Always liked Charles Schulz - maybe because I identified with Charlie Brown, lol Why's everybody always picking on me? Could be the motive of my male characters...

Selling out to Hollywood, Alan? I find this highly compelling :)

Your first statement is profound and disturbing, Arthur - because we are truly estranged from ourselves simply by living and growing older and leaving behind those younger selves. But if we aren't truly

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you're welcome, Arthur - I enjoyed it

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Yes, I read your story and see what you mean - it began in media res and ended the same way. It was a strange feeling of powerlessness - very Kafkaesque :)

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I know...I do that sometimes myself - I decided to end it where I did because it seemed a more realistic slice of life - we're not always sure in life how things are going to turn out, so maybe stories

Thanks, Arthur - this fascinates me too. I was taught by the famous Northrop Frye at the U of T who remarked to a student one day in class, "if you can't say it, you don't know it." It made me

Well, as Freud might say, sometimes a coffee is just a coffee, but mostly it's not ;)

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writing about it will help - why not try fictionalizing to create some distance , so you can stand back and see things objectively?

Thanks, Alan - he's ten years older - not much, mind you, I'm one to talk :)

ha ha ...you don't find many creatures divorced or homeless ...only humans it seems

a small temple, a faded relief and the ravages of time. We must not despise the day of small things, @slowwalker. It's questionable whether one can take a sacred thing from its proper setting and expect

She can fix anything except me :)

so true...and often our wishes are the smokescreen for our desires

That second one...I'd say the guy's part of Trump's legal team, but I doubt he'd let him in the country - might use his slogan though

Actually, Deb buys me flowers - she's very good with power tools - she'd probably appreciate a new belt sander, lol