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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
Posted in Living Literarily, Retirement, The Life Literary, Word Play
Tagged holidays, literary, March 4, March 4th, puns
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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
Posted in The Life Literary, Uncategorized, Writing
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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
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
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
Posted in Original Poems, The Life Literary, Writing
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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
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
Posted in Living Literarily, The Life Literary
Tagged adding words to life, Life, literarily, living, Words
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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
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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Tagged compost, first day of autumn, journal, literary, September 21, Words, Writing
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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