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  • The Kitchen of Love: Eating Gimpy
    November 2, 2021
    In the kitchen of love,  only the beautiful are killed. Death does not frighten a true lover  for those not dying for love are already […]
  • Wide Spot: Revisionist History
    October 28, 2021
    Last night, out of the blue, an email arrived bearing a 43-year-old video. Sent via a chain of friends and relatives, the clip showed me […]
  • Wide Spot: Cook Your Potatoes
    September 8, 2021
    It’s a fallacy that deer don’t eat potatoes, or at least strip the plants naked. I guess I should be grateful for the stalks and […]
  • Wide Spot: The Answer, My Friend…
    July 27, 2021
    If you’re as old as I am, you’re already singing the next line in this iconic Dylan song.  You also know that the answer “blowing […]
  • Wide Spot: Fresh New Hell
    July 11, 2021
    The line “What fresh new hell is this?” was famously coined by the American critic Dorothy Parker when her writing was interrupted by the telephone. […]
  • Wide Spot: Moral Proximity
    May 27, 2021
    I am an avid reader; unlike my high-minded family and friends, however, I prefer novels to non-fiction. A well-written novel can introduce me to a […]
  • Wide Spot: Close the Language-Door
    May 6, 2021
    I thank my lucky stars (as my mom used to say) that I have a dog. Among other things, having a dog means that I […]
  • Delusion, Denial, Depression, Dark Night?
    April 7, 2021
    “Are we all going through a dark night of the soul?” he said. “That’s what one of my teachers said last week.” I have pondered […]
  • Wide Spot: Proximity Incontinence
    April 7, 2021
    I remember walking home from school through the autumn leaves and sunshine, hurrying a little. Six years old, I had a full bladder and 8 […]
  • Wide Spot: Feeling or Fact?
    April 7, 2021
    Two conversations and two questions: in the first exchange, a woman assured me that she was right in her stance about wearing/not wearing a mask […]

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