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About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.

my student

I was holding the door for a grey-haired matron who glanced up at me as she passed did a double-take and I saw the look an ex-student gives the lights go on now we were caught teetering in the moment … Continue reading

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trial balloon

And it came to pass that the Emperor of the land of cAnAdA did so decree that there should be built at the top of the Golden Mountain an wondrous huge sack of leather that should contain the warm winds … Continue reading

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Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

A fresh view for these jaded eyes. Ten thousand performers auditioned for this production, and it shows. I have taken hundreds of grade nine students through the text of this play, seen it several times myself, and taken my School … Continue reading

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