Recent Posts Tagged With 'offbeat writing'

• Confessions of a New York City Street Peddler (Part 1 of 3) – By Dr. Howard Karlitz

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 21:00 in offbeat writings, offbeat writing

  This is Part 1 of a 3 part posting which will be published over the next few weeks It’s February, 1980, and David Gordon is standing in front of a class of delinquent kids in a South Brooklyn juvenile detention center trying to teach reading. W...

• Pavarotti on the Ward - By RD Armstrong

  Posted on Sunday April 19th, 2009 at 03:00 in offbeat writings, offbeat writing

  As a first-timer, the surrealiality of life in the hospital was not lost on me. I had managed to go 57 years without a single overnight stay (with the exception of my debut back in Lafayette, Indiana in the winter of 1951). Now here I was flat on my ...

• Letters - By Adelaide B. Shaw

  Posted on Sunday March 29th, 2009 at 03:00 in offbeat writings, offbeat writing

  Letter writing, real letter writing, the kind of letter writing that gets saved by the recipient, not for posterity as an historical missive or a great literary creation, although many letters have been given this status, but as a remembrance, is not...