Author Archives: Yvonne
What If?
This morning, waking up from a night of strange dreams–lost to the netherworld now–my fiance and I lingered in bed drinking coffee and watching the Early Show on CBS. This is so far removed from our normal lives, lives filled to the brim with work, house tasks and animal care (one large hairy german shepard and a fluffy, not fat, 11 year old cat), that it was some time before we (I) realized what we were watching wasn’t The Early Show at all.
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The Wonder of it All
I didn’t study philosophy, but I’ve read a bit about it, and enjoy a nice philosophical debate. One of the best places to get into debates, or — for the more genteel among us — conversations, is at Carnival of the Capitalists.
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How ’bout them Yankees?
American sports…a legacy that endures, beyond curses and finger-pointing. The World Series got interesting last night…dragging the spirit world into things in a big way. Will the curse endure…or not?
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The Poet by Michael Connelly
How could a mere 20th century novel (this book was written in 1996, published by Little, Brown and Company) capture Poe’s brooding style, the grainy shadows of his descriptions, the sense of being trapped in a musty, forgotten well on a plantation forgotten by man and time?
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