Archive For July 22, 2017
I have crossed paths with some interesting men and women in my life. But this guy – Craig T. surprised me like a guru – came through and spoke much truth in a short time. Think he was a brother from another mother. – Jack D. “Golf…it’s not life or death,” offers Craig T. Nelson, star…
The working title of this piece is SCRAP. Basically, wisdom I hoped to share in writing classes. Sometimes I remember something, sometimes I don’t. Up to the student. – JDW “I’ve always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it’s a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores…
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are…
Saved a clipping from last week. After the G20, even more troubling. The following is an op-ed by Brian Klaas, author of The Despot’s Accomplice: How The West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy. President Trump’s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg will set the…
Richard Karn is instantly recognizable as the bearded, amiable co-star of ABC’s hit comedy “Home Improvement.” A Seattle native and a graduate of the University of Washington, Karn is a veteran of a dozen years on the stage, including such Broadway hits as the smash musical “Me And My Girl.” Richard’s mother, Lou Wilson, was…
The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you’ve got. – George Sheehan Just this moment dawned on him, today would’ve been his little brother’s sixty-ninth birthday. Man been dead since eighty-three. Mike’s obituary around here some place….
To be a femme fatale you don’t have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb. ― Alice Munro The night we met you didn’t look the way you do now. I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then the night we met. She was not…
It’s easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister’s fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ~Bruce McCall An excellent source of freelance income at one point were golf tournament programs. Deep pockets and “it’s all for charity.” Paid good. I have played…
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs. – John Major He rarely understood other people’s sarcasm. “Can I get you a coat?” The old man knew where she lived and he knew he had caught up with…
Now that I’ve survived, the life of a freelance writer brought me much joy, introduced me to amazing people and places. I did some good work, too. From 1995 maybe. – JDW So for the mother’s sake the child was dear, And dearer was the mother for the child. – Samuel Coleridge, “Sonnet to a…