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Urf!: July 2013
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Thursday, July 18, 2013. Steve McQueen in Bullitt. I can remember first learning to drive, slipping behind the wheel of my dad's sleek, new, charcoal gray Camaro Z28 with its T-tops and fat tires. It was a fast car and I'm pretty sure my little sisters were both in the backseat for that inaugural drive. I can't remember where I drove or for how long that first time. I only remember one thing: it was fast. Today's "Because I Said So" column. In The Commercial Appeal. I recently drove my 15-year-old son to...
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Urf!: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells: a review
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells: a review. Other novels by Andrew Sean Greer:. The Path of Minor Planets (my review). The Confessions of Max Tivoli. The Story of a Marriage (my review). Click it. Read it. Im a writer, some journalism and some fiction. Im a father of four, some boys and some girls. View my complete profile. Writing clips, bio, et cetera. The Memphis Daily News. Chapter 16: Humanities Tennessee. Because I Said So. Promote Your Page Too. From there to here,.
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Urf!: Believe Memphis
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Friday, May 24, 2013. This week's "Because I Said So" column. Is all heart. Believe it. Good seats still available on 'Believe Memphis' bandwagon. I was born and raised in Memphis, weaned during the 1970s on a steady stream of negativity flowing through a city whose dreams had slipped into the river and whose borders had become porous. Everyone, it seemed, wanted out. The grass must have looked greener in the next county over, a neighboring city, any other state. Labels: because i said so. Im a writer, s...
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Urf!: Reunion by Alan Lightman
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Monday, May 13, 2013. Reunion by Alan Lightman. A reunion is a coming together, a reuniting of like minds that have shared like experiences. At the core of REUNION (2003, Pantheon Books. By Memphis's own Alan Lightman. Are just so many electronic pixels.". Click it. Read it. Im a writer, some journalism and some fiction. Im a father of four, some boys and some girls. View my complete profile. Writing clips, bio, et cetera. The Memphis Daily News. Chapter 16: Humanities Tennessee. Because I Said So.
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Urf!: A syllabus for summer vacations to remember
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A syllabus for summer vacations to remember. This "Because I Said So" column first ran in The Commercial Appeal. On May 26, 2011. A syllabus for summer vacations to remember. Another school year has come to an end. If yours was anything like ours, the year was one of ups and downs, overall good grades, some conduct issues, large and involved projects and plenty of homework. School days are, by necessity, rigid in their schedules and run smoothly because of their rules. View my co...
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Urf!: The story of a fiction
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012. The story of a fiction. Warning: spoiler alert. Subtle though they are, there are characteristics of character and story here that I believe the author meant to be revealed slowly as a part of plot and structure. To make a point later on, I reveal a bit of that here.). THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE by Andrew Sean Greer (Picador, 2008). So, how to categorize THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE? THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE is a book about love and hope and fear and loneliness and happiness, just as that ...
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Urf!: Because I Said So: Keep 'Welcome Back' sign ready for empty nest
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Saturday, April 13, 2013. Because I Said So: Keep 'Welcome Back' sign ready for empty nest. My nest may never empty, not even for a night. S spent the night with a friend last night, but GK had one sleep over here. At the last minute, C went to a friend's for the night, so there are only three kids in my house as I write this. Only two of them are mine. I should probably feed all of them anyway. In this week's Because I Said So column. I write about my youngest daughter's trial run with a. My youngest da...
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Urf!: 5 Years of Saying So
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013. 5 Years of Saying So. In the spring of 2008, at a time when I was pulling my hair out over the willfulness of a 2-year-old and with running my own business, I was asked by Stacey Greenberg if I'd like to alternate Thursdays with her writing a column for The Commercial Appeal. About what it's like to raise kids in Memphis. I had been writing about my kids on this very blog for two years already so I said, "Sure, why not.". And I answer, "Children? On April 17, 2008. It was the 1...
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Urf!: The Path of Minor Planets
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Thursday, June 13, 2013. The Path of Minor Planets. THE PATH OF MINOR PLANETS (Picador, 2001) by Andrew Sean Greer is a book about time. It's the story of how people might go away and then come back, how they change or how very little they change over that time. Andrew Sean Greer's new novel, THE IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF GRETA WELLS, comes out June 25, 2013. I'm a big fan and have enjoyed previous novels THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI and THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE. Click it. Read it. View my complete profile.
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Urf!: Kids in cars getting coffee
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Thursday, June 20, 2013. Kids in cars getting coffee. Alec Baldwin and Jerry Seinfeld get coffee. For that one lovely time, there have been another dozen that I've taken these four misanthropes to a coffee shop and it's ended in arguments, pouting, spilled beverages, uneaten food and complaints. And those times are the basis for today's Because I Said So column. Of course there have been good times, but what's so funny about that? I've experienced both and today's column is a little slice of that. I̵...
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