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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Inscription: Baby’s First Book
Dear ____, This is a book. You may think it is a sandwich with words. It is not. It is something better. Do it right and they will take you everywhere. Still, feel free to eat it if you get … Continue reading
Posted in Nonfiction, Something Else
Tagged babies, baby, books, inscription, knowledge, literacy, parenthood, sandwich, sandwiches with words, teething, words, youth
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Alpha & Omega
“I love her and that is the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted in Something Else
Tagged 42, baby, beginning, birthday, end, everything, fatherhood, first birthday, joy, Life, Love, meaning, parenthood
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Book Review: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Initially, I wasn’t sure how well this book was going to work. It supposedly dealt with the same existential issues as Dandelion Wine, but simultaneously tells a story meant to inspire horror. Obviously, it’s possible, it’s just a tricky business … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction, Review
Tagged Bradbury, classics, demons, fantasy, horror, monsters, Ray Bradbury, sci-fi, science fiction, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Supernatural
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Pieces from the Novel #1: Neon Soul
Watching the cabs fold into the horizon of the city, something squeezes me, knocking against the comfortable fog of the alcohol. I feel it, an uneasy melancholy begging to be let out, to be thought, considered, felt. I steel myself against … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged A novel someday, alcohol, contentment, Dreams Away, excerpt, happiness, ice cream, Japan, Japanese, night life, perfect, pieces from the novel, wandering, writing
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Book Review: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
I didn’t expect this book. Perhaps, more accurately it was Ray Bradbury I didn’t expect. Way back in school I had read a short story of his in some slim anthology of stories about I-don’t-know-what. What I do remember is … Continue reading
Book Review: A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
There are a great many things to hate about high society and I’m not just saying that as a plebeian proletariat. From decadence to the disconnect they seem to feel with the rest of humanity, there is no shortage of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Review
Tagged a woman of no importance, british literature, classics, drama, high society, humor, Love, oscar wilde, play, plays, sexual power, society
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Book Review: Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
Have you ever had someone you love scream over while you try to explain away something a gossipy middle-aged women told her in your drawing room? No? Me neither. In fact, if someone that claimed to love me refused to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Review
Tagged classics, drama, heartache, humor, Lady Windermere's Fan, Love, oscar wilde, paradox, play, plays, romance, truth
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