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Why the World Wags

Martha Mattingly Payne

Reflections (and the odd laugh) on life, loss, and literature from a travel-hungry, baseball-obsessed writer with family ever on her mind.

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Me slurping up inspiration from Papa Hemingway at his namesake bar in Barcelona, a bar that brings to mind the setting of this story.

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Owner of a Lonely Heart

Today, May 3, marks nineteen years since we lost my brother, Ed. I’ve written about him before, often really, maybe too often. Sometimes I set out to write about something else and things turn to concern him, his life. Why? Hard to say. May...

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