Christmas 2017 - Mrs. Christmas: Gifts from This Writer
Christmas is the time of giving and sharing. I feel especially generous this Christmas season, and I wish to give to readers of this...
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Dec 21, 2017
Holiday 2017 - Making Spirits Bright
Making Spirits Bright: Dean’s Take on Peace on Earth The song “Peace on Earth” was written by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke for the Disney...
Nov 24, 2017
Late-November 2017 - Black November
“Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” There is no way to describe “shoe love” to a man. The emotional transport truly does defy...
Nov 20, 2017
Mid-November 2017 - Giving Thanks
Giving Thanks I am giving thanks for the godsend of consequence, the harvest of coincidence, the friend who came by happenstance and...
Nov 11, 2017
Veteran’s Day 2017 - The American Hero
The American Hero For just one moment he felt the thrill of the battle the daring to go desire compelled him to face fear and know the...
Oct 31, 2017
The Happy Fest of October 2017
All-Hallows’-Eve : The Celebration of Truth It was a controversy: Halloween in the 1990s. Everything was a controversy back then, at...
Oct 20, 2017
Flannel Fest 2017 - The Flannel Beagle
20 October 2017 In honor of the Second Annual Flannel Fest at the local sporting goods store, we proudly present Flannel Hound! Chance...
Oct 15, 2017
Mid-October 2017 - Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier: I Remember Him Well Chevalier — the name itself fascinates. In French, it means “knight”; in English, a chevalier, the...
Oct 10, 2017
Frédéric Chopin - The Spirit of Homecoming
October 2017 Frédéric François Chopin was not fully French nor did he consider himself French. In fact (and fact is difficult to...
Sep 9, 2017
Back to School 2017 - Off with His Head!
9 September 2017 Last year, I began to read the new section in my Norton Anthology of English Literature (Eighth Edition, Volume 1)....
Sep 5, 2017
September 2017 - The Honor of the Harvest Moon
I recently purchased an art treasure from Japan, a bunny created by Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933–2009). This man was one of the world’s...
Sep 4, 2017
Sewing Project
Labor Day 2017 I have thus far not written any essay that is patently political, but I think it is time, in the name of fashion, to cry...
Aug 15, 2017
Otis Redding and the Soul of Art
Mid-August 2017 The ultimate of soul singers for me, Otis Redding idolized Sam Cooke, whose voice was more supple; and Little Richard,...
Aug 7, 2017
Dog Days of Summer 2017 - Beagle Stories
Everywhere we go with Chance, which is to say everywhere that he goes with us, there are people telling beagle stories. It seems that...
Aug 1, 2017
August 2017 - Think Pink
Think Pink: The Period Not the punctuation mark but — the monthly female event for women of childbearing age. It has been my experience...
Jul 24, 2017
Hockey Summer Camp 2017 - Patrick Marleau
Shark Bait And so it happened. Patrick Marleau wore out not his welcome but those few carpets in his home in San Jose. He has jumped the...
Jul 14, 2017
Bastille Day 2017 - Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf, Broken-Wing Sparrow It was always an incongruity for me, the love that my French-Algerian tutor of Parisian French held for...
Jul 4, 2017
Independence Day 2017 - Ins and Outs
My aversion to joining any group is so intense that when I briefly joined an online current-events commentary club, one of my first...
Jul 3, 2017
July 2017 - The Great Crayola Controversy
This past week, Dear Husband was clearing out his desk during the final days before he got out of the Pen: Retirement after Federal...
Jul 1, 2017
Summer 2017 - The Death of the Mall
Friends and Family - Summer Shopping The Death of the Mall Balzac wrote, “A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity,” and so I shall...
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