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.

Breath so again

This is about asthma. If you have it, you know. Continue reading

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The Irony of Cohen’s “Hallelujah”

Sometimes we should pay attention to the words in a song. Musing upon covers of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Continue reading

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Dad was a Drunk

Perspective on a youth spent under the tyranny of a drunk. Continue reading

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