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MONDAY MORNING DISPATCH (6/30/25)

1)  An old creative writing teacher once  told me he read a short story that took place in an old house. As a writing exercise, he tried to write down everything he remembered from the description of the house from the story. He wrote about the wood floors and the way they creaked when you walked on them, the chipped and peeling paint of the walls, the doors of the rooms that stuck, the mold in the basement, the dust in the attic…

When he finished, he had nearly ten pages of description.

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MONDAY MORNING DISPATCH (3/10/25)

1)  I know I said I didn’t want to discuss politics and how sick I am of hearing about it from both sides… But I have to say something.

It appears to me that there is a significant portion of the American population that is treating our government as some sort of reality program, and they are voting in politicians based on who says the craziest stuff, who says the dumbest stuff, who is the most outrageous, who is a compulsive liar, etc. It’s as if people are at home watching a government version of BIG BROTHER (the TV show, not the book version) and going:

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