Write about your dream home. As I get older, my knees are suggesting to me that I should live in a one-story dwelling; all those years of Catholicism have taken their toll. At the same time, if I imagine the house that would best serve my needs I would think it would be something likeContinue reading “My Dream House”
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A Ghost Rises From a Smoky Past
Inspired by the recent prompt about being a good neighbor, I’ve been reflecting this week on some of my past living situations. Today’s entry concerns the room I rented during my second year in Berkeley. My first year I lived in the International House dorm, but I couldn’t stay there over the summer, and soContinue reading “A Ghost Rises From a Smoky Past”
Just Add Walls, And Stir
Yvonne Shafer, a professor of mine at Ohio State (I know, I should say THE Ohio State University, their official branded name), once likened a decrepit building she saw to the original set for Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, as designed by Jo Mielziner for the 1941 Broadway premiere. I thought that look wouldContinue reading “Just Add Walls, And Stir”
Like A Good Neighbor…
What makes a good neighbor? Good neighbors can definitely add to one’s quality of life. For me, this statement is mostly theoretical since, in so many of the places I’ve lived, I wouldn’t have described my neighbors as good. Even when they weren’t bad, so many of them were just annoying, and so my viewContinue reading “Like A Good Neighbor…”
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