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Claire Murray
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Jul 21
Why Is Conversation Important?
Everywhere I go today, I see people on their cell phones. If they’re not talking, they’re texting, checking Facebook or one of their other apps. I’ve seen couples in trendy restaurants doing this between courses. It’s like everyone is with someone else, just not with the person they’re sitting with. I’ve started to wonder, is …
Jun 21
Chautauqua?
What do you think of when you hear the name Chautauqua, Chautauqua, New York? The first thing I thought of was an Indian Tribe. Was I wrong! Wikipedia says, Chautauqua was an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. …The Chautauqua brought entertainment and culture …
May 21
Memory?
Memory has always fascinated me. Why do I remember some things and forget others? Whenever I hear “Bring Flowers of the Rarest”* from Queen of the May, I’m transported back in time to my nine-year-old self, wearing my white communion dress and walking in procession down the aisle of St. Thomas the Apostle Church in …
Apr 21
Istanbul Passage: A Novel by Joseph Kanon
Outside it’s rainy and chilly and it seems like spring might not make it this year. There’s not much I can do about the weather. What I can do is stop wasting time and start focusing on what I’m going to write about for this month’s blog. I just finished reading Istanbul Passage: A Novel …
Feb 21
Freedom’s Daughters
Freedom’s Daughters I read somewhere recently, if you want to really re-experience a past event in your life, listen to some music from that era. I know whenever I hear Happy Birthday Sweet 16 *, I’m immediately transported back in time to my sixteen-year-old self. Recently I read a book that did the same thing. …