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Idle Musings about Simple Genius

So imagine yourself with a sloped forehead, a hairy body, and stubby toes. You are sitting outside a cave in ..


Tilting at Windmills: Mouse in the House ... Eek!!!

I once was calm and elegant, A credit to my sex. With nothing to disturb my poise … To bother or perplex. I baked; ..


Red Lipstick and Cufflinks: Mac Conner at the Delaware Art Museum

I just meandered through an exhibition of Mac Conner’s paintings at the Delaware Art Museum, and I am joyfully agog. Most ..


My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree - Chapter 10: Interrupted Interment

We watched as Jarvis Larchmont strode toward Meg, who was digging in the dirt. Although none of us liked him, we ..


My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree - Chapter 8

Meg’s parents despaired at their daughter’s despair. Even Meg’s father Arthur, who had liked dogs more than birds until ..


My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree

My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree By Shelly Reuben Chapter 6 – Ethan’s Best Friend Now I have to ..


My Mostly Happy Life: Autobiography of a Climbing Tree Chapter 1 - Young Samuel Swerling

Trees get to know a lot of people. The longer we live, the more people we know. And the ..


Interview with Shelly Reuben about her new book

EVENING SUN: Can you tell our readers what to expect? SHELLY REUBEN: Yes. Happily. On successive Fridays, ..


Another modest proposal

In 1729, forty-seven years before the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, Jonathan Swift – the same Swift who ..


Picnic à la February

I want to invite you to a picnic. It will take place on a cliff overlooking an ocean so ..


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