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Fly Bys Over Home Plate

Saturday afternoon the doves do formation fly bys over home plate where weekdays trainees in F-16 fighters  from Luke Air Force Base streak overhead. Cr-acckk! Home run! The Diamondbacks tie it up with the Royals, 10 – 10 at the top of the eighth.

Upsetting Traditions

Last Christmas we upset tradition. We abandoned our adult children, cold-shouldered Santa and slipped off to Barbados. Our escapade had the intended consequences. It pared the Christmas craziness down to zero. This year we are starting over; redefining traditions in more satisfying ways. We’ve trimmed the high calorie Christmas—the shopping spree, the 12 foot tree, the cooking and baking, the wrapping and mailing—to the small plate version, a main course and two sides.

 

Cloud Atlas Shrugged

Movie reviews set us up to believe that Cloud Atlas is unique in the way it zips us back and forth through time and shows us how people and events connect from era to era, but Jim Broadbent’s character, sitting at his typewriter, gives us a clue—this movie is the equivalent of literary fiction in structure; it uses “tricksy” devices, flashbacks, foreshadows, repetition and such to make a point that, in the end, is not all that profound: everything is connected.

 

Food for Thought

The argument between science and spirit is an old one. In writers’ group we analyzed E.M.Forster’s short story The Other Side of the Hedge where a man strides a dusty road toward an unknown goal. He tires of the effort and monotony of his journey, sits down, and feels the breath of fresh air blowing gently through a hedge alongside the road. Curious, he crawls through the hedge and discovers what we might call a parallel universe (and some would call Eden or heaven) on the other side where time stands still and people live joyfully in the moment. Perplexed, he says:

Keeping Focus

Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (adapted by Bill Rauch and Tracy Young) might be a stretch for those who view theatre as entertainment; however, I come to praise the effort, not to bury it. Acknowledging that it is a two-Tylenol experience, it’s worth the headache.

Crafting a Novel Around a Real Person: An Interview with Sydney Avey – WRITE NOW!

Crafting a Novel Around a Real Person: An Interview with Sydney Avey – WRITE NOW!

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