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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.

wantering

I use the word which is the title of this poem in an e-mail to a friend who sent me pictures of the luscious spring vegetation in Vangroovy gardens, right now. (#1051) Continue reading

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what is left behind

Is it possible that we love our loved ones more after they have left? (#1050) Continue reading

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Review: Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily by Joanna McClelland Glass

I felt really good about Canadian theatre Saturday night. Joanna McClelland Glass’ script is a tour de force of playwriting, particularly of writing monologues, a form that demands a great deal of ingenuity from the writer. There are several instances … Continue reading

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