• Stories of Oz – The Girl in Pink

    / January 18, 2006

    I am telling a story of Australia.  It’s out of sequence, later in the year, and anyway that’s how they come to me now – my thinking about that time isn’t linear, chronological. …

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  • Serenity

    / January 14, 2006

    This was his last Christmas. They’ve been telling him that for years, about 7 years in fact, since his sophomore year of college. This time, though, he knows it’s true. I don’t really…

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  • Hey

    / January 8, 2006

    Lyric for today: Workin’ 9 to 5 what a way to make a living And it’s . . .bum de dum . . . la la, It’s all TAKIN and no givin And…

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  • Christmas with the Wisconsin Fam

    / December 27, 2005

    A snapshot –   My brother just finished pounding out made up songs on our piano (he is a gifted pianist, with the somewhat tiresome caveat that every piece must be fast and…

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  • Merry Christmas

    / December 22, 2005

    Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool.Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school.To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to…

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