Mar
30
MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPER
Of course, it's Happy Mother's Day and not Sad Mother's Day, but I just
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Mar
28
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1868, the Russian writer and political thinker Maxim Gorky was born, and I know next to
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Mar
26
RISORGIMENTO
"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." - Tancredi
Pleasantly surprised
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Mar
24
DIAMOND DAY
Maybe it's just me getting older, but I'm increasingly amazed by the small things that bring
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Mar
24
COUGHLIN'S LAW
"Douglas Coughlin, Logical Negativist. Flourished in the last part of the 20th century. Propounded a set of laws the
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Mar
20
BULLY BOY
“The bullied become the bully.” - Anonymous
Sometimes, I ask myself—if a rock 'n' roll star isn’
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Mar
14
GET BUSY LIVING OR GET BUSY DYING
The catharsis of watching The Shawshank Redemption is that it reminds many of us that we're still locked
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Mar
13
DESTRUCTION AND CREATION
When Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) lies shot and wounded at the end of Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High
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Mar
11
THE DISCONTENTS
In researching ideas for my first novel, I've been following Timothy Leary's advice over the past
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Mar
05
THE LAST DANCE
There's an exquisitely melancholic moment in Terence Malick's Badlands (1973) when Kit (Martin Sheen) and Holly
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