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Deliver De-letter, De-sooner, De-better

Dear, Dear Post Office: My earliest memories of you are not of letters sent by Uncles and Aunts, but of pen ..


Angels on the Internet

There are all sorts of hypotheses about what happens to us after we die. Some believe that, like Clarence in ..


Reality reversal for a steamy summer day

On this hot summer afternoon, when I should be doing somersaults in a swimming pool, eating picnic potato salad, and ..


9/11 Memorial – A befitting salute

The 9/11 Memorial is sad. It is solemn. It is beautiful, perhaps in the way that dark clouds on a ..


Lester Atwell: A fine old gentleman

When I first heard the name Lester Atwell, I was sure I knew it from somewhere, and that he had ..


O. Henry. Oh, Hero.

I am a writer. That is what I am. That is what I do. If an examination were performed on my ..


A race of Gods

Last week, I was driving in the rain from Oregon into Washington State along a road that I’ll call the ..


Forgotten Bookmarks – A Valentine to used books

When I titled this column, I considered employing a more sophisticated word than “used” to describe the dear, dusty, musty ..


Stagestruck: Two Peters and a Crime

Peter Lovesey, British crime novelist and winner of every writing award imaginable, has created an exceptional namesake in the character ..


Selma and Fred. Oh, Boy!

So there I was, sitting at home on my computer, minding my own business, when I got a terse email ..


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