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School notebook doodling back in the day
No artist, but the scribblings were at least somewhat cryptic. Maybe?
Feb 14
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“The Voyage of Life” has truly been a pilgrimage
Perhaps the most intensely satisfying and rewarding experience of my early working life and diverging career paths was a brief three-year period when I…
Feb 9
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Mayesville — a quiet little town
When I last visited 15 years ago, the Main Street was empty, the buildings in a derelict state.
Feb 4
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A modern-day history book fantasy world where the present is left behind
Every other month or two on a whim, I get the urge to drive to the historic district of Charleston, right at or about the end of sunset when it is…
Feb 2
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Cold embrace
Jan 30
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Revisiting a funeral, a garden and a wedding
One perfect late summer afternoon many years ago, I decided to get away from it all for awhile at Magnolia Gardens, about a 14 mile drive from where I…
Jan 26
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John Van Dalen
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“You can’t go home again” but eventually I found the place that was my real home all along
At the end of Thomas Wolfe’s novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again,” the protagonist, George Webber, realized, you can’t go back home to your family, back…
Jan 22
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Happy Sixties Songs: when the melodies, choruses, and lyrics were just right, and the good times rolled
With my cup of coffee in hand I was, as usual, starting to doom scroll on my phone when I suddenly saw one too many horrible headlines, and said…
Jan 18
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