Tag: writing
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What’s in a Name?
To complete that famous quote… “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” – by William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. “Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that,…
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School Days
I like to say that I’m older than Kindergarten. There was no Kindergarten class in my local elementary school as I was approaching school age. However, I was enrolled in a unique class – aptly referred to as January Class. It began in January of the year before the typical Grade One class was to…
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Letters to Kate
The task of writing comes with unique challenges. For some, their words flow like a babbling brook, meandering slowly through serene landscapes or choppy and churning up splashy gurgles as water that dances and cascades over the rocks in its wake. Not so, for me. My own voice cannot keep up to the ‘splashy gurgles’…
