Truth Without Humiliation

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
—     Eleanor Roosevelt
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2016	Original Thoughts
2015	If They’re Good Enough
2014	Three…
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2011	Not Deserving

 

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Does Blogging Count?

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
—    Albert Camus
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On This Day In:
2022	Practicing Barre Chords On The Guitar
2021	Givin’ It All Away
	Memories Will Remind You (Throwing It All Away)
2020	Does Blogging Count?
	Just Like You (Cat’s In The Cradle)
2019	None Absolutely Certain
	Destroying The Republic
2018	Maps For Those Difficult Times
2017	A True American Hero
	Or Desserts
2016	What #AmnestyDon Is Really Afraid Of
2015	What Are You Doing?
2014	The Ideal Man
2013	Daring Ripples
2012	Evermore
2011	Unpredictable Opportunity
2010	Giants Fall In Game 2 (1 to 6) – Leave PA With 1-1 Split !!

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Unreliable And Selective

But nothing in life can ever be cleansed completely of fiction because memory is unreliable and selective at the best of times.  To those who have been misquoted, misnamed, or mischaracterized, I apologize.  I did the best I could with the limited faculties I still possess.
—    Colonel Jack Jacobs (Ret.)
Medal of Honor recipient
From the Author’s Note to his book:  “If Not Now, When?“
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On This Day In:
2023	Still Trying To Learn The Syntax
	Memorial Day 2023
2022	Stumbled On This Memory (Of High Notes) (Memory Lane)
2021	A Chance Meeting Finds A Way
	Over 50 Years Ago! (Soul Sacrifice)
2020	The Magnitude Of The Challenge
2019	Still Tearing, Still Being Rewarded
2018	Nothing More, Nothing Less
2017	Memorial Day – 2017
	No Wonder I’m Smiling
2016	Thinking Science Fictional
2015	Dawn Is Coming
2014	Back When I Was A Firebrand
2013	Pen In Hand
	Word Up!
2012	Disturbing
	Trying To Keep Up
2011	Unreliable And Selective
2010	Adult-Onset Athlete

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