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Year's end 2020: looking back, taking stock, bumbling onward, ha!
It has been quite a year. A year like no other. Unprecedented. Or has it? I wonder. It may be that what we have endured these past ten...

David Matthews
Dec 31, 20208 min read
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Christmas 2020: Livin' on Tulsa time in my heart
If my memory serves me well, I have spent every Christmas but one since Mom passed away in October 1997 with Trani and his crew in Tulsa...

David Matthews
Dec 25, 20205 min read
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My encounter with Alexander Herzen: reflectionAlexander Herzs on a life in a turbulent age (part II)
Alexander Herzen became financially independent in 1846 when he and his mother inherited the bulk of his father's substantial fortune...

David Matthews
Dec 15, 202014 min read
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My encounter with Alexander Herzen: reflections on a life in a turbulent age (part I)
It is just barely possible that we are not the first to live in a turbulent age. Alexander Herzen was born in Moscow a few months before...

David Matthews
Dec 12, 20209 min read
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Beyond absurdity
The longer Trump's election farce drags on, the more anxious I become. Yes, farce : [from the verb; or from farcer, French, to mock.] A...

David Matthews
Nov 20, 20204 min read
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Very deep divisions: within the country...and within the Democratic Party
High anxiety in the days following the election eased somewhat when Pennsylvania was called for Joe Biden while I was out on the Saturday...

David Matthews
Nov 11, 202011 min read
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