Year's End 2021: Looking Back, Taking Stock, Bumbling Onward, Ha!
Samuel Beckett liked his whiskey regularly. Toward the end of his life he had to forego alcohol for a time while being treated for a...
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David Matthews
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Joyeux Noël!
We can never wish family, friends, and the strangest among us happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noël, season's greetings too often....
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David Matthews
- Dec 2, 2021
- 2 min
Afternoon Wandering with Camera on the 1st of December
I took the bus downtown and strolled through Pioneer Courthouse Square where the city's Christmas tree arrived on November 5 to be fitted...
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David Matthews
- Jul 12, 2021
- 5 min
Return to the Museum and Downtown Wandering
In that glorious interval between retirement and pandemic I regularly ventured downtown to make the circuit of the Central Library,...
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David Matthews
- Dec 31, 2020
- 8 min
Year's end 2020: looking back, taking stock, bumbling onward, ha!
It has been quite a year. A year like no other. Unprecedented. Or has it? I wonder. It may be that what we have endured these past ten...
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David Matthews
- Dec 25, 2020
- 5 min
Christmas 2020: Livin' on Tulsa time in my heart
If my memory serves me well, I have spent every Christmas but one since Mom passed away in October 1997 with Trani and his crew in Tulsa...
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David Matthews
- Apr 25, 2020
- 5 min
Vaucanson's mechanical duck (I love this stuff!)
The book stack these days consists of Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, Thomas Pynchon, Mason &...
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David Matthews
- Apr 8, 2020
- 4 min
What comes after…
Who can say where we will find ourselves when we muddle through this muck and on into the muck that lies beyond? Whatever may come to pass…
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David Matthews
- Mar 23, 2020
- 5 min
How I pass my days these days
My nature, interests, and ambitions incline me to the solitary pursuits of reading, study, and literary endeavors, the poetry work, blog...
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David Matthews
- Jan 10, 2020
- 9 min
2019: Looking back, taking stock, bumbling onward, ha!
Late in the year I began to think of 2019 as the year of the rut. I followed my dreams into a ditch and dithered there. The data...
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David Matthews
- Dec 30, 2019
- 8 min
Livin' on Tulsa Time Christmas 2019
Christmas with the family never grows old. Once again we gathered in Tulsa. If my memory serves me well, I have made it every year but...
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David Matthews
- Jul 4, 2019
- 1 min
Modest thoughts on the Fourth of July 2019
Independence Day dawned splendidly in my fair city of Portland. A good day for a run. Most days are. If Facebook is to be trusted, Tulsa...
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David Matthews
- Jun 10, 2019
- 3 min
Springtime in Portland, dragon boats and farmers markets, the joys of wandering
Yesterday was a good day for the 9-mile version of the waterfront loop. I set out at 7, a bit later than usual for the Saturday run but...
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David Matthews
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
Livin' on Tulsa Time Christmas 2018: Coda
Thursday was a long day in airports and on planes...but, hey, what are holidays without a little travel misadventure? Multiple rebooking...
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David Matthews
- Dec 31, 2018
- 4 min
Taking Stock at Year's End 2018
The first full calendar year of retirement is in the books. The real work goes on as I try to keep faith with the dream of being a poet I...
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David Matthews
- Dec 29, 2018
- 3 min
Livin' on Tulsa Time 2018
Once again I am in Tulsa for holidays with the family. We kicked off the visit in classic fashion with a burger and a beer at McNellie's...
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David Matthews
- Aug 20, 2018
- 5 min
A Day in the Life
The days fly by, and the weeks. These days I have an awful sense that I am floundering with precious little to show for those days and...
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David Matthews
- May 2, 2018
- 5 min
Incident at Café Insomnia
I came across this story while trying to clean out and impose some semblance of order on the paper files. It was first published on my...
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David Matthews
- Mar 14, 2018
- 5 min
Sadness for No Reason
Sadness for no reason is how Thomas McGuane put it in Nobody's Angel. McGuane (b. 1939) was one of the young writers who generated...
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