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Melody & the Pier to Forever
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Melody & the Pier to Forever is an epic fantasy by Shawn Michel de Montaigne. Come and read the first two Parts today!
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Swine Casting Pearls
One of my tutoring students is a senior in high school. She's heading to college next year, and I can't believe she's just about all grown up now. It'll be hard saying good-bye to her come next September.She's the personality equivalent, sans the ove...
Precious and Ghastly
I've been thinking of Gracian's observation that the truths that matter most to us are always hidden, kept out of sight by others. We aren't told these precious truths because others know how precious those truths are to us, and thus, because their v...
The Quill
This is how you do a rock concert right.I've watched it twice now.It's like going to church. But a church I've never been to: one that lifts you, truly lifts you, while, paradoxically, grounding you more firmly to the earth than ever before. Can art ...
A Novel Family
[The following story is true.]The word family has become, in the last 25 years, a curse word: I honestly don't know what it means anymore.I'm trying to relearn, to unconfuse myself.Every so-called friend and parent of that so-called friend, every gir...
March 17, 1929 -- October 25, 1984
On October 25, 1984 Kathleen Carol Helbert died of two terminal illnesses, muscular dystrophy and Louis J. Helbert, Jr., her ex-husband. Until very recently, she was the only true family I ever had.It has been twenty-five years since her death. She p...
Reflections On Michael Moore\'s "Capitalism: A Love Story"
I have had to learn to sew.Being poor does that to you. Things have to last. You don't have the dough to buy new stuff once a rip appears in your clothes or a hole forms in your backpack.But things don't last. Not under the morally repugnant model kn...
