Author Thomas Wolfe lamented it in his 1940 best selling novel, YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN. Everyone over the age of eighteen has experienced it, that small twinge of distance when you return home. For many years, I made my home…
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GOING HOME AGAIN
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Colorado, Oklahoma City, Thomas Wolfe, Wet Mountain Valley, YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Take one lonely farm housewife, a war bride from Italy, making the best she can of her life. Send her family off to the Illinois State Fair and stock show, leaving her with a weekend all her own. Add in a…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: Clint Eastwood, covered bridges, John Wayne, Meryl Streep, Robert James Waller, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, Winterset Iowa
A MONTH FOR DREAMERS
NaNoWriMo is in full swing. It started on November 1 and will continue until November 30. If you are not a writer, you may be saying along about now, “What is a NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo is an acronym that stands for…
Posted in Chat Tagged with: CBS, Charlie Rose, Chris Baty, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, writers
HAPPINESS IS HOMEMADE
On her kitchen wall, my good friend Carmen had a sign that read “Happiness is Homemade.” Since I believe that we all can choose to focus either on the positive elements in an event or we can choose to focus…
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THE MOUNTAINS OR THE PLAINS?
Lake Deweese in the Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado No doubt artistic expression is influenced by a number of factors. After living in flat, subtle Oklahoma and moving to mountainous not-so subtle Colorado, I’ve decided that perhaps geography plays…
