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T.S. Eliot for VDay I’m not exactly sure why without fail Elvis Costello’s “My Comic Valentine” pops into my head every February. Humming Richard Rodgers’ lyrics, believing in Costello’s rendition (though Chet Baker and Stan Getz works too) makes me happy, even as the years slip into decades. I hope that you too, dear Reader, […]
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Forcing Gratitude never quite works as well as a state of natural grace. Thanksgiving also requires honesty regarding reconciling the fairy tale we learned in the middle grades with the actual story of our country’s beginnings with respect to the treatment of the native Americans or Indigenous Peoples. Then there is all that food; elastic
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Is it ever time to make your classic book change? Do you have scary stories on the ready for your Halloween, past and present? On special days, those rich with cultural traditions, we often live the stories that we once read and remember. For All Hallow’s Eve, stuffed black birds with pointed beaks
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