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Rethinking Goals, Editing Dreams

As you get older, you find yourself negotiating with the plans that you had previously thought were non-negotiable.  Your plans become suggestions, and then forgotten ideas. I decided that I would not let that happen to me.  However, I would … Continue reading

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Currently Reading: Portnoy’s Complaint

   Recently I’ve been trying to make it through the complete catalogue of Philip Roth.  Over the years, I’ve read American Pastoral, The Plot Against America, and Everyman.  In the past month, I’ve read The Human Stain, When She was … Continue reading

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Michael Chabon

I met a woman whose short stories have broken my heart over and over again for the last 15 years and saw only the withered neck and hollow stare of a woman who had wasted her life. I shook hands … Continue reading

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