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Tilting at Windmills: Actresses: The Memories, the Inspiration…the Dream

When I was a girl, I loved watching how women were portrayed in old movies on TV. Unlike my wonderful ..


Tilting at Windmills: Sucker-Punched

So, there I was minding my own business when my In-Box pinged, and I noticed a “Contact Submission” from my ..


Tilting at Windmills: Philosophical Meanderings

This won’t be a ramble about how to remove ear wax with a blowtorch or polish your kitchen floor with ..


Tilting at Windmills: Ode to Dropouts

Thanks to Mom and Dad and Doctor Victor Aberdeen. Thanks to Liberal Arts and Science. To My Post Grad Dean. Thanks for ..


Tilting at Windmills: Kicking and Screaming All the Way - Encore

I have never been able to think about my favorite writers without imagining them hunched over manuscripts, their brains filled ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS: What Color Should a Fire Engine Be?

From time’s first day, all will agree That certain things are true. The grass is green, and orange is … orange, And, yep! ..


Tilting at Windmills: Wanderlust

Pack my bag, I’m going home. Good God, I’ve waited long. To stay away For such a time, Was folly … waste. Was wrong. Reserve a ..


Tilting at Windmills: The most lovely noble darlings

I got curious to find out if anybody – other than a few rare souls like myself – actually likes ..


Tilting at Windmills: McGubGubby

I walked into a building one overcast day When the sky was quite gloomy and grubby. And looked at the slots by ..


Tilting at Windmills: Don Quixote

It recently dawned on me that although many, if not most of you, know the origin of the expression “Tilting ..


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