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
- Nov 18, 2018
- 3 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, November 17, 2018
Resist Trump Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Indivisible Oregon I stand corrected. My first thought on the day after last week's midterm...
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David Matthews
- Oct 19, 2018
- 5 min
Laid Low by Computer Woes
The leaves outside my window are a rampage of fall color slightly muted by morning fog with maybe a hint of mist in the air. Out back...
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David Matthews
- Aug 25, 2018
- 4 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, August 25, 2018
Wednesday morning at Trader Joe's the young cashier asked about my Human Rights Watch tote bag. I told her a little bit about the...
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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
- Aug 18, 2018
- 5 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, August 18, 2018
For much of the summer I anticipated I would kick off today's birthday celebration with a long run, maybe even go for 15. Alas, I am laid...
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David Matthews
- Mar 18, 2018
- 6 min
Week's End Thoughts & Reflections, March 17, 2018
In an uncharacteristic display of good sense I decided to baby the recalcitrant right knee by skipping the Saturday run. My first thought...
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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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David Matthews
- Dec 30, 2017
- 9 min
Livin' on Tulsa Time Christmas 2017
The holiday season saw me take the show on the road to Tulsa again this year. Travel day was Tuesday the 19th, a cold, rainy morning in...
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David Matthews
- Nov 1, 2017
- 14 min
Recollection and Reflection
Trani and I had a great time with our cousins. It feels a bit odd to put it that way, given the circumstances, but 'tis so. We gathered...
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David Matthews
- Aug 22, 2017
- 2 min
Report from the front line: weekday 1 of ungainful employment
I suppose the day was eventful by virtue of being the first weekday of retirement from gainful employment...and Eclipse Day...and this...
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David Matthews
- Aug 13, 2017
- 5 min
The Dynamics of Parting
Three months have passed since I nailed down the retirement date. They have blown by. The days run away like wild horses over the hills,...
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David Matthews
- Jul 2, 2017
- 3 min
Though much is taken, much abides...
The deed has been done, the die cast, the existential leap taken. I pull the plug on gainful employment in August when I turn 65. The...
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David Matthews
- Apr 1, 2017
- 1 min
April 1 newsletter typos
Apology to newsletter subscribers. The April 1 newsletter has several typos because it was sent prematurely before a final proof of...
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David Matthews
- Dec 31, 2016
- 5 min
Closing Out 2016
The good news is that we put the horror of the Trump campaign and election behind us. With it comes the bad news that the horror of the...
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David Matthews
- Aug 19, 2016
- 2 min
Notes penned in haste on the occasion of a birthday
A man who would call himself a poet ought to be able to wax eloquent on his birthday...or at the very least fly off on some colorful...
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David Matthews
- Jun 12, 2016
- 1 min
A Bit About the Blog
This site is under development. Essays, reviews, rants, screeds, ruminations, and poems will be coming soon. Already the editors are...
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