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Sharon Olds

The first poem of Sharon Olds’s I ever read came from my brother Tim.  It was a pretty blow-you-away, killer kind of poem called “I Go Back to May 1937.”  You can read it here.  It’s one of the great and damning poems read during Sean Penn’s movie Into the Wild. Of course I acquired […]

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The Power of Now, Part 2

I keep arguing with this book as I’m reading it, but Tolle makes some good points.  Things to think about. I agree that we only have the now, the present moment.  If you believe in God and eternity, you have that, too, but you can’t live that part of your life now.  You can only […]

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Sad Puppy & The Power of Now

So, Liliana and I are flipping through magazines that I haven’t read yet, and she comes upon an old Marie Claire that’s left over from traveling to the Ukraine.  All of a sudden, she’s by my side, her head bent over the glossy page, her face inches from it, and she’s pointing to the picture […]

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Eve: A Novel

I’ve been thinking about how people will receive Eve.  An artist always contemplates these things, I guess, before their art’s actual debut.  [In my case, it’s not until January.] Certainly, not everyone will like the novel, and that’s to be expected.  If you read yesterday’s post, you’ll remember how I explained that everyone has different […]

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Motto for Life

It’s scary how impressionable children are.  You parents already know that.  Liliana copies everything we do, and to see it mirrored back at us in such a way is hilarious if it’s good and disquieting if it’s not. I have always thought Micah 6:8 (Micah is a book in the Bible, for those of you […]

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