A ROYAL MOMENT
It was March of 1983. I was living in Seattle, working as an actor and in...
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We were supposed to be in the New Orleans French Quarter a few weeks ago, once...
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During these last few months (when “travel” is defined as walking from room to room, and...
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(reposted from 2019) What I have always called, “the best day/the worst day” actually began the...
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Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s something else, but lately I’ve been obsessively fantasizing, and even...
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I’ve learned quite a bit so far, in the five weeks of quarantine; things about others...
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LISTEN and/or READ In May, in the year 1889 (10 years prior to the construction...
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I sit in my house during week four of this “season of sequestering”, this “Lent of...
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By request, I am recounting the story of “FERN SUNDAY” (an unofficial observance of my own;...
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I am, by nature, an introvert. It seems strange to people who know me well, but...
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