on May 10th, 2013 by mark
Baz Luhrman was going to make a new version of The Great Gatsby. I felt personally insulted. That’s my book, I reasoned. There have been no good versions of the movie. Paul Rudd even attempted Nick Carraway back in 2000. Awful. Though Mira Sorvino had the right look for Daisy. Allow me to back up. [...]
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on May 5th, 2013 by mark
Smoke, ash and cinder choked the sky after the Springs fire, which began Thursday in strong east winds of up to 60 mph, shifted course and blew back with an onshore flow. More than 28,000 acres burned, nearly 2000 firefighters and about a dozen aircraft were enlisted to the fight. The numbers go up from [...]
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on April 21st, 2013 by mark
Breath and memory. Spirit–that’s the week that was. As I write, I am reminded how things seem to be spinning out of control. Bombings, children dying, friends passing and opportunities shrinking. It is no longer a time of optimism and looking forward. Most of us are looking backward, now. We’re so afraid, but we have [...]
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on April 7th, 2013 by mark
The last day of spring break 2013 and I say good riddance. The girls enjoyed their break, as it should be, and I seem to have succeeded in keeping my germs away from Conni and Aunt Laurie who (knock wood), have so far not been infected–or maybe they’re the ones who succeeded. But since I [...]
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on April 2nd, 2013 by mark
Easter was also Shannon’s 12th Birthday and it was an extraordinary day. Dad and Joanne were here all weekend and they honored their grand-daughter with a pizza party with a few of her closest friends on Friday night. Saturday was a whir of things back and forth and we all went out to dinner on [...]
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on March 23rd, 2013 by mark
There were 3000 words today. Articles that needed to get written over the course of the week, but with Shannon’s flu and bronchitis, didn’t. Saturdays are usually days I try to do something fun, with the family out and around, perhaps–and we did get to go to lunch today together. But even before that, I [...]
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on March 16th, 2013 by mark
The trip to the Sequoias was beautiful. As we rose in altitude, the already mild temperatures grew cooler, the air thinner, more pure and the scenery more lush, more verdant. We had never been to the Sequoias before, but Conni, our exchange student, had. She traveled to the US with her family last summer and [...]
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