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02/09/2025

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12/19/2024

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“A Jungian psychologist, a semi-skilled intellectual, and a dentist’s wife walk into a bar and …” well, they don’t actually walk into a bar, but they write compelling memoirs and stories about what it’s like to grow old, to contemplate death, and to sum up the days and years of that expe...

12/19/2024

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A collection of sixteen thought provoking, humorous essays on growing older from an often irreverent, smart, and lucky group of individuals. Here are a few memorable quotes. “NOT DEAD YET is a thought-provoking anthology from a collection of writers with a personal relationship to the subject." ~....

08/30/2024

"How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell."

- Christopher Hitchens.

08/12/2024

Identity Theory is accepting poetry submissions.

Guidelines for submitting poems to the renowned online literary magazine Identity Theory.

08/01/2024

The always marvelous Pat Couch Laster's booklet of August poems arrived this morning. Here's August 1:

Couchwood
under flight path
of helicopters from
Little Rock to points west & south.
doctors?

Thank you, Pat!

07/19/2024

Here's the website for my friend and colleague, the author Larry Laverentz:

Larry Laverentz’s life journey is marked by two pivotal periods that profoundly shaped his outlook, as vividly portrayed in “The Not So Ordinary People on the Roads I’ve Traveled.” His upbringing on a Kansas farm and the experience of graduating from a high school class of just eight in a cl...

07/06/2024

You will enjoy and benefit from the work of my friend and colleague Hillary Rettig, Author.

Greetings! I help creative, mission-driven people-including artists, activists, students, academics, and entrepreneurs from around the world-recognize and overcome the disempowering forces in their work and lives, so that they can boost their productivity and go

06/16/2024

I've been reading memoirs written by people who grew up in small towns -- for a variety of reasons.😊 The latest one is by an author who grew up in St. Clair, Missouri, I found it so-so, but the author describes lots of boyhood adventures that I could relate to. You might enjoy it.

Will That Be Regular or Ethyl?: Growing up Along Route 66 in 1950S Missouri

06/15/2024

A painting by John Mellencamp of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie.

06/01/2024

Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer" was a transformational book for me when I read it back in the '60s and remains on my list of "most important books to read." Given all that is happening now in our culture and politics, it is more important than ever. I highly recommend it.

The True Believer looks at the nature of mass movements: why they start, how they grow and how they end. Read the Summary here.

05/29/2024

Words of Frost, indeed!

...Adrian Frost offers everything but the truth to arrive at the truth if your prepared to experience the exact meaning of being sucked in and spat back out again. Don’t hesitate to trespass upon his escapegoating landscapes; an ever unfolding journey corrupt with myth mythology and magic, Frost s...

05/26/2024

This is worth your time.

Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.

05/24/2024

04/25/2024

If you're a cozy mystery fan I think you'll get a kick out of this one.

Quiet Please! Murder in the Maryville Library

04/03/2024

I am the lucky recipient of a Month of Cinquains from the novelist and poet Pat Couch Laster. Today's dandy:

HELLO THERE!

Two brown
leaves, still hanging
on the newly-greening
tree, flap in the breezes like they're
waving.

03/07/2024

There are two critically important ballot measures intended to keep government documents and meetings open and accessible to the public that need your signature. Signing these measures will protect our Freedom of Information. Please sign them. The petitions are available at:

The Carroll County News is located next to Clay Maxey Ford in Berryville (in a small shopping mall on Highway 62--on the right if you are headed east.

03/04/2024

Hillary Rettig, Larry Laverentz, Mary Hayat Krotz

The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, still has a few last-minute openings for writing residencies. Come join us for uninterrupted writing time.

If you aren't an Alumni, you may apply for residency here:https://www.writerscolony.org/residencies

Any alumni interested in scheduling this spring, please email Jessi Barfield at [email protected].