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Hector and Me: My relationship with France’s greatest composer

This is a repost of a piece I wrote — oh my God! — over ten years ago, on the bicentennary of the birth of Hector Berlioz. I’m reposting it as prelude to today’s Symphony Saturday post. In the movie … Continue reading

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Roger is 61.

Go wish him well. We will update again in one year, when he is 62.

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Instaweek!

The week, in photos!

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Something for Thursday

A short song today, but a favorite of mine. Sheila O’Malley often sets her music player to “shuffle”, and then she will post the list of songs that it plays, with comment. I always look forward to these posts, even … Continue reading

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NASA's Hubble Finds Life is Too Fast, Too Furious for This Runaway Galaxy

NASA’s Hubble Finds Life is Too Fast, Too Furious for This Runaway Galaxy, originally uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video. Wow. That is all.

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

A friend asked this on Facebook the other day and she got a lot of replies, so here’s a penetrating question that reveals a surprising amount about your character and worth as a human being: When you brush your teeth, … Continue reading

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Nose to the grindstone (A writing update)

Time for a brief update on the writing business! At the Oscars the other night, Robert De Niro presented one of the screenwriting awards, and in his presentation speech, he said this: “The mind of a writer can be a … Continue reading

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A Book Quiz!!!

SamuraiFrog did a quiz about books. So I will too. Because I’m all about…umm…hmmm, what the heck am I all about, anyway…. 1. Your favorite book: This is always the question, innit? The Lord of the Rings (JRRT), The Lions … Continue reading

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Answers, the fourth!

Time for some more answers to questions! These from an anonymous reader: Have you read anything that you didn’t expect to like, but did? Any genres that you expected to not like, but did like at least some of them? … Continue reading

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Sentential Links

Linkage…or something…. :: Back in mid-February, our local newspaper social media guru wrote: “A good deed loses some of its purity when it’s broadcasted by the ‘doer’ on social media.” I thought this was self-evidently true. :: In dining establishments … Continue reading

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