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Throwback Thursday: Sweet Charity
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In May 2024, 14 months after launching my 5 a.m. Stories, I put my Substack behind a paywall. I take a dim view of writers working for free, and I had the idea of using my profits to help charities, especially in the a...
Who’s Ready for Some Special Effects?
(Streisand, Mandela and Mozart)
Some of you may remember I have written about eponyms — words that are derived from the names of real people. You know, like Dickensian, Kafkaesque, Orwellian, Freudian and so on.
I think it’s a fascinatin...
Throwback Thursday: A Photographic Memory
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This Throwback Thursday rerun pretty much speaks for itself. A loving look back at some photos and photographers that loomed large in my life.
It is a very symmetrical tale. The beginning comes full circle in t...
Wahoo, or Taboo? Should I Hire a Hawkshaw?
Social Q’s for Morons...
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Throwback Thursday: Just Raven About Kurt
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Welcome to fall, my favorite time of year. Crackling fires in the fireplace, apple crisp in the oven, bracing walks to the coffee shop, just to not order anything with pumpkin spice.
Three years ago, I wrote a poem in...
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Lifelong journalist, more than 30 years with Reuters, a wealth of experiences from interviewing Kurt Vonnegut to Dolly Parton, and much, much more. Traveled the world, now living in a historic Tudor home haunted by an actual Baroness.
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