Category: Seasons
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Make It Rain/Light a Candle
You hear storms like this chasing down your chimney and beating on your rooftop. Cats get sucked into the swirl and dogs bark after them.
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Review: Meet Me in the Morning
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in Book Reviews, Fiction, Identity, Inspiration, Novel, publishing, Seasons, Sports, Time, Work, WritingMeet Me in the Morning is a quintessentially Connecticut novel, a quintessentially Ellington novel, the protagonist a nobody from nowhere trapped in a post-UCONN limbo.
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Notes from the Hibernation
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In December I had a falling out with my publisher. The less said about it the better. Now I can announce that Arlington Hall Press will make Profiles in Service available this week. Link coming soon.
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Rule of Light
Light progresses stingily now: pm stretches a minute a day from Jan 3-27, the sun’s arrival steady at 7:27 each morning from Jan 1-11.
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Down on Jupiter Wins 3rd!
Award-winning author reads from his short story Down on Jupiter. Who can resist Floridaman? Or rubber chickens? Or Marla Jean imagining her boyfriend’s back: “Tenderize me, baby.”
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Opinion Journalism
A brief pivot from Peace Corps profiles to pressing matters of climate change and opinion journalism.
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Hope Amid Distress
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Throughout his tidy narrative Tidwell grapples with the most universally disheartening issue of our day without sending the reader into despair. Rather than spread the disease of hopelessness, we hear voices of reason who’ve dedicated their lives to climate action, in their own backyards and across the neighborhood.
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Wisteria
Captured along the Shiloh Greenway in Morrisville North Carolina. Lots of pollen and sunshine yesterday. Thunderstorms and heavy rain in the evening. The streets looked painted yellow this morning and the pollen count remains elevated. Touring UNC and have thoughts on that to share tomorrow. ##
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