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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.

Financial markets

Some of us parked our cars with headlights aimed at the foot of the hill, giving us a bright target area at the bottom. We headed up the hill dragging our wooden toboggans: a variety of sizes, my four seater, … Continue reading

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Tee shirt philosophy bumper sticker wisdom graffiti prayer render surfaces Im with stoopid F yu kn reed this UR 2 clos Bomb!ay swe ➡ et When is complex thought invited to attend this world?

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First Night

The bari’s laryngitis for his first time on the stage built a backstage tension no lozenge could assuage. The bass was getting nervous: he had a tricky part; in “Sh Boom” he sings a counterpoint—the timing is an art. The … Continue reading

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