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span style="font-weight: bold;"strikeTarget/strike Tar-jay Audience/spanbr /br /I was checking out aa style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theboombox.com/2008/10/03/apple-wins-in-copyright-court-itunes-store-remains-open/" news story about how Apple/a was able to prevent the price it pays... Read more...
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span style="font-weight: bold;"Poetry Friday/spanbr /br /Whenever I was involved in a school theater production, I always liked the downtime between acts during rehearsals, that languid limbo during which you could simply hang out and share conversation, while waiting to summon whatever emotions... Read more...
Published 4 days ago


span style="font-weight: bold;"Press On/spanbr /br /Am I the only gutter-minded person who believes the press should have gone the extra mile and written the state name out on this story?br /br /a style="font-weight: bold;"... Read more...
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span style="font-weight: bold;"Poetry Friday/spanbr /br /br /span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"Now that no one looking /spanbr /span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"by Adam Kirsch/spanbr /br /Now that no one looking at the nightâ€"br /Sky blanked by leakage... Read more...
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span style="font-weight: bold;"Poetry Friday/spanbr /br /Joy Harjo is a wonder poet who draws from her Native American identity (Creek) to compose gorgeous visions and metaphors. Her poem a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.renaissanceindian.com/Joy%20Harjo.asp"She Had Some Horses/a has... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago


span style="font-weight: bold;"Hamtaro no chimpira!/spanbr /br /Labor Day found us at the home of friends savoring burgers and good conversation. While the grown-ups ate, Snicky played with our friends' child, a seven-year old who is exceptionally sweet with younger kids. Here it is relevant and... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago


span style="font-weight: bold;"Poetry Friday/spanbr /br /Now in Technicolor!br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"The China Painters/spanbr /span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"by Ted Kooser/spanbr /br /They have set aside their black tin boxes,br /scratched and dented,br... Read more...
Published a month ago


span style="font-weight: bold;"Poetry Friday/spanbr /br /Yesterday I had the distinct feeling that summer is finally waning. There was a coolness to the air, a lifting of the usual humidity, something crisp and light. It makes me a little sad, as if I were bidding a friend good-bye after a... Read more...
Published a month ago


span style="font-weight: bold;"Recap/spanbr /br /Last weekend I had the pleasure of reconnecting with my good friend Jocelyn, author of a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.jocelynblagues.blogspot.com/"Je Blague/a. Jocelyn was not only one of my first friends when I arrived in Paris, but... Read more...
Published 2 months ago


For all the times that something could have gone terribly wrong, but didn't: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Read more...
Published 2 months ago


span style="font-weight: bold;"A Revelation and Poetry Fridaybr /br //spanYou know how people without kids walk into the houses of people who have kids and are absolutely flabbergasted by the sheer amount of volume that toys take? Know how those conversations between aforementioned people without... Read more...
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span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"Old-Fashioned Superheroes/spanbr /br /OK people. This is a must see, with the sound turned up. Its cheese factor is high, so bring your own crackers.br /br /What am I talking about?br /It's that macchiato-drinking, chain-smoking, a... Read more...
Published 2 months ago