Ladies and gentlemen, I’m Holland Frome. And thank you for coming. This is a big night for me, and not ...
The Author's Meltdown
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All Soles Day
Walk a mile in someone else's less-comfy shoes
Here’s a useful exercise: If a problem needs solving but your ...
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Letters from Hamish
Hellfire on the square
(From the letters of novelist and historian Hamish Hepburn, discovered after his death by asphyxiation ...
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Communication Saps
The Mary Something Something factor
Somewhere I still have an old “B.C.” cartoon I clipped from the newspaper decades ...
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Autobiography of an Addict: Final Chapter
There’s a common misperception among many Americans that Europe is a vast pedestrian utopia full of smart, civic-minded liberals who ...
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My Body, My Soul
I’m out of touch with the music scene now, but in the ’80s and ’90s, I knew folks in local ...
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A Modest Proposal Toward a More Rational Religion
A while back on a local discussion board, someone proposed forming a church of fundamental humility and inquisitiveness, whose evangelism ...
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A Letter from Knoxville, On Mother's Day
Found among the letters of the novelist and historian Hamish Hepburn, after his death by asphyxiation in the year 2026:
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County Commission Voice: Get Your Sunshine Online
Moderator: With county commissioners’ ongoing inability to understand Chancellor Fansler’s ruling regarding their violation of the Sunshine Law and the ...
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Blood? Simple. I Leak, Therefore I Am.
A while back, for insurance purposes, I had to give up three large vials of blood and two of urine. ...
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