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Steve's Latest Blogs

May.16.2013 - 3:01 pm
A Nova program last night on PBS questioned if humans and Neanderthals might have ever mated in Europe, oh, some 40,000 years ago. Several anthropologists said it was doubtful. I...
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May.03.2013 - 1:15 pm
E. Charlton Fortune
A professional basketball player (Jason Collins) coming out that he is gay has, if not rocked, then shaken the athletic world. It has also disturbed feminists because when a star...
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Apr.02.2013 - 6:17 pm
Street of the Sardine
She's had a love affair with Cannery Row since the 1960s and actor and environmentalist Leonardo Di Caprio says of Eva Lothar's film ``Street of the Sardine,'' ``This poignant...
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Mar.23.2013 - 12:26 pm
A Seagull
Came across it on a sunny morning. A seagull, dead, appearing peaceful, its pose crucifixian like, balanced on a curb, in a red zone, I guess denoting danger, yet no visible...
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Comments from Steve

Apr.16.2013 - 2:22 pm
In response to: Blossom Time
written by Willa Cather. Has that same love of the land and the small but important moments of day-to-day life. It...
Apr.04.2013 - 1:58 am
In response to: Here and beyond
that if a bird enters a house while someone is dying, it means that person's soul will be free.
Mar.30.2013 - 12:41 pm
In response to: On Inspiration: An interview with Sherry Jones
and the author's tying in her writing to Sheila Miles' painting. A lot of Asian artists feel the painter should be a...
Mar.27.2013 - 3:40 pm
In response to: Death of a seagull
now gone, in the woods, Piper refused to head in a particular direction. The wind was blowing against us. I forced the...
Mar.26.2013 - 6:02 pm
In response to: Death of a seagull
talking, Belle, and Chekhov's legs look gangly, so I assumed he was tall, but not that tall, which is pretty tall for...

Published Reviews

E. Charlton Fortune
Apr.02.2010
Published by The Cedar Street Times
`` . . . beautifully written and brilliantly conceived . . . engaging, insightful, educational and most pleasurably entertaining. . . This is the way to teach history . . . ''