a draw as the story. With Russell Crowe in the fold, along with Max Von Sydow, Kate Blanchett, and William Hurt, the movie would have make back its investment, even...
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May.27.2010
Malcolm Muggeridge (an old English literateur) once said that George Orwell “was no good as a novelist, because he didn’t have the interest in character.” Well, I didn’t need to tell you who George Orwell was, so you may doubt the judgment of the largely forgotten Muggeridge. But I think he was...
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May.12.2010
"Come argue with me - we shall meet and wrangle - sparks will fly - candles will burn to their appointed ends and owl-eyed waiters will sweep the floors at dawn as we reel out onto the glossy streets, dazed with thought, rapt with fluidity, compatibility, intellect, imagination: the effortless...
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Apr.13.2010
1. A swim in the ocean
2. The first sight of seedlings as they emerge
3. New potatoes - steamed and eaten solely with butter and sea salt
4. A trip to Wales
5. The resurrection of my Paella pan
6. Hearing Joyce Carol Oates do a lunch time reading in Galway next week
7. A new haircut
8. A Skype...
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Mar.26.2010
Yesterday, we talked about the creative process. Daughter Jess has some of those 'creativity' genes, which are manifesting themselves in today's post. Let's go to Wales, everyone!
There are more pictures. You can find them at my other blog, "Terry's Place"
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Mar.17.2010
One Spring Morning - From The Postmaster's Song, by Harrison Solow On the way to the university, even though she was running a little late, she stopped at the Post Office, which was just across the road from the campus. The Post Office was Mallory’s favourite place in the village. On pale November...
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Mar.16.2010
As a child the story of St. Patrick always caused a great sadness in me. The notion that a mad group of Irish marauders could arrive in Wales to attack Patrick's fathers estate and then in turn, bundle Patrick up in a blanket and haul him all the way over to Co. Mayo defied belief and yet it held a...
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Mar.04.2010
Excerpt from a letter to a friend ~
My last neighbours in America were, I suppose, legendary. Those on my street were Linda Hamilton (and for about a year and a half, her husband, James Cameron), Cher, David Letterman (before he sold his house, one of several) and Bob Dylan, before he moved around...
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Feb.28.2010
A very small part of "a day in the life of" in an excerpt from a letter home after Saint David's Day, 2007, in Wales:
"It was St. David's Day yesterday - the National Holiday of Wales. There are many many activities one associated with this day, but among them are giving and receiving...
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