What am I grateful for this Thanksgiving? Many things indeed, and of course not all of them are related to reading or writing. But plenty of them are: First above all, I am grateful for my God-given talent for writing (and editing). Without that ability, I don’t know what I would be doing for a...
Month: <span>November 2015</span>
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Far-Away Places—Travel There by Book
A comment made online in the wake of the recent tragedy in Paris stated how very much the commenter wished to return to Paris—now more than ever. It made me stop and think. While surely nothing can take the place of a for-real trip to Paris—or Greece or the Himalayas or Fiji, or, closer to...
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School Daze
I had originally intended this week’s blogpost to revolve around cursive (script) writing, and whether or not it’s a lost art or should be taught in the schools. I will still touch on that subject, but my blogpost, like Topsy, “just growed,” at least in my head, as I was formulating it. Here is the...
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Hail Pioneers: Roughing It On The Tube
My name will never go down next to Milton Berle’s in the annals of television, but I can honestly claim I was a sort of video pioneer. No, I’m not talking about the two TV shows I hosted and produced in very recent years on a regular broadcast TV station in South Florida. I’m going...