Monthly Archives: November 2011

Second Acts


F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives.”  I have been pondering that quote for a while. Certainly this was true for Jay Gatsby, the anti-hero of Fitzgerald’s most famous work, The Great Gatsby (1925). … Continue reading

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And Now You Know the Rest of the Story?


My mother had a thing for Paul Harvey.  She loved to listen to his radio broadcasts and in particular to the stories he told.  Harvey broadcast his own daily news taken from the headlines, filled with the foibles of humanity, … Continue reading

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Remembering to Whistle


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