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Posted on June 15, 2020June 20, 2020

Meet Helen. Sometimes, you just have to feel fear and then face it.

Sometimes, Pat, you just have to feel a fear and then face it.

Helen

I met Helen at the YMCA years ago. She was a daily goer as was I but there was one big difference, she knew everyone’s name, … Read the rest

Posted on June 14, 2020June 20, 2020

What’s Next on Your Fun Agenda 2020? Mine is a Podcast.

In January 2020, in the spirit of making New Year Resolutions about fitness and being a better person, I saw a cartoon where one character was asking the other, “So, What’s Next on Your Fun Agenda for 2020?”. For the … Read the rest

Posted on June 7, 2020June 20, 2020

Jericho Brown. A Voice I Need to Listen To. Again and again.

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Today, Eleanor Wachtel, posted an interview with Jericho Brown who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for poetry several months ago. He read his poem “Bullet Points” from his book, “The Tradition”.

When I wrote the poem, I was thinking about

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