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.

Normal

When you enter a relationship, your “baggage” may be incomprehensible to your partner. As with everything, it takes serious work, even miraculous leaps of divergent thinking and understanding to get through to a working relationship. (#1025) Continue reading

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Remote

Winter imposes many physical limitations upon those of us who live in snow and ice and slush and cold. It has its compensations. (#1024) Continue reading

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The drive to the beach

K’ay suggested I write a poem about curds. There is a lot of dairy farming around here, mainly Holsteins. This has always been cheese country. We have always had a thing about curds: they have to be fresh, never refrigerated—crucial. (#1023) Continue reading

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