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Know When to Say When

March 10, 2010

When I was a kid if I started a book, I finished a book.  I’m not sure why but it felt like quitting if you didn’t finish the whole thing, a failure.  The problem of course is that you’ll spend a lot of time reading stuff you don’t like or stuff that’s simply crap. 
It took [...]

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Movies That Do A Book Justice

March 1, 2010

Cover of Shutter Island: A NovelWhen a movie comes out and it looks interesting, I try to find out if it was based on a novel. If it was, I make it a point to read the book before seeing the movie. Currently, I am racing through Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island. The writing is inspired, [...]

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“Only the educated are free.” —Epictetus

February 19, 2010

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These are tough times in the world of education. It seems hard to believe that just a few short years ago a person with solid teaching credentials could get a job practically anywhere. (Or at least this was true in the part of the country where I live.) How quickly things have changed. [...]

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Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Out: Timothy Leary’s Advice Twisted to Talk to Writers

January 18, 2010

Okay, “Turn On. Tune In. Drop Out.” Is the correct phrasing but while trying to get to sleep the other night, it occurred to me that if we tweak Leary’s counterculture contribution, we can use it to help us as writers:
Turn Off: One of my New Year’s resolutions was to keep the television off until [...]

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Bah, Humbug!

December 16, 2009

I don’t like Christmas. Okay, that’s not entirely true. To be precise, I don’t like what Christmas has become: the slick, sappy, overly-commercialized capitalistic extravaganza that now constitutes the holiday season—a season that begins shortly after Labor Day and runs through the end of January.
I didn’t always feel this way. Looking back, I have some [...]

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