The Ebullient Escritoire

Month: July 2023

  • Walking at Midnight

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    So, as it were, I found myself wandering the streets of this magnificent northwest city. Why? I was tired but no sleep would come to me. I had been writing a book and I came to a place where the two main threads collided with each other … and exploded to bits. You know, when…

  • Saving Arapahoe

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    Gennesaret Press announced Monday theupcoming release of Saving Arapahoe,the third book in the Johnny StevensPioneer Adventures series.The setting is western Nebraska in 1878.This 1st-person story is based on lettersand stories from the author’s great-grand-father when he was a 12-year-old boy.The Indians and pioneers didn’t always see eye-to-eye, and that led to some harrowing experiences! Even so, great friendships…

  • Psalm 86:11-13

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    A prayer of David. Teach me your ways, O LORD,that I may live according to your truth!Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.With all my heart I will praise you, O LORD my God.I will give glory to your name forever,For your love for me is very great. You have rescued…

  • A – Z (#1)

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    Ahem!Become celebratory dictators.Enjoy frozen glasses having individual jam kerosenelemondade melting nicely on phony quicksand, raisingstylish turmoil undervery woeful xylophonesyawning zealously.

  • Living Forever?

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    A desparation is in the air—I guess it’s always been there to some extent—that I don’t rememberseeing as a child. Maybe that’s just because children don’t think about stuff like that. Thereis the ever-increasing hum of a social consciousness that drives us in despair for the need to repair ourbodies, and thus our lives, so…

  • Play Hard, Play Fair

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    Not the Victory, but the Action. Not the Goal, but the Game. In the Deed the Glory. – Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE

  • What’s Happenin’ Man?

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    I’ve discovered over the past (nearly) twenty-four years of Parkinson’s Disease that I really don’t know what to expect next. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have learned in the past couple of years that old PD people get the same ailments that every other old person gets. (As an aside, on getting old and…

  • Grammar Friday

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    Apex, North Carolina, is a modest town—or at least it proudly thinks it is. There are somegood people in Apex. But, like any growing burb, Apex has its rough sorts, its tough sorts, its gruff,grammar-challenged sorts. Like any other citizen consumed with worry for our withering way withwords, I do my duty. I am a…

  • My new first grammar question

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    Ring! Ring! Ring! “Uh, hello. Who is this and uh … dost thou knowest that of which ye speaketh?” “What?” screeched a familiar, old, raspy voice. “Aunt Ruth? Is that you?” I asked, mildy annoyed. My clock was displaying 2:14 a.m. “My voice may be familiar, but it’s not old and it’s not raspy, my…

  • ABBVIE-951 Clinical Trial

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    ABBVIE 951I’ve been involved in this clinical trial for the last three years (since the beginning).What is it? Aggvie-951 is the injection of the drug that turns into dopamine (when it crosses the blood-brain barrier). The injection is sub-cutaneous—that is, just below the skin—and somehow these little dopamine-wannabes end up in the blood stream and…