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SkyWriting: Essays on the Art and Craft of Aviation by Byron Edgington 9/16/2014 8:19:41 AM
Price reduced. For a limited time, SkyWriting: Essays on the Art and Craft of Aviation is on sale: $4.99 E-book, $11.99 paperback. ... more
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Words as Food by Dorien Grey 9/15/2014 2:50:55 AM
Long before I lost my physical sense of taste, I fortunately had developed a “taste” for words—their flavor, their texture, the pleasurable sensations they elicited in me. I delight in and savor them. According to my mother, the first word I ever spo... more
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Silent Sky: From 9/11/202 by Byron Edgington 9/11/2014 2:00:05 PM
On the first anniversary of 9/11 I wrote this piece for the Iowa City Press Citizen.... more
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The King of Romania by Dorien Grey 9/11/2014 3:09:06 AM
Dear reader. I have for you a non-refusable offer to which I require your most urgent response.
I am proud to announce the formation of a new business with an astonishing potential for unlimited profit. Effluvia Unlimited is dedicated to enl... more
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Comparisons by Dorien Grey 9/8/2014 2:48:02 AM
Because we humans are solitary creatures in that our minds are confined within a single physical body, it is impossible for us to really know or fully understand anyone but ourselves—and few of us can really manage even that. As a result, we are and ... more
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Ladies and Gentlemen by Dorien Grey 9/4/2014 2:56:22 AM
On marching to a different drum... more
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The Delusionist by Dorien Grey 9/1/2014 2:51:53 AM
[Back from vacation to resume my Monday/Thursday blogs. Thanks for your patience!]
I’ve been a delusionist all my life. Never comfortable with the harshness of reality, I early-on developed the ability to pretty much ignore it unless it was ... more
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Great stories and a chance to help by Byron Edgington 8/25/2014 12:04:00 PM
Read great stories and help sick kids: It's a win-win.... more
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SkyWriting: Essays on the Art and Craft of Aviation by Byron Edgington 8/11/2014 7:59:01 AM
Read great stories and help sick kids, too... more
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Amzon vs. Hachette by Peter F Klein 8/10/2014 11:15:54 AM
Are there any good guys in the war between Amazon and Hachette?... more
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Running by Dorien Grey 8/7/2014 3:09:54 AM
Flight or fight, or.....?... more
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"It was the best of times, ...." by Dorien Grey 8/4/2014 2:24:22 AM
I’ve always taken little-boy delight in sharing things which give me great pleasure, in the hopeful if perhaps incorrect expectation that others will enjoy them, too.
But I note that as I grow older, it’s more and more difficult to directly ... more
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A Conversation with My Muse by Dorien Grey 7/31/2014 2:47:51 AM
You rang?
Yes! I just realized I've got to do a blog for tomorrow.
Relax. No hurry. You've got all day.
Oh, yeah. We know how that goes. I get up at 6 a.m., have a cup of coffee, pet the cat, and the next thing I know the l... more
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Mr. In-Betweem by Dorien Grey 7/28/2014 2:49:14 AM
You're probably much too young to remember one of the top songs from 1944, Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "Accentuate the Positive," but my mind's radio was playing it when I woke up this morning. ("You've got to Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate-the Pos-i-tive, E-... more
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On Memories by Dorien Grey 7/24/2014 3:06:37 AM
Memories are not what they seem.... more
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America's Voice by Dorien Grey 7/21/2014 3:02:16 AM
If you are under 50, you have no real idea of the impact one song, sung by one heavyset lady in a black dress with white trim, had on a frightened nation.... more
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"One Ringy-Dingy" by Dorien Grey 7/17/2014 3:07:54 AM
I've never been much of a phone talker since my teenage years—I don't do all that much talking off the phone, either, but that's another story. So when I moved back to Chicago in 2006, I decided not to have a land-line phone at all, and instead bough... more
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Thomas by Dorien Grey 7/14/2014 3:53:49 AM
I’ve taken, of late, to closing my cat Spirit in the bathroom at night with food, litter, water, a couple of places to sleep—he seems to like the sink—and a toy; all to prevent his sitting outside my bedroom door at anywhere from 5 a.m. on to sing me... more
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On Meeting Myself by Dorien Grey 7/10/2014 2:46:13 AM
I know, I know...it’s always “me”, isn’t it? … Well, yes, I guess it is, but you are very kind in indulging me.
At dinner the other night with friends, while trying with great effort and limited success to force my head up high enough to mak... more
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Worst President Since WWII? by David A. Schwinghammer 7/7/2014 8:01:37 AM
Is Obama the worst president since WWII?
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