Author Archives: riverwriter

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.

dot ca

[I am experimenting with oral poetry for recitation in public. This piece has far to go before it can go into a public reading . . .] dot ca I’m there I say bloggin’ on the internet for all today … Continue reading

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Being Rocco

[At Golf’s U.S. Open, June 12-15, 2008, at Torrey Pines Gold Course in San Diego California, 45 year-old Rocco Mediate was played to a tie by struggling golf phenomenon Tiger Woods, who was recovering from knee surgery. On June 16, … Continue reading

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Some friends of ours call the breakfast table recitation of ills an organ recital. As we age there are other lists with generic names: who’s dead who’s dying who’s sick who’s taking these medications who’s taking those who’s going down … Continue reading

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