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Eavesdropping in Holladay

As a reporter and writer, sometimes I need to walk the streets of effervescent Holladay. For the purposes of this article, it was to...

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COVID-19 - A Time of Poets and Philosophers

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E.M. Forster’s, "The Machine Stops" More Relevant than Ever

I had the privilege of being an adaptation consultant for the documentary film, There, currently in production. There is loosely adapted...

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The Silver in Your Pocket Ain’t No Measure of a Man – Survivor's "Poor Man's Son"

Jim Peterick of Survivor wrote "Poor Man's Son." Let me say up front that I believe poetry is the ultimate verbal expression; however,...

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Blessed are the Peacemakers

I lived in Manhattan from 1999-2004 and witnessed firsthand the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11. I was also one of the thousands on...

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Barber's Adagio for Strings - An Ascension and Explication of Grief

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings has been described as " . . . a stepwise motion, like the hesitant climbing of stairs" by Johanna...

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Fulfilling the Measure of Our Creation - How Animals Embody This Philosophy

As much as I thought I was an animal lover, I never believed that I would write a blog entry about my dog. But my wire fox terrier,...

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Literature and the Online World: One English Major’s Descent into Reading Headings and Bullet Points

Photo courtesy of publicdomainpictures.net I was a good English major; I read Keats’s letters and poems carefully and obtained a Creative...

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