Keeping Your Head in (All) the Game(s)

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I have a dear friend with whom I periodically exchange books, articles and academic ephemera. Today in the midst of deliveries of food,...

Melaten - Cologne, Germany I had a dream the other night. Standing in a town square with a crowd waiting for the shroud-draped sta...

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GREY ANGEL Chapter One (first page) The water was searing cold. At 5 a.m. no one had drunk from the silver metal fountain for hou...

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I am once again focusing my literary abilities on my novel, Grey Angel. To that end I am just finishing a course on manusc...