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World Travel From Your Armchair

We’re going on a whirlwind trip to Paris this morning.  Grab your Trader Joe’s pain au chocolat and your Nespresso cappuccino for this first video.  Are you with me?     Isn’t that the coolest thing?  Albin Holmqvist is a Stockholm art director and designer who’s come up with three other videos, if you want […]

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Ruminations

You’ll have to bear with me here.  On Memorial Day, I crushed 3 fingers in a wood splitter, causing a rushed trip to the ER.  2 nail bed repairs, 2 pins, lots of stitches later, I’m on the mend.  Except that I can’t do the one thing I need to do, and that’s type!  Well, […]

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The Craft of Writing

Always curious as to what another writer says about writing, I picked up Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing: A Novelist Looks At His Craft by David Morrell of First Blood (Rambo) fame.  He offers up a lot of hard-earned wisdom—in categories like writer’s block and plotting and structure—if you’re interested. He begins wit the […]

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Explaining E-Readers to Charles Dickens

A few bookish surprises for this beautiful Saturday morning. Rebecca Greenfield’s The Atlantic piece, “Designing a 19th-Century Kindle: An E-Reader for Dickens,” is a must-see.  Clever. Check out Milan-based street artist Guildor’s floating word art.  Ahhh.  Love it. Are you sleepy?  Here’s a dream come true…a book you can sleep in.  Zzzz… Peruse favorite final […]

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Sail Away

A little nostalgia here. I had Enya’s Watermark in college.  Every morning and every afternoon, on my way to crew practice, I’d turn it up in the car.  My car…a cathedral.  Her music…a sanctuary.  I loved the words, the sounds, the upbeat happiness. And I rowed like the wind.   [Post image: Sailing in the […]

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