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The Least I Could Do
A few days ago on Facebook, a friend of mine from home posted this article about the preservation and safety improvements made on some of the slides at Riverside Park in my hometown of Independence,...
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“I Went to the Stork Club!”
One of my favorite William Inge characters is Irma Kronkite in Picnic. She’s a school teacher who lives with her mother and every summer, she leaves Independence to go to New York where she studies at...
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The Interestings
I do not think I would make a good reviewer. My reviews would be divided into “I liked it” or “It was…okay” or “I hated it.” The body of my reviews would be, “I don’t know, I just really enjoyed...
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They Can’t Take That Away From Me
In my first few hours in Manhattan, I wondered if this would be the trip where I learned that I’d aged out of New York. After a frustrating three hour Super Shuttle experience from JFK, when I finally...
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A Whole New World
Eric and I returned from New York a couple of days ago. It was a cold, action-packed 6 days and as much as I enjoyed the adventure, I’m glad to be home. I might fantasize about living in New York...
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Are Our Best Days Behind Us?
I’m reading the short stories of John Cheever right now. Something about his characters and themes taps into traits and inclinations that are at the core of who I am. Cheever had/has a fixation on...
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Around the Corner
For a play that I claimed not to love, I certainly thought about The Humans for days and weeks after my trip to New York. There is a line that I’m sure I’m butchering in my memory. I’ve probably...
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Tom, Get Your Plane Right On Time
A couple of weeks ago, like two seconds after I emailed my federal tax return, a thought occurred to me that I should make a quick trip to New York, I popped an Ambien and I stayed up a little late...
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