Midatlantic
A blog about language, writing, and the urge to create.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Telling Caroline
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Picture courtesy of the President John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, Boston In honor of this week's 50 th anniversary of the assass...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
It was a very good year
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My mother smoking a cigar, 1959 I’ve just spent two weeks delicately dismantling the artefacts that make up a life. After a rapid dete...
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Words that Remain
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Rose Macauley (1881-1958) I am the archivist in my family. Our basement is full of tubs full of letters, documents, photographs, s...
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Friday, September 13, 2013
This Curious Light
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I recently finished reading a novel by the English novelist, Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975). A Wreath of Roses is set just after World...
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Tongues of Men and Angels
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This week I finally got around to seeing Joe’s Wright’s extraordinary movie Anna Karenina starring Keira Knightley at her least ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Blessed are the Peacemakers
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Senator Mitchell surrounded by colleagues on the Congressional Iran-Contra Committee - July 1987 On July 13, 1987, I was standing arou...
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Where the Sky Meets the Sea
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Bali Ha'i - a still from the 1958 movie South Pacific Across just a short stretch of ocean from Tahiti lies the mysterious island ...
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