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Better To Forget And Make Do
“Are you ‘pleased, contented, joyful, delighted’? Do you feel ‘lucky, fortunate’? Are things ‘clever and fitting,’ ‘successful and suitable’ for you?” Leo Auffmann asks his wife Lena. (Leo, who is a character in Ray Bradbury’s book Dandelion Wine, was asked … Continue reading
The Strangeness Of Time
Right after I posted my blog article ‘As I Look Back’, I came across one of Hemingway’s quotes in his biography by Carlos Baker that I hadn’t noticed before. I’ve read this book several times since September 1980, when I … Continue reading
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The Miracle of Miracles
Do you believe in miracles and fairy tales? A miracle according to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is a wonder, an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, accomplishment. A fairy is … Continue reading
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It’s Terrible
“It’s terrible the way one loses things as one grows older.” wrote Simone De Beauvoir. What do you do when something, some phase or chapter in your life has come to its end? You feel it, you know it, and … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, Amazon, Amazon UK, author, books, change, childhood, children, cooking, death, development, drama, e-book, Ernest Hemingway, experience, fall, family, friendship, future, heart, library, life, love, news, old, people, publisher, rain, reader, reading, relationships, sad, Simone De Beauvoir, spring, sunrise, sunset, sunshine, winter, writer
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Is This My Destiny?
Ever since I settled in Montreal four years ago, bad luck has been following me like my own shadow. I have had one misfortune after another and just when I think that it is over, it is not. And I … Continue reading
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