Category Archives: The Life Literary

March Forth, Mr. Editor!

I have founded a holiday called March Forth. No, I didn’t misspell the word fourth. I mean for it to be a play on words, a pun. Long ago when our now adult children were little, I started celebrating March … Continue reading

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Obituaries: Life Affirming, Bite-Sized Bios

I appreciate obituaries.  Reading an essay by Gustav Leonhardt in an Economist magazine a few years ago reminded me that an account of a person’s life, written at the time of his or her death, can be very life-affirming.  I … Continue reading

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The Story of The Life Literary’s and the Daily Sentence’s Conception and Birth

August 28, 2009 Today I rushed to the Kennedy Center to get stuck there during a rain.  Black clouds sailed into view.  Lightning flashed.  The storm approached rapidly, but I made it ahead of the rain.  Naughty fellow, rushing away from … Continue reading

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The Idea River

Ideas strike.  Ideas infiltrate.  Ideas emerge. They also flow. Sometimes an idea flows into my brain, entering my awareness like a sweetly meandering river.  I admire the idea for a bit and think, “Wow, that’s great.  I’ll never forget it.”  … Continue reading

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Using every darned last inch of this costly journal down to the last line

I intend to use every darned inch of this journal.  I have these last two-point-five empty blank pages left before the whole thing is full.  Waste not want not.  Be frugal.  Be careful.  Check the balance.  Watch out, especially with … Continue reading

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Maybe Literary Isn’t Quite the Word I’m Looking For

I’ve been thinking about this blog lately and am wondering if I named it usefully.  Sure, it’s a sweet piece of alliteration, The Life Literary.  It’s also convoluted or backwards in a slightly poetic way.  You would expect to find the adjective before … Continue reading

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Happy Anniversary to The Life Literary

I wrote the first very humble, very simple post for this blog one year ago today.  Ah yes, friends, I remember that moment well.  There I stood (I stand to write) in my darkened home office, the monitor lighting my … Continue reading

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A Weighty Presence I Cherish

I read this in a Wall Street Journal article a few weeks ago: President Barack Obama sent trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama to Congress on Monday, capping months of tense negotiations and setting the stage for a heated … Continue reading

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First Day of Autumn: Another Full Journal in the Compost

Like a colorful, drying leaf that’s served its great purpose, absorbing sunlight and creating nourishing energy, that now falls gently down to earth, so I shelve another journal fully absorbed with my musings, blatherings, rough drafts, ideas; a smattering collection of words, some dumb, some brilliant, … Continue reading

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First Ink (Pen redux)

I drew my mightier-than-the-sword pen and spilled ink on the virgin page.  I came, I saw, I wrote.  This page, nay, this journal is mine! A humorous event:   I asked my wife, who was running an errand yesterday near the … Continue reading

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