I’ve made one of Julie’s1 short stories available below. Be aware that while Julie was sweet & funny, her short stories are made of sterner stuff. To download a PDF version of Julie’s The Turkey Stories in manuscript form, right-click on the next link, and choose “Save Target As …” Download: The Turkey Stories _____________________Julie [...]
Entries from April 30th, 2006
The Turkey Stories: A Short Story By Julie Showalter
April 30th, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Published
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Stuff That Meets The Aha, Of Course Criterion
April 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Aha! Items, Media
Design is a tricky notion. The concept is so malleable and ambiguous that many of us quickly retreat to the ultimate fallback position, slotting good design into that pithy but pusillanimous template, “I can’t define _______, but I know it when I see it.” For my part, the criterion that signals good design is that [...]
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Sumer Is Icumen In: Sunburn 101
April 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations
With the approach of summer, my buddy, the Duke Of Derm (Dr. DOD), issues his annual warning to each of his patients about the dangers of sunburn. Because he carefully explains the reasons and risks as well as outlining precautions, has built a bond of rapport and trust with his clients, and takes a empathic, [...]
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The Julie Showalter FAQ
April 27th, 2006 · Comments Off · HOAG Site, Julie Showalter
Rather than respond individually to emails asking similar questions about the stories Julie1 wrote and my story about how Julie & I fell in love, I’ve composed a mini-FAQ at The Julie Showalter FAQ _____________________Julie Showalter was the fiercely intelligent, sexy, and loving woman and prize-winning author, with whom I had a outrageously wonderful 20 [...]
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Julie – The Sojourn In The Wilderness, Part III
April 27th, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Story
Julie Does Wichita Falls Before leaving Puerto Rico, Julie1 somehow wrangled a part-time teaching assignment at a state university in Wichita Falls, Texas, a site she chose because it was in the same area as the postmarks on Philip’s most recent letters. The letters themselves offered little beyond the recurrent themes of Philip’s life having [...]
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Julie – The Sojourn In The Wilderness, Part II
April 26th, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Story
Puerto Rico As Hallucinogen Julie1 arrived in Puerto Rico with a newly minted diploma that conferred upon her not only the degree of Doctor of Philosophy but also all the honors, rights, and privileges pertaining thereto; a University of Puerto Rico first semester schedule of classes she was to teach; her luggage; and enough cash [...]
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Julie – The Sojourn In The Wilderness, Part I
April 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Story
From the moment Julie1 told me that she was leaving her husband to be with Philip, our lives changed in momentous, sometimes dramatic ways. Some of those changes, to be sure, were of the sort shared by everyone who was then (the 1970′s) completing an undergraduate degree, starting a career, and leaving home. And, I [...]
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Epiphany Of The Day
April 24th, 2006 · Comments Off · Bagatelles
Let’s keep expectations in line — I’m more likely to be on Route 14 to Dominick’s than on the Road to Damascus. Of course, the flip side is that I do not (thank you very much) require being struck blind for inspiration; the local newspaper and satellite TV evoke revelations sufficient unto my purposes. Thus [...]
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Sunday Puzzle – Not A Basketball Court
April 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off · Bagatelles
What Is This? A frequent feature of many publications, especially in their Sunday editions, is a puzzle that consists of a photo of something difficult to recognize because, for example, the something is obscure or unusual or the picture is taken in super-macro-close-up; the idea, of course, is for the readers to identify the photo’s [...]
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Oblivious, Part II
April 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off · Julie's Story
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory ~W. Edwards Denning This is – duh – the follow-up to Oblivious, Part I; I point that out because making sense of the following is abetted by reading its predecessor. I considered eliminating this psychosocial rant altogether because, despite a number of attempted re-writes, it [...]
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