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Bright lights, big city
You may know these words as the title of a book by Jay McInerny.
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Not the way I want to go
I’m an early riser.
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The last pointu
They said he was perhaps the last builder of pointus in France. He was 83 years old and lived in Saint-Aygulf, a small town on the Mediterranean almost…
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Our dog
Her name is Manon.
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Judy Hartline Elbring
Reading the New York Times’ Bestseller list recently, I saw Kristin Hannah’s novel, The Women, about nurses in Vietnam, near the top.
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December 2024

The snows of yesteryear
It’s impossible to be certain you’re getting what’s essential in a poem by the 15th century French poet François Villon.
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Music at Christmas
At the top of the list—Handel’s Messiah. By the German-born, naturalized British citizen, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). It was first performed in…
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Old faithful
I’m in my late seventies.
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Coming home
I’m a writer.
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November 2024

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