Dawn Reader
A blog about books--about writing--about readers and reading--about teaching.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Flutter, Flutter, Sputter, Sputter, Mutter, Mutter
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I'm having One of Those Days. Things are ... misbehaving ... around here. My Quicken program is not doing what it's supposed t...
Friday, October 20, 2017
Wordplay Day
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A couple of words bubbled up into my consciousness the past couple of days--words we've all used habitually. But for some reason, this...
Thursday, October 19, 2017
That Weird Word in My Head This Morning
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absquatulate , v. I learned this word a few years ago (wish I'd known it my entire life!), and every now and then, usually when I...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Bananaville
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I eat a banana every day. In the summer, I blend it into a smoothie; in the cooler weather (i.e., NOW) I just peel and eat one before su...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Ben Casey, M.D.
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On Sunday I had a little note in my "Sunday Sundries" about that old TV show Ben Casey (1961-66), about how I'd awakened t...
Monday, October 16, 2017
Richard Wilbur (3/1/1921-10/14/2017)
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Dark news today in the New York Times --the announcement of the death of poet Richard Wilbur, a writer whose works both Joyce and I deep...
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Sunday Sundries, 161
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1. AOTW: This is an easy one. On Thursday night, coming home from an event in Aurora, after 9, full dark, ,no stars (okay maybe a few ......
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