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How To Like It: November 2013
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Monday, November 11, 2013. I used to walk around Belmont Street in Chicago in November, waiting to meet Katie for dinner, freezing, listening to "I've Been Waiting" and "Winona,". Over and over. They were my two favorite tracks on the album, and the black foam of the headphones was like wearing cheap earmuffs. Probably, now, I would say I like "I Wanted to Tell You". Cait and I have gotten in the habit of taking a date night here a...
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How To Like It: August 2014
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Monday, August 18, 2014. Let’s Stop Asking Ourselves to be Fine. I called my friend Eric to talk about Robin Williams’s death. For fifteen years, now, Eric and I have talked about movies. He always has something interesting to say about the movies I like. And he makes good recommendations of the ones I haven’t seen. I can still picture the route in my mind pretty well, most of the way, though photos. World’s Greatest Dad. Alleviate...
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How To Like It: June 2013
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Two Books in 2014. I'm thrilled to share some good news. My poetry book manuscript, The Consolations. Was recently chosen by Mihaela Moscaliuc. For the 2013 Trio Award. It will be published in March 2014 by Trio House Press. So, The Consolations. Will come out at the same time as my prose memoir, Young Widower. University of Nebraska Press), which last fall won the River Teeth Book Prize. John W. Evans.
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How To Like It: May 2013
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Sunday, May 5, 2013. And not "ee-nah, ee-nah," the sound of the ambulance), and asks the fireman a series of questions to which he already knows the answer, which is how Walt started the conversation yesterday afternoon. That's the button that turns the mirror. Smiling, pointing up) "What it do? Those are the switches that make the hoses go. Turning the wheel) "What this do? For the man on the room who is trapped! And Jim's coming ...
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How To Like It: Vast, Encompassing Circle
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Thursday, November 13, 2014. Vast, Encompassing Circle. Poem Written in A Copy of Beowulf. At various times, I have asked myself what reasons. Moved me to study, while my night came down,. Without particular hope of satisfaction,. The language of the blunt-tongued Anglo-Saxons. Used up by the years, my memory. Loses its grip on words that I have vainly. Repeated and repeated. My life in the same way. John W. Evans. Interview, The R...
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How To Like It: There Is Only One of Everything
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Wednesday, January 14, 2015. There Is Only One of Everything. Last fall, I decided that all of the super hero theme songs were in my iTunes collection. They had been there all along. I was sick of toggling over to YouTube at red lights and in parking lots, only to burn through cellular data searching for the anthems of Spider-Man ( vintage 60s. Green Lantern ( cheap CGI reboot. Wonder Woman ( poorly aging 70s show of my youth.
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How To Like It: April 2015
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Saturday, April 25, 2015. The Very Tiny Universe Corner. We’ve been watching a lot of Star Wars recently, and talking about Star Wars, and posing all manner of Jedi investigations into hypothetical Star-Wars related scenarios. Was Ahsoka Tano. Alive when Darth Vader saved Luke. If Yoda always has a green light saber, and Luke builds a green light saber when he becomes a Jedi, why does Obi-Wan have a blue one? Which is to say, a who...
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How To Like It: November 2014
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Thursday, November 13, 2014. Vast, Encompassing Circle. Poem Written in A Copy of Beowulf. At various times, I have asked myself what reasons. Moved me to study, while my night came down,. Without particular hope of satisfaction,. The language of the blunt-tongued Anglo-Saxons. Used up by the years, my memory. Loses its grip on words that I have vainly. Repeated and repeated. My life in the same way. John W. Evans. Excerpt, publish...
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How To Like It: My TedX Talk
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Saturday, April 4, 2015. Last February, I was so pleased to participate in the TEDx conference at Palo Alto High School. Here is the talk that I gave there, "The Things We Don't Mean to Prepare For.". John W. Evans. Just lovely, my friend. So glad you shared that. April 21, 2015 at 3:46 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Where the title comes from). How To Like It" by Stephen Dobyns. View my complete profile. Review, On The Se...
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How To Like It: The Very Tiny Universe Corner
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How To Like It. Nothing is More Honorable than a Grateful Heart.- Seneca. Saturday, April 25, 2015. The Very Tiny Universe Corner. We’ve been watching a lot of Star Wars recently, and talking about Star Wars, and posing all manner of Jedi investigations into hypothetical Star-Wars related scenarios. Was Ahsoka Tano. Alive when Darth Vader saved Luke. If Yoda always has a green light saber, and Luke builds a green light saber when he becomes a Jedi, why does Obi-Wan have a blue one? Which is to say, a who...
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