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Recollections: Rocked in Time — blues beginnings… by
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The boy rocked in time to the music, rump bouncing against the back of a ruptured easy chair. He pushed a mouth harp across tiny teeth, accompanying a blues singer over the pops and scratches of a fast-revolving 78-rpm record. The harmonica’s discordant moan caught the rhythm, modality, and feel of the music and bounced…
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A Father and Son Reunion by
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Prompted By Reunions

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Reuniting with an unrequited spirit
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Stowaways: Clyde, me, and the CHP by
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He nodded the beak of his perfectly molded, authoritarian-style trooper’s hat in my direction.
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Immeasurable, incomprehensible by
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Prompted By 9/11

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Like matter, gravitational energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
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Enuf o’ this Shit by
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Duck and cover seemed the height of folly, and I'd never felt immortal.
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From Scratch by
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You can make up your own play from scratch. It’s different from interpreting other people's words.
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Outta the West! by
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Prompted By Summer of Love

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We were going to a-go-go and the devil be damned.
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4.1 Miles and Three Hundred Fifty Years by
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Prompted By Immigrants

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That was then; this is now.
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Periodo Especial by
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Prompted By Theater

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Doing original theater is very different from dredging up the old chestnuts. Sometimes there’s nothing you can do but laugh.
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Science: a future retrospective by
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Prompted By Science

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Then, the ecstatic carnival of scientific exploration halted. But why?
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