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Selected Shorts Archive

June 2007

Afterglow: more Christmas memories.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

“My father wanted me to…spend Christmas with him. I cried. I didn’t want to go…I was afraid of strangers, and my father was a stranger.” –Truman Capote, “One Christmas.” Poignant and funny tales of coming home for Christmas.


Christmas in June!

Sunday, June 17, 2007


“In some ways I was quite an enterprising and far-sighted lad. The only trouble was the things I was enterprising about.”—Frank O’Connor, “Christmas Morning.”

A musical celebration of Mark Twain, and a sampler of Christmas poems and stories, touching and funny, naughty and nice.


American Icons Remember

Sunday, June 10, 2007

“Day after day we returned to the Louvre, and could hardly bring ourselves to leave at closing time. We had no money, we had no friends, but we wanted nothing.”—Isadora Duncan, “My Life.”
Lindbergh, Hemingway, and Duncan reflect on their lives in the city of light.


Love and regrets

Sunday, June 03, 2007

A good house guest is like an entertainer—Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock, Noel Coward. You know what a specific public wants; in my case, groups of two, with children. –Laurie Colwin, “The Lone Pilgrim.”
A quarrel, a musing, friendship, love, and baseball—what more is there?