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Another Offer to Help

I'm raising lowering the stakes. My long-time offer to deliver presentations and help you make other arrangements is hereby modified: If you're serious, I'll speak, moderate, and participate for no charge to you. You'll need to provide venue(s), a place…

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Presenting in Three Rivers and Fresno, California

My latest attempt at stand-up tragedy is embedded below. It's based on my 5 October 2013 presentation in Three Rivers, California. My presentation is about 30 minutes, and subsequent Q&A accounts for the remaining 40 minutes or so. Big thanks…

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Arts and Minds

The overdeveloped left hemisphere of my brain tells me one thing. My emerging artistic side tells me another. But before we get to the core of the issue, a little personal history is warranted. During my final decade in the…

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Identity crisis

Self-indulgence is only one of many advantages associated with having a blog of my own. In a rare attempt to avoid drawing further attention to myself, I'll not list the others. At least, not now. As regular readers know by…

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Into the wild

American essayist Norman Cousins wrote: "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." Personally, I've never been content sitting still, surviving for survival's sake. Evidence is found in the…

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Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Cameron Conaway is not a warrior poet. He is the Warrior Poet. I strongly recommend his memoir, which will be published next month. I reviewed an early draft of the manuscript when I was finishing my employment at the University…

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